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Viveka Chudamani The teacher and the Adept.
Viveka chudamani. (8-7) Last week at the Drepung Loseling Monastery we practised compassion. The concept was to view our thoughts and actions, without judgement or attachment. This is very close to Yogarudha, mentioned in the Bhagwat Gita. A state where a person is not attached either to the objects, or to the action. This is …
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Arguments on Argument
Arguments the dictionary defines as, A reason given as proof or rebuttal. It could be a disclosure intended to persuade. It could be a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion. It was quite an eye-opener for me here I was using a word without real clarity of what it meant. …
The touch
When BlogAdda gave us the prompt on the touch being different I did a story that was with me for a while. But I did ponder over touch. Touch is one of the five senses the sparsha. That is it is primal communication pathway, a non-verbal communication. Sometimes it can be very reassuring sometimes it …
Pure thought.
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I …
Passenger—get back into the driver’s seat.
my sister told me to do something, a while later she told me something else, my attitude was, “what the hell! Who is she to tell me what to do” after that every time she told me something I strove do the exact opposite. Until I was listening to patients sharing, at that point it …
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