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Month: March 2021

Astronaut’s View

March 28, 2021

Race, religion, culture, nation, caste, colour, politics, ideology… They give humans something to hold on to. Imagine for a minute that you are in the International Space Station, staring at Earth. You will see the vast expanse of the playful universe and our planet’s place in that orchestra. The divisions disappear. Something bigger appears. Astronauts refer to it as the Overview Effect. Outer space/ Planet. Inner space/ Ego. Outer Astronauts. Inner Astronauts. ‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.’ -Pierre Teilhard de Chardi.

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Out Of Focus

March 20, 2021

Imagine you are in a museum, And you come across this large mural. Standing too close to it, you lose perspective. To see the big picture, you step back Step back a bit more, a bit more … From a certain distance, you can connect with what the mural is trying to depict. At a distance, there is a focus. The mural is life. To see what it is trying to tell us, we need to step back a bit, from time to time. A bit of distance creates perspective. Perspective is Wisdom.

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Suffering = Pain X Resistance

March 13, 2021

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional -Haruki Murakami Pain is not the same as suffering. According to meditation teacher Shinzen Young, the key to happiness is the understanding that suffering is caused by resisting pain. We can’t avoid pain in life, he said, but we don’t necessarily have to suffer because of that pain… He explains it in the form of an equation: Suffering = Pain X Resistance Three things I learnt from this – -Pain is real; suffering is relative. -The more I resist pain; suffering grows in multiples. -I can’t control pain, but I can work on my

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We Hire Suffering

March 6, 2021

We hire suffering in search of happiness. We hire fear in search of love. We hire adventure in search of safety. We hire bondage in search of freedom. We hire insecurities in search of confidence. We hire stagnancy in search of growth. We hire addiction in search of control. We hire the villain in search of the hero. We hire chaos in search of meaning. The fact is – they come in pairs. We can’t choose one without choosing the other. To let go of one, we have to let go of the other. That is how the game plays

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