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Monthly Archives: April 2015
The Disappearing Beaches
Swachh Beachside Story It was barely two days after Women’s Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm and with hopes expressed for a better deal for oppressed women. Then TOI came out with a prominent Page 3 story that was anything but … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Environment, Society, Sundays in my City, Women
Tagged beaches, beachside, cleaning, debris, disappearing, hikes, pay, rocks, swachh, women
9 Comments
Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu
Your action is punishment and your action is your reward. You are the master of your destiny. When Bodhidharma reached China six hundred years later, there were already thirty thousand Buddhist temples, monasteries, and two million Buddhist monks in China. … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, Spirituality, Zen
Tagged Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Emperor Wu, enlightened, hell, monasteries, Osho, punishment, reward, staff
8 Comments
Meditation-Shunyatha-Nothingness
A story retold from Osho ….source: Anand Zen You become just like a sun with the rays from the sun moving away from the core into the nothingness and beyond to infinity. Three friends had gone for a morning walk … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged consciousness, cow, disturb, hill, meditation, monk, Nothingness, Shunyatha, standing, waiting
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Remember the goal
I will tell you one story. It happened in Tibet. A lama who, was working in a faraway valley wrote a letter to the chief monastery, to his master, to send one more lama: “We need him here.” The chief … Continue reading
Posted in Life skills, Spirituality, Travel
Tagged compassion, disciples, distractions, monastary, monks, need, old monk, passion
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PREDICTIVE TEXT
Predictably (sic) I suppose you thought I was going to write about the little thingamajig that you hold in your hand and expect it to think ahead of you and insert words into messages! You got another thought coming up. If … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged book, cell, homes, I told you so, kids, lives, mums, parents, predictive, texting
6 Comments
The Rough and The Smooth
Another topic suggested by Maria/Gaelikka for LBC where seven of us write on the same topic. Language is the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other. Basically all communication is language … Continue reading
The Long And The Short
Traditionally, the accepted height differences between a couple is that the man is taller and the woman shorter. My parents were a classic example of this with a foot difference between them. In Indian arranged marriages the first check point … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Life skills, Women
Tagged arranged marriages, dating, partners, short, short men, tall, tall women
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