A thinker is never here and now, he is never in the present, he is always somewhere else. A meditator is always here and now, he is nowhere else. That’s why thinking is the only barrier in meditation. You have to become aware and by and by the more you become aware, the more you stop cooperating with thinking.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
In this frantic rush for instant results, everyone seems to have forgotten that what they start to learn are ‘asanas’ or postures and, at the most, pranayam or breath regulation.
People are trying to find happiness, hence the over concern with the body. It is almost an obsession. It has gone beyond the limits of concern to obsession with the body. They are making an effort to have some contract with happiness through the body, and that is not possible.
Swami Chaitanya Keerti In the light of growing divide between many communities in India, and all kinds of conflicts are erupting every day into a large-scale violence leading to loss of emotional wellness among individuals and different groups of society. It has become very important to pay attention to the insights given by enlightened […]
My daughter and her friend recently joined Yoga Classes to enhance their fitness levels and learn some meditation techniques (obviously on my behest). When they returned from the class, out of curiosity, I checked on them, “How was the class?” They did not sound much enthusiastic as anticipated, knowing that today’s young generation of today […]
In his 1992 book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Gary Chapman outlines the five ways to express and experience love. He calls these ways ‘languages of love’. Let’s look at each one of them!
We repeat the same process with the next thought, and so on. So we need to work on our thoughts one by one analysing the way they emerge and evolve and gradually learning to free them as they arise, Defusing the chain reactions that allow thoughts to invade the mind.
My daughter and her friend recently joined Yoga Classes to enhance their fitness levels and learn some meditation techniques (obviously on my behest). When they returned from the class, out of curiosity, I checked on them, “How was the class?” They did not sound much enthusiastic as anticipated, knowing that today’s young generation of today […]
Behavioural studies have also shown that those who are best able to balance their emotions (by controlling them without repressing them) also demonstrate the greatest selflessness in the face of the suffering of others.
Osho says, there should be no duality, no sense of two. Only one should remain. And the day there is no distance remaining between you and existence, when you no longer even feel, ” I am the knower and the universe outside is the one to be known,” the day there is no distance between […]