For me no, it's a daily battle. One cannot assume one has it and stay with it. The battle between the Ego and compassion is an ongoing, almost daily one. For there is no better way to describe Wisdom but the ability to live, exist and act in a compassionate way. That was my thought [...]
The ‘Wallah’s’ in my life or when Cate Blanchet kissed Suresh
I saw the woman in glasses (on the left) 25 years ago.. Early in the morning she was running on the Juhu beach in Mumbai, sari and all, balancing the basket of fresh fish on her head that was tilted at a slightly awkward angle - probably the best way to balance the uncertain load [...]
Water : It’s the new Power
Watch this video , and guess what the story of Paani is ? The last statement in the video is a hint. It's not the money - it's the Power. That's where we are heading - a world where Water is power - and Power corrupts. Of course. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw&feature=player_embedded
President Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
.. and what are they going to achieve that the existing 70,000 foreign troops did not ? President Obama is giving into the hawks within the US armed forces. The promise of withdrawal in 2011 is merely a way of softening the blow by a man that is about to get a Nobel Price for [...]
creativity
raging mixed feelings, giving in to the schizophrenia of the contradictions of existence, of reality, desire, fulfilment and non fulfillment, of confusion, desperation, and joy, give into all intellectual and emotional sensation and then try like hell not to drown those desperate strokes of survival sometimes - and then only sometimes have a pattern which, [...]
‘Mental illness” and Conciousness : a personal study
This is a letter from Hugh, please read when you have time : My short answer to your question about consciousness: Listening to various visionaries and business executives talk about technology and the Internet a few weeks ago reminded me of my earlier – and very different – trip to India when I was looking [...]
how do you define an event ?
how do you define an event ? after the moment in which it seemed to have an existence ? for beyond that it exists only in the imperfect ego as shards of memory prejudiced by the ego's need to quantify, define and moralize did it ever occur ? for it to occur all of time [...]
Incredible Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy. Art that has no meaning but is not meaningless
View image The Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is stunning. Forced into you are altered realities and perspectives that you either accept or do what a lot of the (huge) crowd was doing to protect itself. Laughing and passing so called 'witty comments'. Or some one was lecturing loudly on the [...]
A film of less doubt and more courage : Bandit Queen
From Deepak :"You know Shekhar, today I watched Bandit Queen. I was in early school when it was released and it was out of bounds then. I can't understand how something made so way back seems to grab me NOW from the first moment. You know this is your most honest attempt. You - simply [...]
Beginings….
These are times for new beginnings. Beginnings are not events that can be taken for granted. They are offerings to us for our past Karma's and we are then held responsible to seize the offering, nurture it, worship it, and see in them immensity that we are, not letting the petty ups and downs blind [...]