This article is a continuation of my previous blog post. Link to that is below Quoting from the article above there is a key passage: Be without preferences or judgments as regards the arisings of the mind. The path is the goal. Respond with equanimity and empathy to the arisings of the mind. Now I […]
Tag Archives: meditation
Some Thoughts on my Meditation Practice
I have decided that for the time being I will not overthink the articles in my blog and will write about my day to day thoughts and challenges. So these are my thoughts for today as regards my meditation practice. I had earlier put up a post with a lot of points that I expected […]
Less is More … A Guide to Meditation
I’ll start by telling my story and you can decide whether you have had a similar experience. I love reading and I am committed to meditation. I have a large library of books at home and those include many books on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation practices. I have books by Jack Kornfield, Thich Nhat Hanh, […]
Pursuing Excellence
Why do I persist with meditation? It has been about 20 years since I attended my first Vipassana course. The instructors require you to meditate 2 hours daily and attend one 10 day course every year. All of which I haven’t done. I had what I call a mystical experience in the year 2006. Extraordinary […]
Here’s how to train yourself (or somebody else) to become a Genius
In this blog post I would like to write about a book that I haven’t as yet read. The book is Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. Ericsson is a researcher and a scholar who has devoted his career to answering the question – What’s the best […]
Staying Young
This article is a guide to having a youthful outlook. I think that it should be useful to almost all people regardless of their age. The sooner you start to implement this advice the better. But even people who are no longer young can read this with profit. In my opinion we grow old and […]
Want to be a Genius like Einstein? Here’s how …
I am not sure if this is widely known but it is possible to train oneself to become a genius in any field through Eastern Meditation practices. Here is a story illustrating this point: A herdsman in a village used to take his herd of cows to graze in the fields daily. He used to […]