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Those Flowers Bloom, Even When No One Counts the Petals
Thinking in Malayalam, writing in English, and being told to work on my grammar. For years, I saw this as a channel I needed to cross. Now, I understand it’s my Nelson Number—my unique advantage. “I had my primary schooling in a local Govt school… I think in Malayalam and then speak and write in…
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Yudhishthira’s Dog at the Gate: Dogs, Dharma, and the Paradox of Compassion
From the Mahābhārata to Jackie Mu at the Zendo, dogs remind us that compassion is not sentiment alone, but awareness, responsibility, and the willingness to bow to paradox. Compassion often arrives in the most ordinary of forms—a Forest Department sign on the Kodai Ghat road, a stray dog at the Zendo gate, or a child’s…
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The Fulcrum in the see-saw of your life : when your first life truly begins…
We think life begins in the delivery room. But what if you’ve only been sleepwalking through a prelude? We are told we have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we have only one. The truth is more profound: our first real life—a life of conscious and authentic being—only begins at that single,…
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Time chasers!
Do you need time? Do You Need Time?For what? The one on their deathbed, who looks back and sees only a life spent chasing time, may feel they need more. The one who suddenly realizes—this is the only life I have—may feel they need more. As Confucius said: “We have two lives, and the second…
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Live this moment – Not even three moments ahead , three moments are too many.
What will your life be like in three years? A few weeks back i wrote a whole blog on this … https://kokorozendo.life/2025/10/24/stepping-off-the-prison-wheel-living-without-gradations/. To quote from that. “And when I look back from where I am at this point in time — with the great misty mountains rising on the left side of my room, which…
