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There are many koans related to sky. Maybe this is an addition to that long list. How does this wooden pillar at Bodhizendo holds the sky from falling down???

Jackie Mu, is the zendog at Little Flower Zendo, Perumalmalai. Joshu’s dog and Mu ( Whether Dog has Buddha nature) is the most important koan in Zen. Jackie Mu , is very compassionate doggie. And very wise too . In this Zendo with so many rooms and people , she knows which door to knock…

A long time back some one had written about, about my spiritual progress in 2023 , much better than i ever will be able to pen. So here it is. From Anthony De Mello book Awareness. “You will make great discoveries. These discoveries will change you. You wont have to make the slightest effort, believe…

Even though my  face  time with MD Pai  was just  for couple of  hours ( a 30 min scheduled meeting which lasted some 135 minutes!!) or for a small duration   some  6 years back ( I did meet him for a few minutes during a book publishing function @ IIMB much later),  he  is …

Ten Ox herding pictures are a series of pictures with accompanied poems to depict the progress of a Zen practitioner. In the original one the Enlightened practitioner goes to a  market place where they sell arrack and fish.  Ordinary mortals like me , the unenlightenable ones, goes to have a good filter coffee.  There is…

“Do you meditate? How long? What difference it makes to you? As of now, I find it difficult to meditate in the conventional way. ” –  MS I do. Meditate.  And for the last 241 days  i did that without a break.  Woke up well before 430 am on every single day and did meditate.…

Shivaswamy  comes to Sobha Hillview twice a week to sell his greens.  Wrong to say “Sell”, because he doesn’t sell it.  He is a very fair and honest fella.  We all wait for him to arrive and in no time, he drives back his empty vehicle back home. During Sivaratri week  he was absent for…

When man proposes and virus disposes… “Only emergency travel requests “, said HR advisory of the organisation i work for. That advisory was before Govt. stopped all types of interstate transport, except those of the poor migrants on foot. So it meant for me, more and more working from home, as such i work from…

  “The historic detection of gravitational waves will open up new frontier for understanding of universe,” the PM said, and that set me thinking.  These “waves”  may be really something of exceptional kind that could impart a  leap of  faith on someone who was quoting  from  bad Batra science not long ago.  As in a…

Waves of  unexplainable kind. “The historic detection of gravitational waves will open up new frontier for understanding of universe,” the PM said, and that set me thinking.  These “waves”  may be really something of exceptional kind that could impart a  leap of  faith on someone who was quoting  from  bad Batra science not long ago.…

Books I look forward to read again…. I was born with wonderful gifts of severe childhood asthma and a mild strain of polio.  Once in  a while my mom tells me that how I was not able to walk like other kids when I was just 2 years old, and how they had to take…

Win at any Cost is a Big Lose.. It will be an understatement to say the place   place I was born and brought up is football crazy.  Along with Goa and Bengal, you find fascination for soccer is in the blood of many Keralites.  My own memory of World cup soccer starts from the grainy…

    I was born with wonderful gifts of severe childhood asthma and a mild strain of polio. Once in  a while my mom tells me that how I was not able to walk like other kids when I was just 2 years old, and how they had to take me a famous Pediatrician in…

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The real beginning. Yesterday   was at Wilson Garden crematorium along with a few friends from Tranquil, our semi-closed gated community.  I did not know the dead person that well. Might have exchanged a few words in the last 4 years.  But he did have a dignified presence in most of the tranquilite’s life like that…

Death, desert and dessert. It has been some 6 years. Musings seems to have lost that melancholic tint. Most probably time still is the best antibiotic on memories.  Even my mother’s voice was less of tears this time and mostly tinged in matter of fact recollection.  And partly orchestrated and rest coincidental, I found myself…

This note which  was  posted exactly 3 years back( 26 Oct 2009), came up in my memory  while reading a news report on Mallya’s arrival  on a private jet for  F1 race in India to lead and cheer his F1 team. Time moves .. context may change.. Many things get better.. like  the title of the…