Have you ever wondered why you keep suffering long after the actual event has passed? Think of a time when someone criticized you – “How could you do that? She is your sister. That’s not the way a good brother should be.” That comment stays with you for days. You start thinking: Maybe I’m not…
Recently I attended a session on the theme of Dependent Origination. It was facilitated by Geshe Tenzin Lhabsun. I must say I got a deeper insight into the framework of this master teaching of the Buddha. For many years I struggled to understand the links and chain of causation and how they can be experienced…
Most people stopped asking questions long ago. Instead, they collect answers. Better answers. Beautiful answers. Surprising answers. Deep answers. Witty answers. They hope that by collecting enough answers, the question will disappear. But a real question never dies. Because a question is alive. An answer is not. A living question grows with you. It makes…
I met a friend M at a café. What began as a casual conversation took an interesting turn. M: Crazy things going on in the world right now, isn’t it? Me: You mean the war? M: Yes. It feels wrong. The way the USA has approached Iran, and how it presents itself as the righteous…
A recent conversation with my friend S in a café. Me: Life is uncertain. Don’t you think? Anything can happen anytime. Friend: Yes, so go ahead and enjoy it while it lasts. Why are you worried and always trying to show the fleeting side of it? Me: But don’t you see what’s happening in the…
In conversation with Rupali Raut, HealingHearts Rupali: Beyond your roles, how do you see yourself? Yogesh: Beyond my roles, I see myself as a very ordinary person. There is nothing special about me. Just someone living life as it unfolds. Rupali: How does your day look now, especially after leaving corporate life? Yogesh: My days…
Yesterday, late in the afternoon, after a sumptuous lunch, I was doing nothing (i.e. scrolling reels). I came across Shakespeare’s quote from King Lear I paused to reflect – Am I doing something or doing nothing? I started to feel a bit uneasy & guilty. However, the next reel raised my spirit. I relaxed on…
One of the central teachings of the Buddha is that of No-Self. This teaching appears in the Anatta-lakkhana Sutta, which means the signs of no-self. Atta is pali word for Atma so Anatta is Anatman in Sanskrit, signifying no-soul or no-self. This teaching went against the grain of existing understanding that every person has an…
Have you ever felt like life is just going around in circles? The routines, the struggles, the repeating thought patterns, the same troublesome emotions, the same “new beginnings” that end up eventually in the same rut that one feels the need to start again. At first, being in a pattern can feel safe, it is…
Yesterday afternoon, I dropped my daughter off at her guitar class and parked my car in front of a closed laundry shop. Since the class was an hour long, I settled in with a book as I waited. About half an hour later, someone knocked on my window. I looked up to see a balding…
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