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Self-Consciousness

Silence v/s Spontaneity

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Silence and Spontaneity seem to be opposite ends of the spectrum. I am in love with both and would love for myself to harmonize them. But is it possible in the first place?

When I wake up, just like others, my awareness is at a low. Ironically I find it easier to be myself during these times. There is nobody looking upon me from a watch-tower. Because my own self-aware self is absent. I am under nobody’s radar. There is no productive/unproductive or worthwhile/not worthwhile tag as applied to my actions. I can crack jokes at length (oblivious of any time management) and blabber away to glory with my little one. The watcher and the commenter are not home. There is nobody telling me what to do and what not to do. Keep Reading

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Can you self-control?

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In our basic SSY class, we have all seen the importance and usefulness of operating from ‘acceptance’. I could always see ‘acceptance’ work miracles in my life but could never fully establish the principles of nature which made it work.

SSY, as discovered by Pujya Guruji, is a science along the lines of Adwaita-Vedanta as propagated by Shankaracharya and Maharshi Raman. Along the lines of the same Adwaita philosophy, here is the reason as to why acceptance works : Keep Reading

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What is Tao ?

Excerpts from ‘What is Tao ?’

by Alan Watts

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We have been brought up in a religious tradition, that to a great extent has taught us to mistrust the nature around us and to mistrust our own selves as well. But the irony here is that if u cannot trust your own basic nature, then how can you trust your own mistrusting ? Isnt your mistrusting a part of your nature ? How do u know that your mistrusting is not wrong as well ? If you do not trust your own nature, you become as tangled up as anyone can be.

Confucius was the first to say that he would rather trust human passions and instincts than trust human ideas about what is right, for like the Taoists he realized that we have to allow all living things to look after themselves. Keep Reading

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