This morning’s post on the Poetry Chaikhana came with a better idea of death than anything I came across so far. Still, it is not ideal. I mean, the death the way I perceive it, is a liberation, complete bliss and the all-encompassing knowledge. But now I came closer to understanding the pleasure of the physical existence. The really ideal […]
No reality for me, thank you very much!
I am not bothered with keeping up with how the things are in the real world any more. The reason number one – there is no such thing as an objective reality. The reason number two – assuming the so called realistic view of the situation doesn’t do one any good. It is much better for […]
Forget the time!
I am trying to catch the Present. The book of the week is “The Power of Now”. The main message so far: The past and the future are not real – they are only the mental concepts. They don’t exist as such, outside of our head. The only thing which is real and which exists […]
As far as the structure…
As far as the spiritual structure concerned, I’ve figured the following: – Adopting any existing structure is not for me. The more religious, dogmatic, devotional it is – the more repelling; – Taking any given philosophy/teaching on the whole is not for me; – My way is – pick & mix. The philosophy I am forming in principal […]
White shaman
Last weekend I attended an interesting event. A talk on Friday and a one-to-one session on divination on Sunday, given by a Sangoma (Shaman) John Lockley from South Africa. This is his website: http://www.african-shaman.com During the talk, John told us about himself and his path to becoming a sangoma. He had prophetic dreams about it since […]
Children’s book recommended!
Having young children, I am regularly compelled to read children’s books, for which I am very grateful. For every now and again I am stunned by the beauty of the writing and illustrating. There is skill, there is wisdom, there is love – this word which is oh, so bitten due to the hard use […]
Point of living
I decided, that the whole point of living is actually having fun. And all the great teachers were talking precisely about that, only the further in time, the more the message got distorted, and for centuries millions and millions were doing the suffering, imagining, that that was the instruction.
New language – New life
Someone said, learning another language is like gaining another life. It is almost 9 years since I live in England, submerged in a language different from the one I spoke all my previous life, and I can expertly say, that the above idea is totally true. Never in my life was I the one to […]
Trying out Ustream…
Studio
Story-telling
Computer is a great distraction. It is a great tool. I am thinking about story-telling a lot lately. Went to see what they have on youtube on this subject. Some interesting things to be found, for instance this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzP4FM3WqwY and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfjOeyx8qk&NR=1 Story is linear, story is figurative. That is if you translate the story-telling into […]