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This chapter is about a day when my questions and the Universe’s answers flow in a seamless conversation. Today starts with meditation. I want to organise my activities, or rather to define what I want to achieve, or rather to divine how to go about the day, or simply to relax and let the body […]
My new story is simple. It is just being and nothing other. I am. I exist and can never seize to exist. Everything else is just an experience. No good, no bad, no sins, no mistakes. I dispose of guilt too. I understand the meaninglessness of punishment. It is just a pure experience and I […]
When one starts something new, everything resists. Material resists, environment resists, one’s own mind resists… Why? I don’t know but this is so. And so, one has to push through resistance to get to the enjoyable sailing. Like with learning anything, for example a new language, at the beginning all is slow and annoying and […]
Today, I was looking at the seagull, who lives on top of the chimney 4 metres outside my window, and seeing it for the first time. It lives on it’s own. There is no room for another one on that perch. It was sleeping with it’s beak on it’s back, sitting so that a light […]
– Well, it’s a tough question. – Why? – I haven’t got a mirror big enough to embrace all of me, and without being able to see myself how am I going to form my style? Can we switch the topic now? – Gotcha! You are wriggling now! Painful, uncomphortable? – Ok, then. Bring it […]
A cowboy is asked: – Why did you decide to jump into that thorn bush? – I thought It’s gonna be OK. Did you laugh? I thought so much. Years ago it made me laugh for three days non-stop. People asked me why I was laughing and I told them the joke. It was invariably […]
Poetry Chaikhana blog (one of my perennial favourites) sent today a post with a poem by Farid ud-Din Attar. It says: “You can never see your own face, only a reflection, not the face itself.” …and I had a little recognition moment – “That’s what it is!” That’s probably the reason I am obsessed with portraits. They […]
Reminding myself of my one and only job -being me. Sometimes it means spending days on my own, in silence, in idleness, just staying in synch with God – the way I used to, when I was a child.
Step one: Identify what caused that feeling.
To help with that, think back to the time when it first appeared. Then, think what exactly caused it – someone’s remark, or action, or some event. Then, think what it made you feel like, or what negative thought that thing evoked in you.
When we strip you down to the most basic elements of what you’re all about, what do we have?
Which is not to say, that it is bad to have wants! On the contrary, it is great! It’s fun! Wants are the engine of the progress. But wants are not needs. One can drop them any time. You need nothing. So, be free 🙂