Journal THE PROBLEM WITH FORGIVENESS We are told in most traditions that it is good and important to forgive the one who hurts or harms you. I have never been comfortable with this even though I can see that it is good and noble to forgive. I am specially uncomfortable with FORGIVENESS where…

Poem The Ancient One Will you ever come before me through the veils of jasmine I have strung on my thread in the mornings When there was dew on the grasses and the leaves and when I felt you were there to tend the garden as you have done forever …

JOURNAL CAN A PERSON'S INTRINSIC NATURE CHANGE OR IS EVERYONE TRAPPED IN AN INVISIBLE PRISON OF SELF.... This is one of those Jack-in-the-box questions that keeps popping up and yet is never finally answered. Like many other questions, we live with it and find our own answers. If we go back to…

WE CELEBRATE JOY AND GOOD TIMES, AND WE ALSO LEARN FROM AND IMMORTALISE SORROW I was listening to an interview given by India's great actor in tragedy roles, Dilip Kumar. Something he said in his impeccable Urdu stuck in the mind. He said the tragic roles seemed to suit his…

JOUFNAL LEARNING TO LIVE AGAIN IN A REINVENTED CIVILIZATION Are we realizing deeply enough that the COVID onslaught has, whether we like it or not, taught is to live again, to live in new ways, to deal with changes In the world of ours. Of course we have lived thru…

THE SAD, TERRIBLY SAD END-OF-LIFE STORY OF SUPERSTAR "PHENOMENON" ACTOR RAJESH KHANNA. Going thru some old filmy videos, I came across one which I had seen nearly a decade ago and it almost brought tears to my eyes, then as well as now. …

JOURNAL RUNNING FROM THE TIGER AND OVER THE CLIFF -The Hindu and the Zen Buddhist ways of looking at the same story..... It is a familiar and oft told allegorical story. A MAN IS CHASED BY A TIGER AND HE RUNS TO THE EDGE OF A CLIFF. There is a…

JOURNAL THERE ARE TIMES WHEN CONTRADICTIONS MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON SOMETIMES a personal contradiction in beliefs and ideas is the most honest way for a person. This jn itself might appear a paradox. A no-brainer. But it is not. We have just to get away from our deeply ingrained…

JOURNAL THE STRANGE IMPORTANCE OF EVIL IN OUR LIFE AND WORLD No one ever has been able to fathom the reason for the existence of Evil and other negativities in the world. And this is specially confusing and inexplicable when every religious tradition on earth has a good and benign…