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Subtle help

Subtle help

We are usually fixated on a visible sort of help or contribution: one that saves someone’s life in an ICU, one where thousand bags of rice…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Heights of intellect…

Heights of intellect…

Be it an election result or friction between countries or greenhouse gases: our intellect allows us to see things that aren’t going well in…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Reaching the moon…

Reaching the moon…

“After a long day of walking, they decided to walk no further and wished to sit on the forest bed. As they stopped, she slowly removed a…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
A piece of paper…

A piece of paper…

If you wish, please take a piece of paper and write down one thing that tied a knot of anger, irritation or hatred in your heart. You can…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
When a baby is born…

When a baby is born…

When a baby is born, usually it doesn’t make it to the headlines because we think that he or she doesn’t impact the world as much as the…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Path of love…

Path of love…

“The path of love has never been easy but those who walk on it sincerely shall make through it happily.
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Why is God invisible?

Why is God invisible?

Whenever I spoke to anyone about God, the conversation flows right away into this question: Why is God invisible? To me the answer is very…
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Mother outside…

Mother outside…

Blinded by our own past experiences, our own beliefs — we never bothered to, with utmost sincerity find out for ourselves, if there is a…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
So close…

So close…

We all have strange, esoteric and essentially unreachable ideas regarding enlightenment. Enlightenment can be rather simple and very…
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Love that lasts…

Love that lasts…

She was too bright and shiny. How could he stare at her for long? And yet as they walked, he couldn’t take his eyes off her. And so he…
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Don’t I have enough?

Don’t I have enough?

A blue whale eats 16000 kilos each day. Elephants eat 200 Kilos each day. Yet they find enough in nature to survive for a long time. Even…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Age of Networking

Age of Networking

Wherever we go, we are always forced to “network”. We find many people going around in conferences, throwing visiting cards around like…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
The best thing to do…

The best thing to do…

Sometimes we want the best in us to come out — when we meet our loved ones or colleagues. We try our best to do things and to show them…
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Run, run without delay…

Run, run without delay…

You wanted love. You wanted to love. You wanted justice and liberation. You wanted all good things that one can dream of. All of this…
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True medicine…

True medicine…

We all want to be healed and all of us wanted to witness a miracle at-least once in our life. The question isn’t whether miracles exist but…
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Art of using refrigerator…

Art of using refrigerator…

Our mouth, and whatever little wisdom that flows from it, can be compared to the door of the refrigerator. It isn’t that we keep the door…
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To be free…

To be free…

When we undertake precepts or vows in any form of spirituality, we clearly need to see that they aren’t chains of bondage that constrain…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Gigantic Aeroplane…

Gigantic Aeroplane…

In a conversation about flying, a pilot told me that psychological screening is becoming mandatory for pilots: where they are screened for…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
On Humility…

On Humility…

Suppose there is a car driver of a president of a certain country. When he drives, he sees all lanes being cleared up, police guarding all…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Staying young…

Staying young…

Much of our energy is spent against battling age (time). We use so many chemicals and creams to hide our wrinkles. It is a little like our…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Birth of Volition…

Birth of Volition…

In an Asian metro station, I saw a very young girl with her already born son begging, with her head bent low all day long! I stood for a…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Staring at night sky…

Staring at night sky…

Staring at the night sky, we must always practice looking for our beloved ones in the stars and moon. Those who think of this as a mere…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Word that weighs a million tonnes~

Word that weighs a million tonnes~

In Ancient times, there are sages and monks who never misused their faculty of speech. When they had to speak and spoke even a single word…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Leaving a true impression…

Leaving a true impression…

Corporate workshops, parents and teachers often train us on leaving a good impression on others when we meet them for the first time. How…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
Extinguishing the fire…

Extinguishing the fire…

These days we rarely witness a fire accident. All our dwellings have sophisticated smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and highly skilled…
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Shyam Wuppuluri
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