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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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 30
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 29
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 22
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 19
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 10
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Aug 7
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 31
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 27
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 19
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 13
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 10
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jul 4
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jun 28
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jun 20
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…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jun 16
Clouds that drift…
Clouds that drift…
It is just that we aren’t able to give enough time to watching the clouds, that slowly drift by, like a snail, leaving the trail of…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jun 16
Love ist nicht Control
Love ist nicht Control
Growing up, we inadvertently started equating love with control, to a point that they become inseparable. We first learned about love from…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Jun 3
The Altar within…
The Altar within…
In Asia, almost every house, even the smallest ones: has an altar. People pay their utmost reverence to the altar and whenever they pass by…
Shyam Wuppuluri
May 28
Replenishing the fire within…
Replenishing the fire within…
When you use a bellow to make a fire, you know that sometimes fire goes away leaving embers behind. Yet if you were to use the bellow…
Shyam Wuppuluri
May 23
Feeling of loneliness…
Feeling of loneliness…
We feel lonely because the “feeling of loneliness” in us feels lonely. We need to attend to our feeling right away and let it know that it…
Shyam Wuppuluri
May 20
Micro or Macro?
Micro or Macro?
The food is macro (large), but when we consume, it gets broken down into micro (small) elements and then is consumed by our cells which are…
Shyam Wuppuluri
May 10
Common ground of our being…
Common ground of our being…
Well, it may sound strange, but the fact is that we are inseparably and intricately interconnected to all beings. An Eskimo sitting in an…
Shyam Wuppuluri
May 3
One Mind contains it all…
One Mind contains it all…
Suppose you have a favourite pen and you are so familiar with it that you will recognise it in any orientation, anywhere. Suppose, I take…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Apr 21
Universe grew by herself…
Universe grew by herself…
Some of us honestly wish to benefit the world in every way possible but we often feel lonely on that path. It is then that we must entrust…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Apr 11
Nature of our work…
Nature of our work…
After working in the field, farmers in Asia return home with their partners singing happily on the way. Bee visits flower after flower, yet…
Shyam Wuppuluri
Apr 5
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