DO U KNOW ME
DO I KNOW U
DO WE KNOW LIFE
OR DOES LIFE IS LEADING US
AND WE ARE LOST BY LIFE
AS LIFE IS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE
AND IT ALWAYS WANTS ACTION
ARE WE IN LIFE OR OUT OF LIFE
FOR WHEN WE ARE DOWN THEN LIFE DESERTS US
AND WE CRAVE FOR LIFE MORE
WITH LIFE WE ARE LIVELY
BUT THEN WHAT IS REAL LIFE
BEING OURSELF OR SHEDDING SELF FOR LIFE
THE QUESTION REMAINS
BEREFT OF LIFE IT IS A MYTH
BUT WITH LIFE IT IS A MIRAGE
FOR AN ENTITY WHO IS AN ENIGMA
BY A SOUL WHO DOES NOT EXIST WITHOUT LIFE
I THINK I HAVE GONE MAD
BUT THEN THOSE WHO LOVE LIFE ARE NOT SANE
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
A year that will be new
A year that will be new
A year came by and went
With 365 days/nights of news
Some pleasant, some painful
Painting our lives in various hues
A child crawls to walk
A boy learns to cheat
A girl loses her innocence
A woman claims her feat
Poor finds solace in dirt
Rich turns pauper in spirit
Humanity loses soul in crowd
A candle of smile waits to be lit
Flood, quake, tsunami, drought
War, battle, violence, fight
Blast, terror, kill, murder
Facing all of it is our birthright
Waiting for a selfless smile
Looking out for a friendly hand
Missing hugs, praises, ovation
Yet to find on our earthy land
Where a person is treated equal
Where Osama will love to be Obama
I am searching for a worthy kingdom
Where Allah will sit together with Rama
So, before bidding goodbye to 2008
Let’s learn the fair of past years
And pledge to make the world a better place
Say yes to LIFE and no to tears
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009
A year came by and went
With 365 days/nights of news
Some pleasant, some painful
Painting our lives in various hues
A child crawls to walk
A boy learns to cheat
A girl loses her innocence
A woman claims her feat
Poor finds solace in dirt
Rich turns pauper in spirit
Humanity loses soul in crowd
A candle of smile waits to be lit
Flood, quake, tsunami, drought
War, battle, violence, fight
Blast, terror, kill, murder
Facing all of it is our birthright
Waiting for a selfless smile
Looking out for a friendly hand
Missing hugs, praises, ovation
Yet to find on our earthy land
Where a person is treated equal
Where Osama will love to be Obama
I am searching for a worthy kingdom
Where Allah will sit together with Rama
So, before bidding goodbye to 2008
Let’s learn the fair of past years
And pledge to make the world a better place
Say yes to LIFE and no to tears
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009
Monday, October 13, 2008
A trail of warm thoughts
It all started in a train, and before I knew, it finished when I alighted at the station. I was returning to Bhopal from Kerala after attending the wedding of my friend who is now based in US.
My happiness knew no bounds when I got an opportunity to visit my hometown alone with my school friends. Being the youngest among three brothers, I was pampered but not allowed to even go out to the nearest shop to buy anything. My childhood years were spent in going to school, playground and church apart from the social functions that the family was invited to. Imagine seventeen years under the watchful eyes of big brothers!
So, the trip to Kerala with my friends was a dream come true in many ways. During our onward journey, since the train took the Konkan route we bought Fenny (the Goan Cashew Fenni). Life’s small indulgences and simple pleasures.
The masti and dhamaal that all of us (stags) had during our stay at a hotel near my friend’s paternal house in a remote village still gives me a kick even after ten years.
I was the odd man out during the marriage party because apart from my friend — the groom, only I was wearing a suit. The rest were wearing the traditional Kasavu Mundu and white or cream shirt. I was a bit embarrassed but my ‘groom’ pal was feeling proud to show off his ‘handsome’ friend to the bride’s family.
The party ended and soon I was back in the train for my return trip. There was this girl of about 17-18 years in the compartment who was accompanying her parents. I was reading a novel to pass the time when she, obviously bored of talking to her parents, started a conversation with me and soon a volley of questions and answers followed and the three days and two nights passed like a fast-paced movie. Her parents also found me a harmless soul and left us to our discussions.
As I was to disembark at 4 am, we were talking till late night. I told her that if she will be awake to see me off then I will gift her something (these words just came impromptu). She agreed even though I had nothing to give her. I do not know whether she slept or not but when I opened my eyes after my short nap she was smiling at me. I told her that I am going to the washroom and will be back. As the compartment was dark since I was the only passenger to get down, so I made my way to the washroom of the second class compartment and when I came out she was standing near the washbasin. I looked at her eyes that were searching for something and before we could grasp the situation, I planted a soft kiss on her right cheek.
She smiled and said that she will never forget this moment and my gift — a statement that I had already imprinted in my mind.
Soon my stop came, I got down the train and she waved at me. Both of us did not cry or felt sad. We did not even felt the need to ask each other’s address or made any promise of keeping in touch.
Even after so many years when I think of that incident, the feeling is still the same — a composed acknowledgement of the true emotion of togetherness.
My happiness knew no bounds when I got an opportunity to visit my hometown alone with my school friends. Being the youngest among three brothers, I was pampered but not allowed to even go out to the nearest shop to buy anything. My childhood years were spent in going to school, playground and church apart from the social functions that the family was invited to. Imagine seventeen years under the watchful eyes of big brothers!
So, the trip to Kerala with my friends was a dream come true in many ways. During our onward journey, since the train took the Konkan route we bought Fenny (the Goan Cashew Fenni). Life’s small indulgences and simple pleasures.
The masti and dhamaal that all of us (stags) had during our stay at a hotel near my friend’s paternal house in a remote village still gives me a kick even after ten years.
I was the odd man out during the marriage party because apart from my friend — the groom, only I was wearing a suit. The rest were wearing the traditional Kasavu Mundu and white or cream shirt. I was a bit embarrassed but my ‘groom’ pal was feeling proud to show off his ‘handsome’ friend to the bride’s family.
The party ended and soon I was back in the train for my return trip. There was this girl of about 17-18 years in the compartment who was accompanying her parents. I was reading a novel to pass the time when she, obviously bored of talking to her parents, started a conversation with me and soon a volley of questions and answers followed and the three days and two nights passed like a fast-paced movie. Her parents also found me a harmless soul and left us to our discussions.
As I was to disembark at 4 am, we were talking till late night. I told her that if she will be awake to see me off then I will gift her something (these words just came impromptu). She agreed even though I had nothing to give her. I do not know whether she slept or not but when I opened my eyes after my short nap she was smiling at me. I told her that I am going to the washroom and will be back. As the compartment was dark since I was the only passenger to get down, so I made my way to the washroom of the second class compartment and when I came out she was standing near the washbasin. I looked at her eyes that were searching for something and before we could grasp the situation, I planted a soft kiss on her right cheek.
She smiled and said that she will never forget this moment and my gift — a statement that I had already imprinted in my mind.
Soon my stop came, I got down the train and she waved at me. Both of us did not cry or felt sad. We did not even felt the need to ask each other’s address or made any promise of keeping in touch.
Even after so many years when I think of that incident, the feeling is still the same — a composed acknowledgement of the true emotion of togetherness.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
What is Essential Core of Meditation?
Here is What Osho Says
Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is the second part of meditation — first, learning how just to be, and then learning little actions: cleaning the floor, taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things.
For example, I am speaking to you, but my meditation is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my very center there is not even a ripple; it is just silent, utterly silent. So meditation is not against action. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: you become the center of the cyclone.
Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely -- with more joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity -- yet you are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you.
You are not the doer, you are the watcher.
That's the whole secret of meditation, that you become a watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.
That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed. The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness. A crow crowing... you are listening. These are two-object and subject. But can't you see a witness who is seeing both? - the crow, the listener, and still there is someone who is watching both. It is such a simple phenomenon.
You are seeing a tree: you are there, the tree is there, but can't you find one thing more?-that you are seeing the tree, that there is witness in you which is seeing you seeing the tree.
Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can watch the clouds, you can watch children playing around. Watching is meditation. What you watch is not the point; the object is not the point. The quality of observation, the quality of being aware and alert - that's what meditation is.
Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is medication. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alert. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alert. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. The whole point is, one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.
Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is the second part of meditation — first, learning how just to be, and then learning little actions: cleaning the floor, taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things.
For example, I am speaking to you, but my meditation is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my very center there is not even a ripple; it is just silent, utterly silent. So meditation is not against action. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: you become the center of the cyclone.
Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely -- with more joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity -- yet you are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you.
You are not the doer, you are the watcher.
That's the whole secret of meditation, that you become a watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.
That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed. The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness. A crow crowing... you are listening. These are two-object and subject. But can't you see a witness who is seeing both? - the crow, the listener, and still there is someone who is watching both. It is such a simple phenomenon.
You are seeing a tree: you are there, the tree is there, but can't you find one thing more?-that you are seeing the tree, that there is witness in you which is seeing you seeing the tree.
Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can watch the clouds, you can watch children playing around. Watching is meditation. What you watch is not the point; the object is not the point. The quality of observation, the quality of being aware and alert - that's what meditation is.
Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is medication. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alert. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alert. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. The whole point is, one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Useful words
Excerpted from Eat That Frog!
21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Plan Every Day In Advance
You have heard the old question, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer is “One bite at a time!”
How do you eat your biggest, ugliest frog? The same way; you break it down into specific step-by-step activities and then you start on the first one. Your mind, your ability to think, plan, and decide, is your most powerful tool for overcoming procrastination and increasing your productivity. Your ability to set goals, make plans, and take action on them determines the course of your life. Conversely, as Alec Mackenzie wrote, “Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.”
Increase Your Return on Energy
One of your top goals at work should be for you to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional, and physical energy. The good news is that every minute spent in planning saves as many as ten minutes in execution. It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.
You may have heard of the Six-P Formula. It says, “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.” When you consider how helpful planning can be in increasing your productivity and performance, it is amazing how few people practice it every single day. And planning is really quite simple to do. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen. The most sophisticated Palm Pilot, computer program, or time planner is based on the same principle. It is based on your sitting down and making a list of everything you have to do before you begin.
21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Plan Every Day In Advance
You have heard the old question, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer is “One bite at a time!”
How do you eat your biggest, ugliest frog? The same way; you break it down into specific step-by-step activities and then you start on the first one. Your mind, your ability to think, plan, and decide, is your most powerful tool for overcoming procrastination and increasing your productivity. Your ability to set goals, make plans, and take action on them determines the course of your life. Conversely, as Alec Mackenzie wrote, “Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.”
Increase Your Return on Energy
One of your top goals at work should be for you to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional, and physical energy. The good news is that every minute spent in planning saves as many as ten minutes in execution. It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.
You may have heard of the Six-P Formula. It says, “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.” When you consider how helpful planning can be in increasing your productivity and performance, it is amazing how few people practice it every single day. And planning is really quite simple to do. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen. The most sophisticated Palm Pilot, computer program, or time planner is based on the same principle. It is based on your sitting down and making a list of everything you have to do before you begin.
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