Reactivate Yourself

  Invisible Beyond Visible                                                Credit-Lsaiah McClean (Unsplash) The narrative of Invisible VS Visible to me     appears like a Salsa dance where steps in both casings move together irrespective of their scopes & subject matters. For example Corona virus is invisible yet the extensive human devastation it has done world over is visible.   The human life looks visible but philosophically speaking, isn’t it   all a dream and   for instance what was visible few minutes back has turned to invisible on death. Even our aura, sensations, beliefs, inner feelings, conscious & sub-conscious mind are all     invisible.      Similarly what is indexed by the mind is all invisible unless we express to get into a visible mode.   Look how the invisible mind (not the brain) controls our being and destines it based on the individual Karmas both (visible & invisible). We invariably spend hours together daily on doing self-talk    (80-90% negative) w

 

 

 

 

  Live to Laugh, Laugh to Live                                                                                                 Credit-Peter Bucks (Unsplash) When a toddler gets up in the morning, the first thing he/she does is looks and smiles at the mother.   The mother cherishes those moments and touches the face and the toddler starts chuckling and giggling. I recall when I was a school kid, my late mother would admonish whenever I had a hefty laugh.  She felt it was arrogance and not in tune with the discipline. But today who cares, whenever the occasion demands, I do laugh loudly from the interior of my soul.   I bet often people around know whose bang and bashing laughter is this.   Isn’t life a full circle when we watch small children filling our hearts with laughter and bringing happiness and humor to our being? There are no fears and tensions just oneness everywhere.  Laughing is a manifestation of our child within and who wouldn’t wish to provoke the child regularly to reinca

 

 

 

                        Living in Past, Looking at Future                                                                                              Credit-Gerd Altmann (Pixabay) ‘A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed. Then the words of his Zen master came to him, “Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now.” Heeding these words, the warrior became peaceful and fell asleep’.                                                                                                           (Ref: Present moment-Zen stories to tell your neighbors)   I remember some twenty years back in a corporate training session; a reference was made to Eckhart Tolle’s famous book ‘The Power of Now’. The book in brief states that “every minute you spend worrying about the future or regretting the past is a minute lost, because really

 

 

 

                        Impatience Drives Persistence                                                                                      Credit-Public Domain Pictures (Pixabay)       I recall as a schoolboy I was little sluggish, shy and bit irritating as well. I was told repeatedly that I was depicting minor signs of intolerance and restlessness. For example, those days while on the dining table, I would be the first one to finish my food quickly, get up and go wash hands. I recall my late father had noticed traces of annoyance and irritation so much so that couple of times he would shout and say “Are Chinese soldiers after you that you are in the habit of finishing your dinner so quickly?” (Unfortunately the habit of finishing food quickly and getting up from the dining table still continues even when guests are around). Perhaps the Chinese aggression of1962 was fresh in his mind. As I grew, I turned out to be an impatient young man who dreamt all the time to achieve a lot withi

  “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”.     

 

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                                                Why Be  Judgmental  ?                                              Credit-Andrey Zvyagintsey (Unsplash) A lot of time I have been thinking why most people are usually being judgmental .  I feel we first need to know what we mean by being judgmental . To me, being judgmental  is evaluating   a person critically. This is being negative, harmful and spreading unhelpful aura around. It is true that we all have normal positive and negative thoughts. But being judgmental , I feel spoils the relationships and increases enmity and bad feelings around us. I am of the opinion that generally there are two main types of judgmental  persons. One who expresses critical views in the absence of the person and behind his/her back. This I feel is backbiting which is negative behavior . The person is not there in person to counter the critical views. In the second instance when the critical views are discussed in front of the person, it normally leads to ba

                     YES I AM JUDGEMENTAL!                                AREN’T YOU?                                                                                  Credit-Marcel Straub (Unsplash) In my long years of corporate working and also amongst my family / relations/ friends, I don’t remember if anyone in the recent past ever mentioned even in a lighter mood that I was being judgmental.   Yes couple of times my children did opine “ Come on Papa you seem to be  Judgmental .”  I was honestly taken aback and spent day thinking as to what ‘being judgmental ’ meant in my personal framework. I realized that despite best efforts to keep it safe, yet most people consciously/ unconsciously judge and critically review others every now and then. It might be for small issues like walking style, presentation, socializing, dressing sense, work performance, body language etc.  It may be even  for bigger issues such as lack of empathy/ emotional warmth, aggressive conduct/ relationship sens