Babies cry. Sometimes little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes when we least expect them to. And sometimes when we least want them to. As parents, we care for them, but get frustrated when they don’t stop crying. Parents try everything to soothe the baby, some steps work, other’s don’t. Some work sometimes, and sometimes not. So …
Zen stories. They bring back fond memories. Of times I spent with my master – sometimes in larger groups, other times just with the uchideshis – live-in students. Kancho – my master – used to conduct meditation discourses, and in between the philosophy, we used to wait eagerly for the Zen stories to make their …
A few days back, someone told me that they had received credible information (via WhatsApp), that Sita had not actually travelled to Lanka. The story goes that she created an avatar of herself, and Ravana then took her along instead. Hmmm… Anyways, my response was – what does it matter if she went to Lanka, …
A hectic day today. I had calls with three new clients, all of who are investment advisors, and target the retail segment. In English, you and me. People who make a modest living and struggle to handle their finances. Hence the experts. Finances – so simple, yet so complicated. People who make an obscene amount …
I was at the dentist today. It’s so bad nowadays, so bad that I qualified for the clinic’s in-house rewards program. No I am serious. They have invested quite a bit (or so they think) into tech, and this includes a WhatsApp bot (intelligent they say, Bot I say) to schedule appointments, an app to …
Food. Yesterday – none of it. Today – too much of it. Yesterday was Ekādashi, and as usual, I fasted the whole day and night, with water and a banana when I felt the pangs. Today, as usual, I woke up and broke the fast with simple food that I cooked myself, and then had …
“In breathing, as in everything in life, the numbers are staggering—indeed fantastical. Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that’s 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day’s breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived.” “And every …
We love our watches, don’t we? Yes, their significance in actual timekeeping may have lessened, given the number of digital devices we have on us, but a watch is still a watch. Smart or not. So which watch is the best in the world? The obvious answer may be the one that keeps best time …
And we are in election mode again. Unless the “one nation one election” proposal is implemented, this election process will continue throughout the year, year-on-year, perpetually. One set of assembly elections gets over, panchayat elections take over. Then another set of assembly, and so on and so forth, until the Lok Sabha elections, and then …
ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and names, and …
