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A Quiet Practice of Fasting
Fasting during Ramadan It’s been over 26 years since I began living in Dubai, UAE. I arrived here at the age of 26, which means I’ve now spent almost half my life in Kolkata and the other half here in Dubai. That in itself feels significant—two ho ...
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A Quiet Practice of Fasting
Fasting during Ramadan It’s been over 26 years since I began living in Dubai, UAE. I arrived here at the age of 26, which means I’ve now spent almost half my ...
Viewing the rites of Cremation in Pashupathinath
Day 5 of the Nepal Yoga Retreat. It is the 15th of April, Bengali New Year! The last destination on our Itinerary was a visit to the Pashupathinath Temple i ...
To suffer or not to suffer, that is the practise
The Lord Buddha found the path leading us out of suffering. He said 1. There is suffering, 2. there is a cause why we suffer, 3. this suffering can be aband ...
Right Effort: Samma Vayama
‘Sama Vayamo’ or Right Effort is often overlooked when we start on a path of meditation. Our thoughts create the narrative of our lives. Often ...
Kisa Gotami : Therighata (Poems of the Elder Nuns)
The Therigatha, the ninth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 73 poems — in which the early nuns (bhikkhunis) recount their struggles and accomplishments a ...
The Contentment of Concentration
As the attention rests on the flow of life the pulse of being all the tentacles and suckers get drawn back in, moving outwards we seek, suck ave ...
Meditating on the Body
Listening to Ajahn Achalo’s talk earlier about meditating on body parts got me thinking. True i find it easy to drop into a quieter space when i feel the body. ...
Spinning around in Samsara
Drawn out of sage-like composure By the promise of love and loss Should I return to the wisdom of knowing Or indulge yet again in the chaos of Pain and Plea ...
5 Nivaranas that hinder our progress to Nibbāna
The Pali term nīvaraṇa (Sanskrit: nivāraṇa) refers to an obstacle or hinderance. In the Nīvaraṇa Sutta (AN 9:64) the Buddha says “Mendicants, these five hind ...
Developing a Chanting Practice
My first experience of chanting was at the Yoga Teacher's Training Course at Yogapoint. It was way back in 2007, I enrolled for the month-long course to dive de ...
Right to Choose…with Right View
The Right to Choose. Often we shout and fight for rights but forget about responsibility. This is a contentious subject and in writing my view and experience I ...
Practice is the blessing
I recently put up a photo of Guruji BKS Iyengar and Geetaji on my shrine. As I was about to begin my zoom class the other day, i felt quite moved by the privile ...