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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 homes, ...
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 in Katmandu Nepal. Regarded as the biggest Hindu temple in Nepal. Lord Shiva in the form of Lord ...
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 abandoned, 4. and here is the path that will lead you out of suffering. This is the simple yet profo ...
‘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 we inherit these thinking patterns or develop them as a reaction to the world. It is important ...
The Therigatha, the ninth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 73 poems — in which the early nuns (bhikkhunis) recount their struggles and accomplishments along the road to final liberation or arahantship. These are very human stories. They express ...
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 avert push away..forever caught in a world of push pull…of trains travelling through different sta ...
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. The body contemplation is a bit like that. When we look at the body and think it is beautiful o ...
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 Pleasure He says “yes” my heart jumps up Happiness, Joy, Exuberance flows out He says “no” Pa ...
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 hindrances (nīvaraṇas) are destroyers of sight, vision, and knowledge. They block wisdom, they’re o ...
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 deeper into the practice of yoga. I was very much married to my job those days and years would pa ...