This blog series tries to muse about the practice of Presence inspired from my Teacher Eckhart Tolle. I am fortunate enough to be one of the students of his School of Awakening!
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Operating Constraint
The other blog, Grand Hallucination, lays out the foundation or the posture. This blog makes it purely existential. A Manual for Existing in an Open System. Reality is not a system with a solution.It is a process that cannot be fully compressed. Prediction is a constructed projection.Not because it is useless,but because it assumes closure Read More
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The Grand Hallucination: Why Prediction, Empathy, and Communication Are Illusions
“Prediction itself is hallucination.” It is a startling thought, but if we look closely at the nature of reality, it is the only logical conclusion. We live our lives convinced that if we just have enough data, enough insurance, and enough strategy, we can map out the future. We treat life like a mechanics problem Read More
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Qualities for Rightful Action
As we know a cross in Christianity connotes 2 things. Permanence (Nitya) and Impermanence (Anitya). Also we call them vertical and horizontal dimensions of The Reality. There are some qualities that are associated with Nitya and others which are associated with Anitya. Qualities that I need to reflect in horizontal vs vertical dimensions: Sensitivity vs Read More
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Quality of My Consciousness
“The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.” Eckhart Tolle No, it’s neither about “Theory of Consciousness” in Psychology, nor it is about the “Quality Consciousness” required in every individual to become the most active and productive in the Read More
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Deep Listening
Listening skill is often cited as the primary skill of a good Leader. And rightly so. However, what does it mean? For example, could it mean a leader is supposed to just listen to you while keeping his views unchanged? Or could it mean a leader should apply his mind to “correctly” filter the noise Read More
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inTOLLErance!
It is a common observation or experience. Some saint, yogi, philosopher, or person shares with everyone what he found, or what he realized that made him happy forever or enlightened. He always shares this for the benefit of all. And really, it might help somebody get inspired and it could make him follow the path Read More
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Journey Of Passion!
As we begin our spiritual journey towards being Present, our passion also evolves and becomes dispassion and ultimately settles in becoming Compassion! First we need passion. A burning desire to understand root cause, the Ego, burning desire to understand the Truth, Awareness! In this journey, passion slowly becomes dispassion. Dispassion is an important virtue, however Read More
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What is Presence?
In the last blog, we tried to go through the process of Awakening which leads us to Being Present. A Cross in Christianity connotes 2 dimensions that are called form and formless, unconscious and conscious, illusory and real, human and divine, horizontal and vertical, time and timeless, temporary and permanent, physical and metaphysical and so Read More
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Awakening and Optimisation
I am very privileged to have got an opportunity to attend the program “Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening”. I read his book “A New Earth” 11 years back. It completely shifted my thinking, or so to say, my association with thinking. It helped me recognise the ego and its all pervading nature. It’s undoubtedly the Read More
Reinvent The Self! 