Sometimes when we feel we know something or achieved something extraordinary, we need to stare at the endless night sky or walk in a forest alone. You see, stars and forests have their way of making you feel less important, right away. This is different from the feeling of unimportance…

From the depths of our heart, if we can get ourselves to stand in front of a plant and say: “like a mother, you nourish us. While you sustain yourself, you cause no destruction. I bow down to your wisdom and we, as a species, have a lot to learn…

Sometimes we may like something not because we like it, but because we dislike something else. This conditional liking can be seen in terms of our passion, career choices and goals. When our passion and life goals don’t come from the deepest realms of our being, we are bound to…

The wish of a poor man to move to a city and earn more, goes beyond his basic necessities. Many of us want to become rich not because we love luxury. Being rich is a way we choose to reclaim our lost freedom, acceptance and respect from others. With all…

With an aspiration to find a way out of suffering for all beings, prince Siddhartha left behind the royal life to dwell in a forest. Being a prince, his tender feet never stepped on thorny paths nor did he ever have to endure storms and rains. In the forest, when…

During my childhood, without a single electronic gadget around, people just used to wait calmly in the bus stop or at home. They would sit and look at the sky or just rest with their heads bent low. If a small baby comes to hug such a person, the baby…

Suppose you’re a smoker and one day you’re bored and you happened to look deeply into the statement: “smoking is injurious to health” that can be a moment of enlightenment already. Similarly you maybe stepping into the elevator and you see: “not more than 5 people”. You know that being…

When we read something tough and abstract we have a habit of calling such a text profound/esoteric. The fact that our profoundest ideas can’t be often communicated to little children is an invitation to look deeply into the very nature of our ideas and our daily life. We may think…

We often feel that though we are good we can’t do much with our little goodness because we are one person. If we take time to look deeply into the nature of goodness, we shall see that sanctity of one single being has the potential to liberate oceans of hells…