Friday, October 12, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Liking someone vs. being comfortable with them
You might really not like a person that much after trying your best to accept them and adapt with them. And then there are family members who you didn't like ever since you remember. But the comfort that develops among people despite disagreements is an incredible aspect of human relationships.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Hearing silence and the noise
If you hear silence amid noise, at all those times that you do, you're in touch with the higher self.
Doesn't it happen so many times. That you're in the midst of a crowd & suddenly feel detached. And have a moment of peaceful silence? The kind that might be experienced at some places amid nature which have a positive energy vibration. That which is actually heard.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Rains and Pune
Love the rains, love the city of Pune and especially so when it rains.
But so many conditions apply to each of these "love"s.
I wouldn't love the rains as much if they were as hard here as in some coastal areas, so that everything is so humid it leaves the floor sort of sticky and a hint of fungus can be smellt on walls and cushions.
And I would dread the rains if I was living in cabin-like houses where water entered through the entrance and leaked through the tin sheets above and I didn't have the place to dry out my laundry. Wouldn't have many clothes to wash so drying them wouldn't be such a big problem. Drying my person would be a greater one.
Why can't I just enjoy anything without thinking of someone who wouldn't be privileged to enjoy something like it?
Why does there always have to be someone like that?
But thinking of the above I would probably love Pune anyhow, even if I lived here as a beggar on her streets.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
What's the point of it all
In spite of which I do this silly act of putting it down here in this blog. Futility feeds futility which in turn feeds some more futility. But we don't stop living do we?
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Judgement made versus insight had
Thinking in this way takes a lot less effort than to be wary of the activity in the mind. Of the minute ripples that appear almost unnoticed while interacting with people every day. Or thinking about them.
But those muscles around your eyes, face or neck don't fail to notice who you like and who you don't.
A - is easy, and comes with a loss of insight into people and what happens around us
B - takes constant effort. But is a fun game to play with yourself.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Monday blues
It's a Monday, and it is cloudy July weather, exceptional with the lack of rain in my city this year. Just need to get out and come to office, and the blues recede by themselves. Next day you're a complete contrast, tricked into looking forward to go work because of all that which awaits your attention.
But I'm thankful I have somewhere to go work.
:-|
Friday, July 13, 2012
Wisdom life offers
There's always lessons around. It takes a lot of laziness shed in order to let these reach inside the mind, to be thought upon and processed. And will to bring about change in our actions and thought patterns. And persistence to keep this habitual.
The inspiration for this post was a speech by Dr. Ashok D Ranade about his guru in music, musician and artiste Pandit Gajananbuwa Joshi, at the occasion of the stalwart's 75th birthday celebrations.
Any word from my mind about Dr. Ranade seems small, inappropriate and unbefitting his greatness. So it seems appropriate that I don't get into details of what I learnt from that particular speech of his.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Gossip, outside and within
Gossip, chatter, idle talk. On people, or happenings about. There's one that is carried out between two or more people. And another that is carried out within one's mind.
The latter is something always available. 24 by 7. You don't need to find time for it, or company. Idle talk has much more potential to cause damage when it does rounds in the mind than in conversations.
Makes the mind dull. And capable only of being dull.
Stopping idle talk within results in a natural resilience to that outside. And a constructive, productive mind.
Friday, July 6, 2012
What is beyond my influence
This has to be an exercise done constantly within the mind. As we untangle ourselves from the bothers we get so used to living with, there's contentment and joy. And a lightening of the heart, but also an emptiness. Emptiness without a negative connotation. Just neutral emptiness.
Nothing to obsess upon. The things that might seem worth allowing to occupy the mind time and again, such as an art or an intellectual or social pursuit might not feel very important at times. There are these moments when nothing seems that important.
That is when the search might begin for some, for what seems true and ever-important, that which only matters.
Monday, July 2, 2012
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
चांगलं गाणं आणि सर्वानुमते "रंगलेलं" गाणं
Expression via "graph"iti. Inspired by Jessica Hagy's blog at http://thisisindexed.com/.
Quality art music vs. what gets public patronage, black-and-white vs. grey, concretely defined vs. relative.
At any point in time, appreciation of a presentation of art would depend upon the "appreciative index" of the audience.