It is not compulsory!
Compulsory this word, we imbibe it too much from early age. First time we get acquainted with it is in the first standard exam – ” All questions are compulsory! ” And then it starts everywhere- uniform is compulsory… Eating green vegetables are compulsory… Studying four hours is compulsory… and so on till you think […]
Is that so? A story of flexiblity
We all face number of problems every day. Some stick to us harder than chewing gum on a pole, but if we look closely we are the ones who are holding them close. We want everything to get over soon and happiness to come without solving the issues. It is a story of a Zen […]
Beginner’s Mind
When I was studying in college, there was a 30 ft. tall tree near my math class. I never paid attention to it, then one day there was an evening, sun was setting, sky had beautiful orange shade, weather was very calm. Every leaf of the tree was lit slowly in orange shade by the […]
Being Unchained: Part 2
It is very easy to say I am free, but are we really free? Often people misunderstand freedom with power, once in a park near my bench two elderly men were discussing about freedom. One kept ranting about his neighbor had freedom to get another woman because his wife would obey him all the time, […]
Being unchained: Part 1
From some days a thought kept repeating in my mind after seeing certain situations in life of others and mine. We jail ourselves in our invisible bindings and we don’t even realize it. This thought reminded me of the story in Indian mythology about “Kalpataru tree”. In short, story is about a businessman on one […]