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Tag Archives: philosophy
Leave it broken
Along a sombre winter roadI felt this life a heavy loadA robin blown upon a treeBegan to sing, it seemed, to me. “Stay the hand that would repairThe heart’s old wounds, Each cut and tear.Hear the deathless love well spokenStay … Continue reading
My grandmother’s wallpaper as embedded wisdom code
Did you plant a secret wisdom code in your childhood and set it to sprout at a crucial moment years later? Continue reading
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I’m getting used to not being alone. The space between things lighter, Less weighted by my own clumsy translations. For so long, the evenings have stretched like minefields until I tripped into bed, Exhausted or exploded. Now, they’re wine violet … Continue reading
The end of the inner selfie
We have come to regard the universe as little more than our personal Paparazzi, with lenses zooming in and out in relation to our activities on the World Stage. Every ‘click’ is another reassurance that we are somehow solid, permanent and important. It is our misery that deserves the most attention. It is our happiness that is the most desirable. But how is this possible on a planet of almost seven billion people? Continue reading
Posted in epoche
Tagged advaita, auto rickshaw, Buddhism, celebrity, constellations, desert, Desert Fathers, extras, India, Jaisalmer, Jesus, Jodhpur, journal, Milky Way, non-duality, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Paparazzi, philosophy, Qawwali, Raj, Rajasthan, self-inquiry, selfie, solo female traveler, spirituality, Swami Atmananda, Thar desert, travel, travel writing
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Cloudburst – drenched in euphemism
The retired Major lifted his scotch to his moustache with a sober pause. It was July 2013, just a few weeks after the terrible floods in Uttarakhand; the worse national disaster India had endured since the 2004 Tsunami, and the subject … Continue reading
Posted in epoche
Tagged 2013, angry god, cloudburst, Dehradun, floods, higher power, Himalayas, India, monsoon, philosophy, religion, science, Shiva, travel, Uttarakhand
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