Category: Counseling
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The Matrix Of The Mind (Part III)
This is the concluding portion of the Trilogy Matrix of the Mind. It explores the totality of the mind, and the wisdom inherent in remaining in the “here and now” of mindfulness.
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The Matrix of Our Mind (Part – I)
Namo Tassa Bagawato Arahato Sammasambuddhasa Dedicated with gratitude, reverence and supplication to the meditations that have enabled the investigations and in-depth, personal experience of the matrix of my own mind. When I first saw them at the turn of the century, the Matrix trology left a very deep impression on my mind. The Wachowski brothers…
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Why is Graceful Aging becoming such a passe…?
A personal experience of aging, by someone who is speeding across 55….and loving every moment of it.
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The Underappreciated Mooladhara…..
Kundalini – The serpent power associated with wisdom, grace and power
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Be the Change…
There has been a lot of controversy lately about the role of Gandhi in the liberation of India. Regardless, Gandhi’s contributions, along with his quotes, reverberate and resonate across the world even now, decades after his death. One of the quotes that I often meditate on, and which has guided me in my personal life, is…
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On Spiders and Bugs…
Lately, I have had neither time, nor the emotional strength to write much. I suppose when one is overwhelmed with stress (which I suppose is a short word for distress), the psyche tries to conserves all intellectual energies in service of survival. All creative endeavors, that would lead to optimal health, become secondary to survival…
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Dark Emotions : The nature of Fear
Fear is a distressing emotion aroused by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger and flee from it or fight, also known as the Fight or Flight response. Some…
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Schrodinger’s Cat : Not This, Not That
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” – Isaac Asimov Here is a post I wrote up a little while ago, but had forgotten to make visible. I had initially jotted down these ideas in order to prepare a paper for the Consciousness Conference in Tucson, but eventually did not present at the…
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Transformations Thru Creativity
I love gardening. I simply love it. And I love growing roses in my garden. I currently have over 200 of them. When they bloom together in early spring, I feel I am in heaven. Thousands and thousands of happy rosebuds open themselves up to the elements in a display that is beyond words. My…
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Of Mothers and Sons
My son was recently cast as Aladdin in the musical of the same name. It was a matter of great pride, and personal joy for me. A sense of fulfillment, like one would have when their child graduates from college. I felt his success was my reward for years of meditation. It made me think…
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Karmic Justice
For some reason, this blog, the blog about Karmic Justice, published quite some time ago, has been making news in the blog statistics. It has been meaningful to me during this interval, a beacon of light that I myself read often. It is something that allows me to stay the course of ethics, and morality,…
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The Culture of War and Aggression
The thoughts expressed in this weblog are different from the usual psychological insights that I share with the readers. These thoughts have constelled over last few years/months, as I experienced disturbances in interpersonal relationships with colleagues. These disturbances were all related to differences in ethical and moral standards. I tried to understand those aberrant, unethical,…
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Honesty, Integrity and Trust….
A few days ago Karin wrote a wonderful blog on trust, that started me thinking about the construction of trust as well. What is trust, do we ever stop to think of what the word actually represents ? I mean what does it contain, beyond the word-symbol ? Trust is a composite feeling that we experience…
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Deal Making with children : Impact on Adult Personality
I started this blog around the time Channel 33 had scheduled an interview with me about childrens problems. But it took a while to get it here. When I get a feeling of being manipulated, I am deeply resentful. To some others, manipulative behavior may be just a normal, “reasonable” and “logical” way of relating. It even represents decent, civilised behavior…
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Happy Independence Day India
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. Vande Mataram!” Independence – The word…
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I will have 1 connection for dinner, thank you…!
I recently attended a mid year dinner with a group of colleagues at a nice Chinese restaurant. Round table, great ambiance, the usual small talk, some big talk, marketing issues, and other stuff. Next day we discussed it some in supervision – my take on such processes, and my experience of bonding through such a group meet. This is an analysis of my…
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Karmic Justice II
yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham SYNONYMS yada–whenever; yada–wherever; hi–certainly; dharmasya–of religion; glanih–discrepancies; bhavati–manifested, becomes; bharata–O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthanam–predominance; adharmasya–of irreligion; tada–at that time; atmanam–self; srjami–manifest; aham–I. TRANSLATION Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion–at…
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On Aging, Death and Dying
I haven’t been writing much lately. It seems that the words have died, that there is a dearth of meaningful emotions, of consciousness. In exchange, and as a compensation for that lack, I have experienced a slew of defensive strategies unfolding in my psyche, pushed into the external world. The psyche, it seemed, went round doing the…
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Whoever thought our hobbies could be analyzable?
I used to be a camera freak between the age of 16 and 40. Alwyas glued to my camera inside or outside. Would not leave my house without a camera. Wild horses couldn’t drag me to a vacation, or a picnic without my camera. Never!!! I’d rather not go if I couldn’t take pictures. And then suddenly around…
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Further Thoughts on Hope…
I had planned on writing a more detailed expose on Hope after my return, but demands on my time are many, and so for now my psyche can only bring forth this brief piece. I am confident that the rest will show up in some shape or form in my subsequent writings, for the part of…
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Perceptions of Time
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” -Albert Einstein Long ago, around the year 2001/2002, I went to my first Vipassana meditation retreat, where I had some extremely powerful experiences. It was there, amidst the eternal silence of the majestic redwoods, the pure mountain…
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The dynamic dance of Non-duality & Separation
For a long time, I have been wanting to write about the dance of duality and non duality that engages us in our everyday life even if we have little awareness of the moves. I had abundant experiences but few words to describe them – perhaps they were not organized into cognition. For an unknown…
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Patterns of Silence
Just a quick note based on something I wrote to a friend’s daughter about problems in Kashmir. A Jungian tale I recently heard, a marker for our times. Once there was a severe drought in a village. There was no water, so all vegetation died, and there was no food for people. The cattle started dying…
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The Observer and Observed Effect
I don’t have much to write this week, except about a personal experience and resulting insight. So this will ramble, but bear with me, please. I noticed during my meditation that thoughts arose in my mind only as a consequence of the differentiation between the Observer and the Observed. As long as I am able to separate the…
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The Basic Problem in Anorexia
I felt a bit overwhelmed writing my last blog about Sita, and needed to recharge in a way that would allow the process to unfold at a slower pace, in a more holistic way. The archetype of Sita is such a strong one, and it resonates with almost every women in some shape or form, and…
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The Morphed Psyche : Developmental Perspectives on Hate
Hate! Such a strong word, vibrant and alive in its texture, like a crudely cemented floor, so uncomfortable to walk on bare foot. It causes wounds whenever and wherever your feet touch it. What is it? How do we get into it? How is it first created? How is it perpetuated? And what can we…
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Disconnection and Sex
Sex is such a pervasive element of our adulthood, of our existence, and we accept it as a characteristic of human existence. That one will grow up, and have sexual feelings is a given. But we never explore how these sexual feelings came into being within the human psyche. And what if it were a derived…
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Intention of religious philosophies and how we process our thoughts
A brief exploration into the objectives and intentionalities of philosphy, religion, spirituality thru the lens of processing strategies of the mind. Arising out of a discussion on the Krishnamurti board. Why is that religion and science are always at loggerheads with each other? Why is that that we get completely opposite views from these two…
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Dismembering the goddess : Effects of gender wars and marital failures on young adults
Abstract for a paper being prepared for presentation/publication Though feminists claim to have opened up the world for women, numerous positive and life enhancing qualities of the feminine aspect of human nature, especially the spiritual dimension of the feminine, has been denigrated by the very feminist leaders who claim to speak for all women. A…
Madhu Sameer 