Category: New Zealand
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What Is Vipassana?
What is Vipassana, and how does it compare with the Yogas? This piece situates Vipassana within Buddhism as an insight discipline—training observation and equanimity—then contrasts it with Raja (concentration), Bhakti (devotion), Karma (action), and Jnana (inquiry). It outlines method, aims, and practical benefits, notes where Hatha/Tantra support practice, and offers beginner pointers without giving away…
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Thoreau, Bhagvad Gītā, and Jung : On Solitude
Overview In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau walked into the woods with a borrowed axe and a stubborn idea that if he simplified his life to the bone, he might hear what a human life is actually saying. On the edge of Walden Pond, a mile or so from Concord, he built a one-room cabin,…
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Memoir Of Strength, Resilience & Resistance In The Face Of Corruption
A fierce, contemplative memoir of being labelled “vexatious” for exposing corruption and for refusing to break laws. Across twenty three years of filings, vanished evidence, threats, intimidation, harassment and sanctions in open courts and behind closed doors, one woman’s passage from trembling pro se to unflinching advocate for social justice, shows how procedure can be…
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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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Of pimps and (a)dharmic men….
! What prompted me to write today is a look at the signature on my email account, a dream sequence of Draupdi’s cheerharan, and an altercation with the dharmic police (in reverse order). My email signature is an ancient Indian proverb “Yatra Naryastu Pujyanta, Ramate Tatra Devata” – literally meaning, where women are worshiped/respected, divinity…
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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…
Madhu Sameer 