Don't teach me tradition
I am a programmer, that’s what I do for a living. But my lifestyle is quite different now than it used to be when I started my career. I started working back in 2005, so that is 15 years now. I am 34 years old. I worked constantly until 2012, the first couple of years in Bangalore, India. And then I moved to the UK…
We are satisfied with words, explanations. We see an object and name it, feel an emotion and name it. Never facing the emotion, or seeing the object. We name and dismiss, it is an automatic habitual process for most of us. See a flower, name it so, but never actually look at it. We see the explanation and not the flower. This is how we…
So I have been doing this alternate daily fast. The intent is to lose weight, I am currently at 75.9 kilograms. When I started doing fasting about 4 weeks ago, I am in my fourth week, when I started I weighed 80 something. I am seeing that I am losing about 1 kilogram every week. Granted that the first few kilos would have been just…
One asks, ‘how do I overcome my anger?’ Is that an intelligent question? Or is that merely a continuation of anger. Being angry one asks ‘how do I overcome my anger’ The question itself becomes stupid. It is the wrong question. Merely in the loop, the continuity of anger. The question has the background of past experience and prejudice. Maybe it is that anger is…
In 2013 I decided to change my lifestyle. The emphasis is on “decided”, going through it all the way through, is another question. Anyway, one thing that sticked is the travel. I left my leased apartment in central London, in warren street, and booked a one-way ticket to Thailand. And I returned after nearly a year of roaming. Did n’t do a plenty lot, went…
I don’t agree with the early posts on this blog that I’ve written. I cringe when I read them. How could I have been that stupid? The thing is I am not sure about the things I write, I think and certain things kinda make sense. I write about that. Then again the same thing does not apply to a different area if you know…
Set an intention – the spiritual teacher said. It is all about intention. Set your intentions before meditation. that’s when you have to seriously question, whether the so-called spiritual teacher knows anything about meditation. I know something about meditation. And it is not that. The intention is a product of thought. And meditation is anything but thought. Intention creates effort. Because it sets an expectation….
So, I am a programmer, right? And I have been doing it for a long time. It is a 9-5 job. I am lucky when I get a remote contract, that allows me to travel and work from anywhere in the world. Here is my current lifestyle. I contract with several companies for a duration of 3-6 months at a time and then travel for…
How do I do something? I often ask that. At my work I ask, ‘how do I code this piece of software’? In relationships, I ask, ‘How do I communicate this thing to her’, ‘How do I ask someone out’, ‘how do I approach someone’, ‘How do I communicate this to my family’, ‘How do I tell her that I am angry?’ ‘How’ implies planning….