Wrong Kind of Silence

Knowing People

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Do Not Be One Of Them!

Our Origin?

Lately, I have been visiting temples (Hindu largely) for a number of reasons…And I get the feeling that I am at a place of “Origins”…In fact, the main idol in Hindu temples (representing power below it)  is in a place identified as garbagriha (“womb chamber”), a windowless, dark chamber, "representing" the power of the womb.  As you walk deep into the temple sacred space on the East-West axis, until you are under the main vimana, you get closer and closer to the "point" of Origins, a dedicated point…a point of undisturbed focus and attention, a point of  annihilation and cure, a point of energy and creation, a point of sound, light, consolation and hope...   

Of Masks and Honesty

"...sometimes we do not really change...just that 

our masks fall off...the cosmetics we wear 

peel off...the ideals we profess vanish....

revealing who we really are... 

allowing us a moment of critical self-reflection..."

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Marooned Orphans

Extinguishing a Family Line

For many years, I thought I knew what ‘extinction’ was. I was so, so wrong!

I lost a person very dear to me some years ago. Fortunately, he left two children to continue him. But then, the all-mighty Time decided to snatch that two children too…Death followed Death followed Death…And, suddenly the whole family line was wiped out right in front of me: Isn’t that what happens in extinction...without any opportunity for continuity? How does any one even start to make sense of this kind of loss?