Friday, 11 April 2014

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..."

 (Adapted from Karl Marx, EPM 1844)