Have you stumbled upon an old friend? Seeing someone doing the same thing or speaking the same words as you? Or maybe experienced an accident? Are you thinking ‘Oh! What a coincidence!’ or ‘I could skip accidents like this…’ Well, you shouldn’t, because every single coincidence brings a message to you. In fact, there are…
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Mind Body
Reaction to negativity
All the water of sea can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship..similarly negative of world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you
Tongue like a sharp knife
Buddha says: “The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.” We all must be very careful while saying anything specially unpleasant things.
Delusion
“A man was forcing his way through a thick forest beset with thorns and stones. Suddenly to his great consternation, an elephant appeared and gave chase. He took to his heels through fear, and seeing a well, he ran to hide in it. But to his horror he saw a viper at the bottom of…
Confucius
Confucius say: Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
We become what we think
Buddha says: We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves
THE BLACK DOT
A small town chamber of commerce invited a speaker to address its annual dinner. The community’s economy was bad, people were discouraged, and they wanted this motivational speaker to give them a boost. During her presentation, the speaker took a large piece of white paper and made a small black dot in the centre of…
Who am I?
Aristotle once said “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” The first step towards wisdom leads me to the question Who Am I? It is simply the most complicated question in the world. Let me explore for the possible answers: My name is Ashish Chowdhury, with my name alone nobody can know me, and…
Karma: Conscious choice-making
Gautam Buddha once said everything that is happening to us at this moment is a result of the karma we have accumulated in the past. All our karma are the choices that we make, whenever we do any karma. Whether we agree or not, most of us make these choices unconsciously, and therefore we don’t…
Giving and Receiving
The universe operates as a dynamic exchange. Nothing in the universe is static; everything flows even though it may seem to be still or static. Life itself is the continuum of consciousness in spiritual sense and it is the continuity of the process of breathing in physical realm. Nature manifests itself only through the flow…