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Who are you when you are asleep?
When you are in deep sleep, Are you male or female? Are you rich or poor? Are you happy or sad? Are you successful or failure? Are you beautiful or ugly? Where do the dualities and dichotomies exist? If they exist and unexist Are they real? If they could disappear in your sleep, Do they…
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Who is a good teacher?
A good teacher is one whose goal is to make himself unnecessary. If you always need the teacher, that’s a bad teacher. If you always need the driving instructor to be in the car, that’s a bad driving instructor. The goal of a teacher should always be to make himself unnecessary, redundant. A true teacher…
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You are a billionaire
I read this on Twitter/X and thought this message is really valuable for the readers of my blog, too. So wanted to share this with you all here. The author of this is not definitely I (not yet a billionaire 😀) and the credit should entirely go to George Mack who goes by @george_mack on…
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Who are you?
You are the present, you are the moment, you are the awareness. In fact, you are the one who is aware of awareness. Who are you? That’s the only koan you ever need.
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WINNING IN REAL LIFE
Spirituality is not for everyone. The spirituality page will blow your mind, and will make you quit the system rather than win and have fun in the system. The playground is there for you to pretend and play. Spirituality makes you get out of the playground. You don’t need that. What you need is tips…
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Story Series: Story 5
All stories are unreal. Even real stories are unreal. His new name was Shyam and it was a misnomer. He is white, and he is not enlightened. Apparently, he picked this new name after he joined a Hare Krishna movement or something and became a tourist to India for a couple of weeks. He felt…
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Story Series: Story 4
All stories are unreal. Even real stories are unreal. You told me that some movies are enlightened, right?” she asks. “Wow, is that a thing? Can movies become enlightened too?” “Come on, you know what I mean. You said that some movies have how can I put it, enlightenment value, right?” “I know what you…
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Story Series: Story 3
All stories are unreal. Even real stories are unreal. She was still unsatisfied after having finished reading the brief history of time by Stephen Hawkings and complained “Who made universe first though? Because it started from big bang, who initiated it? And who provided the basic laws of physics? I mean who gave the basic…
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Story Series: Story 2
All stories are unreal. Even real stories are unreal. AN EVENING WITH WALT WHITMAN (All words in italics are from the book “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman. This story presumes you know who Walt Whitman is and have read his poem called Leaves of Grass. If not, please read it first. You can read…
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Story Series: Story 1
No stories are real. Even real stories are unreal. All stories in this series are about a fictional “I” character. I have a friend called Aman. Aman is the right name for him because he is a man. A man. A typical man. What is a man, anyway? A typical man, IMO, is no different…
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Poem 1
When you have nothing, you are the richest When you have no place to abide, you are Home When you know nothing, you are the wisest When you have nothing to accomplish, you are Done. When you are asleep to the waking life, you are Awake. When you have lost everything, you have gained the…
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Ongoing Ramblings
This maybe me shouting into the void, but I need to get these musings out. Someone once asked Papaji, “Whats the difference between you and me? Why do you get to sit on the chair and we sit on the floor?” Papaji responds, “Those who believe in differences belong on the floor. Those who do…
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Borrowed Wisdom 2
Read Borrowed Wisdom 1 and preface here. From Jed McKenna: That’s what non attachment really is. All of life becomes like watching a soap opera full of characters you don’t care about in a language you don’t understand, but there’s nothing else to do so you watch. The awakened being has not awakened to reality,…
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What is the Point of Life?
We have asked this question many times, haven’t we? I assume everybody at some point in their lives do ask what the point of life is. Why are they on earth? Why is there a universe? Why something instead of nothing? Well, I used to be troubled by these questions. So, I assumed everybody at…
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Borrowed Wisdom 1
Just wanted to share some relevant spiritual wisdom I have read in other sources. Not to make it too long, I will divide this into different posts. Borrowed Wisdom 1, Borrowed Wisdom 2, etc. My own sentences are in normal font. Borrowed wisdoms are in italic. The essence of Karma-Yoga is relinquishing the fruits of…
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BOTTOM LINE
This post represents the synthesis of everything I got to say about spirituality and enlightenment. This is my most direct message to you. I can not get any more direct than this. Everything else is a different way of saying this.
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What is Self?
Apart from thoughts, there’s no such thing as mind. Apart from thoughts, there’s no independent entity called the world. Of all thoughts that arise in the body, the I-thought is the first. The irony is that the person glimpsing this moment of higher consciousness, this Oneness, encounters the ultimate realization that there is nothing to…
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Happiness, Sex, Health, and Death
We crave happiness because we think it is the ultimate goal of life. And we think happiness comes out of fulfilling our desires. But happiness is not the fulfillment of desire. Rather, it is the desirelessness that gives happiness. Some people pursue spiritual enlightenment for all the wrong reasons, and then pursue the path using…
Bishal Gyawali 