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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…
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KOANS
Koans are important expedient measures to encourage the prepared minds to suddenly see the truth by unseeing the false and realizing the futility of efforts. These koans were popularized in the Zen tradition of Buddhism- both Soto and Rinzai sects, but mostly in the Rinzai sect. These Koans are usually in the form of questions,…
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GOD
People spend their entire lives seeking God. Scientists and religious people fight over the “evidences” for existence or absence of God. Many fights have occurred and many lives have been lost in the name of God. However, all these pursuits of finding God are misguided because they assume God is something to be found. But…
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Sacchidananda
This post is dedicated to one of my childhood friends Sacchidananda I had a friend during my childhood whose name was Sacchidananda. He never liked his name, and was upset with his parents who chose such a difficult name for their child. Not easy to pronounce or to spell. We used to tease him for…
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In the World but not Of the World
Don’t be anything or anybody; just be The silliest thing about enlightenment is the amount of hard work it requires to be enlightened. People practice for several years and yet get only a glimpse of it. This is something that people can’t buy no matter how rich they are- so in that sense this is…
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The Razor’s Edge
Have you seen the movie The Razor’s Edge? I highly recommend it. It’s one of those movies that I liked so much that I read the book after seeing the movie, because I didn’t want to miss a single good line. This has happened a few times, where the movie impressed me so much that…
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Kalama Sutta
Although these were taught by Buddha to his disciples on methods of enquiry, this is equally valid for any scientific enquiry as well. Do not simply believe what you hear just because you have heard it for a long time. Do not follow tradition blindly merely because it has been practiced in that way for…
Bishal Gyawali 