Shunya – Nothingness

Mindfulness or mindlessness? A debate rages.

Mindfulness is concentrating on the present. Mindlessness is mind less thought process. But I talk about neither. I talk about no thought what so ever.

What happens in the state of nothingness!!!

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/shunya-nothingness/

Liberation:

the state of perfect happiness and peace in Buddhism where there is release from all forms of suffering

Moksha, Nirvana, Enlightenment, Salvation, Mukti, emancipation, liberation, release, freedom from saṃsāra

Different names, different views....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/liberation/

Purpose of Life

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/purpose-of-life/

Karma

These are some of the situations we face almost on a daily basis.....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/karma/

Human Suffering – Part 2

Arrogance and Ego.

These are two very wonderful emotions which I come across incessantly. These emotions I call road blocks which render us helpless on our quest for happiness. The biggest causes for our suffering. I see people suffering. But these two emotions don’t even let them acknowledge that there is a problem. You cannot work on a problem unless you know there is one in the first place. These two cause our minds to think that all is well and the subject is living in the world of ignorance.

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/human-suffering-part-2/

Life is a series of experiences. Good and bad. Good don’t last long but the bad lingers on and on. Something like a bad after taste. What if there exists a mouth freshener. Does anything like this exists. Is their any way we can get rid of the bad patches in our lives. If something like this exists then why don’t we know about it. Buddha said that there is a way....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/suffering/

Buddhism teaches the concept of rebirth. So we die and are reborn and this process continues.

This whole concept of life and death I feel is misunderstood. The fact of ‘LIFE’ has nothing to do with ‘DEATH’. Though ‘DEATH’ has a relation to ‘LIFE’..........

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/life-and-death/

What did you bring with you

We all are same. No difference at all. The process of child birth is the same across the world. The child at birth knows no religion, race, color, social standing….. The mother embracing the child is the same across the world. Tending and feeding the child is the same. Is there any difference between a parent’s love for their child in different parts of the world. At the end, the death is the same. Is there any difference between the pain we endure on loss of our loved ones. Is the language of pain different in different parts of the world.

What is different is what happens between birth and death.....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/what-did-you-bring-with-you/

I was traveling in my car with my friend the other day. I always carry lots of big packets of cookies in my car. These cookies are for the homeless people and kids I see on the road. So instead of giving them money, I offer them something to eat. What happened that day, kept me thinking how we humans can have different perspectives to the same situation. It was a small incident which nobody would even remember but it stuck with me as I study human behavior very closely.

As we approached a red signal, I could see a homeless kid approaching my car....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/perspective/