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Tag Archives: peace

Vipassana – my experience. Part 1

24 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Social Causes, Spirituality

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dhammagiri, discipline, equanimity, igatpuri, meditation, noble silence, peace, sheel, Shri Goenka, sins, temptations, vibrations, vipassana

I sinned on Day 3.

No – I didn’t eat meat, didn’t break the noble silence, didn’t intoxicate myself, didn’t have sex with a man (or woman), didn’t cheat by hiding my IPhone. I even denied myself the temptation of reading a book. Oh that last one was truly a sacrifice!

Yet I broke my sheel or code of conduct … b’cos I wrote. At the cost of foregoing my slot in Heaven …  I wrote. How else would you be reading this?

Fernando vicente 7

Infact, IMHO Continue reading →

Sparrows & squirrels: peaceful coexistence

11 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in My Pets, Spirituality

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empty nest syndrome, peace, pets, soothing, sparrows, spirituality, squirrel, stress buster

sparrows-squirrel

This is the live streaming video I see everyday out of my balcony. Stress buster, soul soother, peace of mind bought at the price of a few Kang seeds.

The first guest to arrive is invariably Mr. Squirrel. Continue reading →

Chlorinated Nirvana:

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Random Musings, Spirituality

≈ 22 Comments

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hobby, learn, Nirvana, peace, pool, swim, swimming, swimsuit, tension

We are all natural born swimmers. Swishing through Amniotic fluid, swinging on the umbilical cord but tethered safely to the placenta. womb

So why is it that we still need to learn swimming? Maybe not; all we need to learn is to un-learn the fear of drowning.

Swimming, for me, meant a whole lot of Eureka moments Continue reading →

Power of bloom vs gloom

02 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Spirituality

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mind, peace, positive attitude

He narrated a hilarious joke to an assembly. They broke into laughter, reveling in the novelty of it.

He repeated the joke after 5 minutes. They smiled indulgently.

He repeated the joke after 10 minutes. Their lips curved up, their eyebrows slashed down.

He repeated the joke after 15 minutes. There was impatient shuffle.

He repeated the joke after 20 minutes. There was stony silence.

He repeated the joke after 25 minutes. Frank irritation sliced through the air.

He sensed the unrest and smiled, “A happy incident has the power to bring a smile. It loses that power on repetition.

Then why? Why? Why does a slight/an insult/a misfortune/a reversal not lose its power to make you gloomy in spite of repeatedly dwelling on it?”

The art of driving in Mumbai- Part I

24 Sunday Nov 2013

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in My cars- my chariots, Random Musings, Social Causes, Spirituality

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Accident, adrenaline spurts, car, driving, Matiz, Mumbai, Nirvana, owner, patience, peace, road rage

OK, I admit it is a nightmare. It escalates blood pressure, boils blood, creates stomach ulcers, gives visions of bloody murder.

I am now trying to achieve Nirvana while driving. Here are my pointers.

1. Start early. Nothing like those extra 15 minutes to soothe fragile nerves.

2. Dont make it a competition between that I-have-a-deathwish taxidriver and the Why-the-hell-do-girls-drive testosterone bravados. In my early nervous stints at the wheel (and even now in unexplainable spurts of adrenaline), I do press on the accelerator.

If you cannot control the competitive urge, make it a different type of competition. I pat myself on the back and say “I won’’”, if I do not give in to that adrenaline surge, if I ease on the accelerator and allow the idiot to overtake.

Those 5 seconds honestly make no difference. Invariably, we end up side to side(or bumper-to-bumper) at the next red signal!

3. Listen to fabulous music. It is the magic elixir to shorten and sweeten any journey.

4. Anticipate the sadistic tendencies of truck and taxi drivers. They almost always turn left after giving a right indicator, take a U-turn if the parking lights are blinking and veer into your lane with no intention of acknowledging ur existence.

5. Remember, you always appreciate patience in the driver behind you; but never in the driver ahead of you.

6. Indicators are genuinely meant to replace horns (in daytime). So dont use them as synonyms.

7. Never admire another bigger, better, newer model. Just like you wont admire a younger, slimmer, prettier girl in the presence of ur current one.

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