ameet pai

self-taught is not about learning without a teacher, it is something far more demanding

When a cat eating, sunset hues, and bench-watching revealed two hidden verbs that call us to simply see more clearly

Medical professionals often ask, "Rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10." I have never come across a similar situation when someone is seeking to measure their joy. When we experience a deviation from normal towards joy, we are happy… we enjoy the good feeling. Most often we are not asking ourselves, "Why has this stimulus (the source of joy) come to me?" We do not question the existence of this joy. We do not actively measure its relative magnitude. We only experience it, sav

set of poems / poetry on the indian city of banaras / varanasi / kashi

a reflection on time and timelessness

we approach the world with a lens to understand it. We take in information through our senses, process to make sense of it - either fit it to an existing mental model or categorize it relative to one. This is natural, needed for survival. However there are a few things that happen before this - they happen so fast that we barely notice them. we perceive - aided by but not limited to receiving inputs through the senses; we feel - the stimulation that the input from the senses

how do we take a leap in our perception and ability - by pushing our limits or falling to our center?

We always begin with nothingness. But where does one go from nothingness... its a choice... Conquering rejects 'what is' Surrendering begins with accepting everything The first step on the journey of Conquering is to reject the status quo. There is a desire for something greater, better, more than ‘what is’. Surrendering begins by acknowledging 'what is' - the good & bad, dark & light - seeing them as different sides of the same coin, seeing everything for what it is Conqueri

Freedom is being open to the infinite possibilities that exist in every moment. It is difficult for our energy guzzling minds to process multiple possibilities for every decision and so we fall back to bias and logic. While this serves the efficiency purpose, it is constantly narrowing and spiraling our minds down the median of our acquired ideas. creation needs freedom, being unbounded question every premise. bias, assumption consciously keep logic aside - be irrational be o

Equanimity is Balance. Chitta Vritti Nirodh is Balance. ( literal: Quieting of the mind. Chitta : Consciousness, Vritti : Fluctuations, Nirodh : Quieting of) Human action is the search to find a moment of balance between the various dualities of life. This point of harmony is a function of our perceived reality and our inherent nature - different for every individual. Every entity seeks to find its own balance basis its inherent nature. On the canvas the brush tries to creat

Every moment we are dealing with duality. Like opposite forces continuously acting on us, they create a tension. This tension moves us into action, to search for harmony, a moment of balance. We find a balance between the disheveled and orderly in our surroundings, we work towards acquiring wealth enough to avoid our personal definition of depravity, try to be social enough to avoid being labeled an outcast, and we seek meaning in life so as to not feel lost in this world. Th