Cup and Water

A group of working adults got together to visit their
University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon
turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just
smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups – some porcelain,
some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked [...]

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Commitment

Last Sunday morning, read this very inspiring story of Hajabba who made a difference in the lives of 121(and counting) schoolchildren and the same very same edition of Indian Express had Guruji talking about commitment and about having a broad vision and larger commitment in life. The article by Guruji is something that I need [...]

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The Demise of Project Management

….on this blog at least. I started this off with the intention of writing my experiences in Project and Program Management. And as the readers of the blogs would have noticed, most of my postings are related to Spirituality and Meditation. I deliberately stopped posting anything relating to PM since I did not want any [...]

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One Wild and Precious Life

I picked up "Coming to Our Senses" by Jon Kabat-Zinn based on a recommendation I had read somewhere. It is a rather large book – voluminous. I haven’t read it completely yet to pass a judgement. Browsing through the book, I came across this wonderful poem by Mary Oliver that I reproduce here:
Who made the [...]

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Pot calling …..

Enroute to the office today, on HAL road (connecting Old Madras Road to Airport Road) an RTO van stopped the Auto that I was travelling in to do a pollution check! Great, except that the folks doing the check did not have any equipment with them to measure the pollution. A guy comes to the [...]

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New Toy

The last time I got carried away and bought a digital toy was in 2001 when I purchased a Palm. Today it lies in one corner of my house unused. I hope this one doesn’t go the same way. I am very excited by this…have loaded hundreds of songs….amazing sound quality and great piece of [...]

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Handling Travel

Came across an interesting article in Yoga Journal:
Techniques
to prevent anxiety and restlessness make any trip more relaxing.
Establishing a rhythm is easy at home, where you control your schedule
and can settle into a comfortable routine. But when you’re traveling,
that rhythm is disrupted, which can throw you off-kilter. To set
yourself at ease on any journey, learn how [...]

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Simple People, Uncomplicated thoughts, total faith

….interesting read. Want to walk this path sometime in my life.

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