Everything  morphs. Everyone changes. Snakes shed their skin regularly, proud fighting cocks lose their tail feathers like clockwork. Hermit crabs, king crabs, regular crabs, fowls, reptiles and other creatures moult as they grow. Could death be a kind of moulting for the soul as it sheds old bodies and take on new ones? I wonder. [...]

What does a chrysalis or cocoon say to one who asks for the occupant of the empty shell? Probably, ” Alice has gone to parts unknown”.
Where do thoughts go when they become irrelevant? I used to have thoughts that bugged me from time to time, much like the seasons and cycles that make life easy [...]

Last night on the Discovery Channel,  I watched accounts of gel containing organic cells falling from the skies as well as rain with blood-like cells falling in Kerala, India. It might seem so outlandish to me decades ago but now, I am not so sure. We have been taught to think of spirit and matter [...]

I find that I spend a good deal of my time on thoughts that repeat. I have the same concerns, things that matter or bother me are the same things that did their mischief in my mind years before. Fears, desires, wishes, all of these have been with me in one form or another.
I should [...]

The ego is so intimately entwined with us that it is very difficult to grasp it as something which could be inimical to us. Yet, how often we have heard or read that “your greatest enemy is yourself” or put in another way, “I have seen the enemy and it is, us” or, “the devil [...]

Imadeddin Nasimi was a 15th Century Muslim mystic and teacher who propounded a transcendental theory of the oneness of God and man along with every atom in the universe. This was contrary to fundamental Islamic dualism of God and man, and the doctrine he preached though similar to Sufism, was  so heretical in the eyes [...]

There are those who are burdened with an eye for seeing what is wrong, and what needs to be changed or improved. They bring us great inventions and innovations and modern life would not have been possible without them. This is a wonderful world, I don’t dispute that but there are those who aren’t satisfied [...]

A couple of days ago, as I was taking a bath,  the thought arose in my mind, “if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him”. It has been decades since I first read that line and I did not understand then what it meant. Zen Masters are hardly the sort to give laborious [...]

Around 20 years ago, our class was engaged in some mass feeding, medical missions,  and tree-planting activities and a conversation with Manny E bugged me even up to this day. He said, “Ching, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for [...]

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I need to make sense of my life, to understand who I am and what I am here for.  I have begun to get a hint of  the parts of me that operates within the purview of  my perception. All is not as simple as it seems. I am seeing the ego and realize its [...]