Dr Dosti Regmi Blog

  One: Involuntary recollection of the past when we had peaceful experiences is useful in our practice. It's appraisal can be read in the Marchel Proust book, In Search of the Lost Time.  When Buddha abandoned the ascetic forms of meditation, he recollected the time in his childhood when he was peaceful and meditated in the shade of a tree during the busy plowing ceremony and practiced the same technique, and attained enlightenment. We all had such experiences and knowledge in the past. Because as Zen says we are already Buddha nature and we all have forgotten it. Two: There is a drizzle, patter against leaves, and drumming on rooftops. I can smell the soil—that muddy and earthly smell. The rain releases a distinctive, earthy aroma called  petrichor.   The smell is attributed to a mixture of geosmin produced by bacteria, volatile plant oils, and ozone gas from the rain. It gives me an involuntary recollection of my childhood ( voluntary recollection would b...

 Which is the path?   Which of the above picture do you think the path is? The path described by Buddha or the path whose soil, your bare foot is treading? It is obvious. Not just the rhetorics and teachings of the 8-fold path and learning it by heart. The path is where the surroundings change after every mile and after every turn. The heaviest burden the spirituality is bearing is the scriptures itself. The teaching of the teaching of the teaching of the teaching and so on and so forth. Philosophizing is a problem rather than a solution in our life because the thinking hampers our pure perception, the extraordinary boon we all already have. The most used vocabulary in spiritual conversations is the most ambiguous, unrealistic , and faulty.. atman, brahman, moksha, nirvana, shunya..They are faulty maps of the reality that will sabotage and keeps you away from perceiving the reality that whispers at your ears, crawls on your skin,  lingers at your nose and fills your heart...