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This morning I sat to practice — half an hour of Vipassanā , followed by a silent reflection on Advaita . The body was still enough, but the mind was a restless monkey, leaping between unfinished tasks, imagined futures, and subtle self-congratulations for “being spiritual.” At first, I fought the distractions — tightening attention as though I could wrestle the mind into silence. But the more I fought, the louder the inner noise became. Only when I softened — simply noticed the movement — did something shift. The distraction itself became the meditation. I saw that awareness was never disturbed; it was only the contents within awareness that changed shape. Advaita reminds me: the witness is untouched. The waves of thought rise and fall, but the ocean remains ocean. Vipassanā sharpens this seeing — sensation by sensation, breath by breath — showing that each moment, when seen clearly, dissolves into impermanence. Together they teach me that stillness isn’t the absence of thought,...

This morning I sat quietly, asking my body, “Why do I still feel unrest, though I know so much?” It replied, not in words, but as a slow sinking into stillness: “Because you do not trust.” Knowledge, I realized, is the first remedy for ignorance — it lights the path. But once the light is on and I still hesitate to walk, something subtler is missing. That something is trust — the faith that life moves toward balance when I stop forcing it. I asked again, “Is it distraction? Is it weakness of will?” The body answered softly, “It’s a lack of trust, not a lack of knowing.” Just as sleep comes not by command but by surrender, healing and peace arise not from control but from confidence — the trust that the body knows, the breath knows, the Being knows. Because knowledge without surrender is a kind of tension. The body does not like it. The body does its quiet housekeeping — repairing, digesting, balancing — without our permission or praise. Yet the mind, always flickering like a ca...

The fields of modern physics, particularly  quantum mechanics  and  relativity , have been noted by many to contain surprising conceptual parallels with ancient  Hindu  and  Buddhist  philosophies. These parallels often emerge when discussing the fundamental nature of reality, existence, and the relationship between the observer and the observed. ​Quantum Mechanics and Eastern Non-Duality ​Quantum mechanics, the branch of physics dealing with the very small, has introduced concepts that challenge the classical, objective view of reality, resonating strongly with non-dualistic Eastern thought. ​ The Observer Effect and Consciousness (Hinduism, Buddhism): ​ Physics:  The act of observing or measuring a quantum system fundamentally influences its state (e.g., forcing a wave function to "collapse" into a definite particle state). The  Observer Effect  suggests that a purely objective, independent reality may not exist at the quantum level. I...

Rupert Spira’s Teaching We Are Awareness Spira’s entire teaching rests on one direct recognition: “Consciousness is not something we have; it is what we are.” All thoughts, feelings, and sensations appear in awareness, are known by awareness, and dissolve into awareness. We mistake ourselves for the body–mind, but what we truly are is the knowing presence in which the body–mind appears. He often uses the analogy of the movie screen: all scenes come and go, but the screen (awareness) remains untouched. Realisation is not an attainment, but a recognition of what is already the case. The Nature of Experience Every experience is made only of consciousness. “Whatever it is that knows our thoughts, sensations, and perceptions is not itself a thought, sensation, or perception.” When we look deeply, we never find a world apart from knowing. This is the non-dual insight: there are not two things — a perceiver and the perceived — but one reality appearing as both. In Vedantic terms...

  The Wisdom of the Body Some days, I feel that my body is far wiser than I will ever be. It speaks so quietly that I often miss it—under the noise of thought, the flicker of screens, the urgency of plans. Yet, when I pause, when I let the noise settle even for a moment, it begins to hum. A subtle pulse, a tension here, a warmth there—the body saying, I am here. I have been here all along. I realize how little the mind truly cares for this soft creature it inhabits. It pushes it, feeds it things it doesn’t need, keeps it awake when it longs for rest, and intoxicates it when it hungers for presence. The mind chases pleasure, control, and stories—it drinks to forget its restlessness, scrolls to silence its boredom, thinks endlessly to avoid the simple ache of being. And yet the body keeps whispering, “I only want to breathe.” When I notice how often my mind overrides my body, I feel a quiet sorrow. I drink coffee when my stomach is already tight. I stay awake long after my eyes burn....

  Takeaways from Focusing by Eugene Gendlin Felt Sense The term was popularized by Eugene Gendlin (in Focusing, 1978). It refers to a vague, bodily awareness of a situation or meaning — before it is verbalized or clearly conceptualized. It’s nonverbal knowing, a sense that something is there, meaningful, but not yet defined. “A felt sense is not an emotion, but the unclear, preconceptual body sense of a whole situation.” — Eugene Gendlin The tight heaviness in the chest when something feels off, even before you know why. A warm openness in the belly when something feels right or true. A bodily intuition, a “rightness” or “wrongness” of direction, without mental reasoning. In meditation, this is the intuitive texture of awareness felt through the body, not yet named or interpreted. Perceived Sense: Refers to sensory or cognitive perception — seeing, hearing, touching, or thinking about an experience as an object. It is what the mind recognizes through the sense organs and labels. It...

Morning Grounding Prompts (Use one each morning before you start the day or check your phone.) “What is this moment before thought arises?” “Can I begin the day not by doing, but by being?” “If awareness is already awake, what needs to be fixed?” “Let me feel the breath — not to control it, but to remember that life breathes me.” “How can I meet today with curiosity instead of expectation?” Don’t strive to be mindful; simply notice how striving feels. So when you ask, “What is this moment before thought arises?”, you are literally shifting neural processing from conceptual (DMN) to sensory-motor and attentional networks — returning to bare awareness before narrative forms. Midday Refresh Prompts (Ideal for between tasks, during lunch, or walking to your car.) “Am I here, or in the story of here?” “How does the body feel before I label it as tense or relaxed?” (Is the felt sense different from the perceived sense? There is a difference between direct embodiment and conceptualized e...