Dr Dosti Regmi Blog

I was contemplating the springboard that catapulted Buddha into his undertakings. It was the sight of sickness, aging, and death. The suffering inherent with life. And lastly the sight of the ascetic. The ascetic must have been a promise that one can overcome or deal with life's inherent suffering, obviously by detachment. So what he started with was the physical dimensions of the suffering. In his 49-day-long meditation, he must have mused upon a lot of things. One thought leads to another into monotonous addition and leads to no conclusion. So is life. As Albert Camus said, we try to search for meaning and life does not seem to care. Buddha takes reference to his own life and that is the most fail-safe and authentic reference. He remembered when he was a child and there was a farm plowing, he had sat under a tree and had been absorbed into a deep meditation and he was oblivious of the time and at that time he was just conscious of the coming in and going out of breath. He impleme...

Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), The Drama (1860), oil on canvas, 98 x 90 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich. Wikimedia Commons. हाम्रो दिमागमा, एउटा  न एउटा  फिल्म त चलिरहेकै हुन्छ। झुर, पट्यार लाग्दो , बैरागी  फिल्म त, बक्स अफिस को रेकर्ड नै तोडेर चल्छ।

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is meditate for an hour. Later in the day, sometimes I’ll meditate for another full hour in the afternoon. Meditation serves a significant purpose for me—it’s about getting in touch with reality. The mind constantly produces stories—stories about myself, about society, and about the world. These stories create a barrier between me and reality. Meditation is about learning to let go of these stories and truly see what is happening. It starts with the simplest things, like observing your breath as it comes in and out of your nostrils. Surprisingly, this is incredibly difficult to do. I remember when I first started meditating—I was doing my PhD at Oxford at the time. I thought of myself as an intelligent person, someone in control of their mind, someone who knows themselves well. But I realized I didn’t even have the basic ability to observe the simplest thing in the world—my breath—without my mind wandering off into some fantasy. This...

MINDFULNESS: Relation of mindfulness and memory: Full awareness of the present moment will make it easier to recall later what has happened. Moreover, if the receptive stance of mindfulness is established at the time of recalling, it will be easier to access the required information in the mind. The type of mindful presence to be cultivated in this way is similar to how we would try to be alert and attentive when something takes place that we later have to remember. When walking a path for the first time with the help of a guide, for example, knowing that the next time we will have to find  our way on our own, we will make an effort to notice and clearly remember which turns to take.   Mindfulness vs Consciousness: Whether we are mindful of a meditation object or caught up in a dream or fantasy, the flow of consciousness is always there. The same does not apply to mindfulness.  This mar...

“THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS SATIPATTHANA SUTTA Bhikkhus, this is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and grief, for the attainment of the true way, for the realization of nibbana—namely, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. 1. Mindfulness of the Body Mindfulness of the breath. Mindfulness of the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. Mindfulness with clear comprehension: of what is beneficial, of suitability, of the meditator’s domain, of non-delusion. Reflection on the thirty-two parts of the body. Analysis of the four elements. 2. Mindfulness of Feelings Pleasant, painful, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings, worldly and spiritual. Awareness of their manifestation, arising, and disappearance. 3. Mindfulness of Mind Understanding the mind as: greedy or not greedy, hateful or not hateful, deluded or not deluded, contracted or distracted, not developed or developed...

The tree, whose leaves have left him with the onset of winter, is now shrouded by mist. Yet the blueheaded bird, entertains him with her songs.

Derrida's deconstruction, Buddha's dependent co-arising, and Tao's yin-yang: Cause, condition, and context. -Dosti Regmi Language has flaws. We have seen words break things in our lives when they carried meanings we did not intend to express. When we have a dispute, the grudges we hold will be over certain words or phrases that were used. Noble Silence is Buddha's advice for word-weariness. They say, "Speak only when your words can improve on your silence." We are often misunderstood, and we cannot mend the wounds inflicted by words. Words are fatal. They inflict violence upon the truth we hold. Words and bullets cannot be reversed, they say. But words often fail to hit our targets. The essence is missed in the translation of meanings to words in the sender's part and words to meanings in the receiver's side. Buddha says there is no essence, irrespective of the cause and conditions. Another flaw that logocentrism carries is the binary view of the worl...

बिदाको दिन, दिउसो को समय। एउटा आलस्य छाएको छ। यो आलस्य रहस्यमय छ। गतिशील समयले टक्क उभिएको अभिनय जो गरेको छ।

Will words ever truly represent reality? Who will truly understand what you say or want to say? Sometimes, you may not even find someone to listen to you, just like the cabman Iona in Anton Chekhov´s short story "Grief." The cabman's son recently died. The cabman desperately and unsuccessfully tries to talk with the people he meets and tell them of how shattered he is. No one bothers to listen to him, and he ends up talking to his horse, which does not interrupt him and chews his grass and breathes on him.   Even if you get lucky enough to express it. Will the word represent your true thoughts? Suppose you feel uneasy with someone in a relationship and are trying to observe and understand the relationship. A friend comes and tells you, "How can you even survive in this relationship? It's a toxic relationship." The introduction of the word "toxic" makes you align your evidence to match it and forget the evidence that does not align. So, is the word...