In the quiet hours of a sleepless night, life can be stripped bare of its illusions. Sometimes I feel like we are just chess pieces - shaped differently, valued differently, moving with varying freedoms, and yet, all bound by the same board and the same end: to return to the box. We imagine ourselves as … Continue reading Reflection: On The Chessboard of Fate
How I stay whole in a world that values productivity above all. How real resilience doesn’t come from pushing through. It comes from knowing you can stop at any time, and still trust that you’ll rise again.
For me, the past months have been quite…different. It seems like everything is in a standstill, and yet, lots have changed. No matter how still we are, the world around us will never stay the same. Which is the fact - and also the beauty, of life I guess.
Your deadliest enemies, the ones who have kept you tied to Samsara…
A lot of times we are the prisoners of our own thinking, emotions and mind. We’re influenced by our traumas, attached to outcomes, controlled by fears and egos. So how do we reach true freedom within ourselves?
What exactly is Ego? The ego is a collection of beliefs and past experiences that defines how a person interacts with others and with life.
Apparently it is quite common for us to see visions when we meditate, but is it a good thing or a bad thing? I had my first extremely vivid vision today, it looked like a dream but I knew I was seeing things with my eyes closed and I was completely awake.
As the moon's energy decreases and shadows form, it's a good time to turn our focus inward. When we start our inner development, we will discover things about ourselves which we are not comfortable with. And that is our shadow self, the "self" we hide away from others and maybe even from ourselves. The shadow aspects play a very influential part in our lives on our behaviours and ways of thinking.
2020 has been a crazy year, on top of the pandemic, riots and uncertainty, my grandpa passed away in the summer and I couldn’t even travel back home and be with him during his last days. I was angry, upset and anxious, to the extent that I started to have insomnia for days at a time. That's when I decided to give guided meditation a try. In October, I started to meditate for 10-15 minutes everyday, for a month.
Inner Orbit 