Learn to hold life lightly

We cling tightly to life, its processes and outcomes. Our desire to control everything in life comes from our insecurity and possessiveness. Falsely believing that if we don't control everything, life will go haywire, we make it rather inflexible. Because of this assumption, we tend to prevent life from moving in its natural course. This results in the expectation of certain outcomes. When it doesn't happen, we get frustrated.

Maintain equanimity in success and failure

The principle of impermanence teaches us many wisdoms, and one of them is developing our mind to maintain equanimity in all conditions of life, both success and failure. In life, we might have to go through many failures yet we may also get chances to celebrate successes. Somehow, every human being likes success, but failure feels like thorns. However, is it possible to live a life without failure at all? Everyone, at different stage in own life, faces both failures and successes. How you receive...

Diwali festivities are round the corner. One of the key elements of celebrating Diwali is playing cards! People in India like to play cards on the Diwali night with the hope that Goddess Lakshmi will bestow its blessings upon them and that luck...

During the last lockdown, which was first of its kind experience for almost everyone of us, we have learnt survival skills, with bare minimum support. One of the issue that everyone of us might have felt was haircut. Hairdressers were closed...

Dadabhai Naoroji was approached by Gandhi from Durban seeking his guidance and support for a movement in South Africa. In his letter to Dadabhai, in July 1894, Gandhi wrote to him regarding the first Parliament of Natal under Responsible Government...

Are we committed to ourselves? Can we do a task diligently, with full accountability? Or we shy away from such commitment and regularity? When we decide to go to the gym regularly, do we maintain a calendar? When we start a diet plan, can we...



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