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Rajiv Vaishnav
Rajiv Vaishnav

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Nov 19

Listen. But don’t follow.

Listen, but don’t follow. Listen well, but follow your own insight, don’t follow others’ advice. Listen certainly, very meditatively, try to understand what they are wanting to convey to you. They may really be well-wishers, but if you start following blindly you will never attain to your own intelligence. You…

Listening

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Listen. But don’t follow.
Listen. But don’t follow.
Listening

6 min read


Oct 24

Happy frame of mind.

ALWAYS RELY ON JUST A HAPPY FRAME OF MIND. If you are unhappy, that simply means that you have learned tricks for being unhappy, and nothing else. Unhappiness depends on the frame of your mind. There are people who are unhappy in all kinds of situations. They have a certain…

Happy

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Happy frame of mind.
Happy frame of mind.
Happy

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Oct 14

Choiceless Awareness.

A man came to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, and asked him, ”What do you say about pre-determination, kismet, fate, and the freedom of man? Is man free to do whatever he wants to do? …

Awareness

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Choiceless Awareness.
Choiceless Awareness.
Awareness

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Sep 24

A miserable man.

There is a Sufi story…. A man was very miserable, and he was a mystic, just praying the whole day. Finally, he said to God, ” I have never asked you anything. I thought you yourself must understand, but it seems you are not looking at me. I have to…

Awareness

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A miserable man.
A miserable man.
Awareness

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Sep 24

Be Loving.

The Universe only pretends to be made of matter, secretly, it is made of LOVE. — Daniel pinchbeck. Do you think a man can love one person and hate another at the same time? No, it is impossible. A loving man, even when he is alone, is full of love…

Love

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Be Loving.
Be Loving.
Love

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Sep 10

The gate of heaven and the gate of hell.

A WARRIOR CAME TO THE ZEN MASTER HAKUIN AND ASKED “IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HEAVEN AND HELL?” HAKUIN SAID “WHO ARE YOU?” THE WARRIOR REPLIED “I AM CHIEF SAMURAI TO THE EMPEROR.” HAKUIN SAID “YOU, A SAMURAI? WITH A FACE LIKE THAT, YOU LOOK MORE LIKE A BEGGAR.” AT THIS THE WARRIOR…

Life

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The gate of heaven and the gate of hell.
The gate of heaven and the gate of hell.
Life

7 min read


Aug 14

Two boys at monasteries.

There is a Zen story: Two monasteries existed side by side and both the masters had small boys to run errands. Both the boys used to go to the market to fetch things for the masters — sometimes vegetables, sometimes other things. These monasteries were antagonistic towards each other, but…

Mind

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Two boys at monasteries.
Two boys at monasteries.
Mind

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Jul 30

Start getting dis-identified.

I was reading a beautiful anecdote: An elderly Irishman checked out of a hotel room and was half way to the bus depot when he realized he had left his umbrella behind. By the time he got back to the room, a newlywed couple had already checked in. …

Awareness

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Start getting dis-identified.
Start getting dis-identified.
Awareness

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Jul 16

Rabindranath and the old man.

Life must be something more. To be of any value, life must have something of eternity in it; it must be something beyond death. And you can know it, because it exists within you. Life exists within you — death is only an experience of others, outside observers. It is…

Life

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Rabindranath and the old man.
Rabindranath and the old man.
Life

5 min read


Jul 2

Death: An occurring art.

In the past two months, one of my very dear friends, a great soul whom I respected like my elder sister, passed away due to cancer. Three of my very close friends and one who is a fatherly figure to my wife, were detected with cancer and are fighting gracefully…

Life

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Death: An occurring art.
Death: An occurring art.
Life

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Rajiv Vaishnav

Rajiv Vaishnav

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