Conceive With Awareness

                         Sincerity, our first step on the path to anything. When we want to learn a new craft or a new skill, when we want to master a sport or study a topic in depth, our very first ammunition for the challenge is likely to be our sincerity; when we lack the knowledge, the experience or even the favourable eye of a teacher or guide, our companion and trust worthy friend, will be sincerity, if we can bring her along and convince her to walk the path with us. When we approach a task with sincerity then we assure our stakeholder that he can be rest assured of our best attempt at getting the work done as perfectly as our human capability would allow us; that we are willing to learn along the way if need be and the outcome need not be at the mercy of our current knowledge alone. That our claim to getting the work done well is our honest effort that will persist in the face of early failure and challen...

What is consciousness? Awareness? Intention? Focus? The highest instrument that an ordinary human being is aware of and can exercise some control on, is the mind. By mind we know it as the part in us that thinks, ponders, broods, reminisces, tries to recollect, plans through a series of thoughts and decides to act; also one who exercises the will to act and prods a part of the body to act; it is also the one that becomes sad when the body experiences pain or illness; it is the one that is tormented when we face deceit or hurt in a relationship and it is also the one that gathers the being after a heartbreak and urges him to move on. But sometimes no word of the mind lands on the emotional being, the vital has taken over by running the painful memories in repeat mode and yet there is someone who suffers silently, allowing the vital energies to dry out- it is not the mind that tries to interrupt a few times to take charge, but is unable to get through. Again, when we freeze in fear and...