by Shazar | Jul 4, 2020 | consciousness, Meditation
Seeking nothingness – nobody-ness I sit.. I feel, I seek to allow myself to be. To be with the shedding of the trappings of my identities.. to understand who I am not. and through the who I am not to begin to sense who i am. As I meditate in the morning...
by Shazar | Aug 16, 2017 | consciousness, India, Meditation, music
The tears come – spring into my eyes .. and will not stop. I know if I let go the flood gates will open – so I breathe into it – the opening is there unbidden but rushing in. Gifted to me with no volition of my own. Simply being here – being...
by Shazar | May 27, 2015 | consciousness, Meditation
Life is so good to me. If I am quiet just for a little while, if I practice what James Altucher calls the Daily Practice, even partially, if I allow myself to receive the messages that are available to me – then I can move on. There are times when I guess we...
by Shazar | Oct 8, 2014 | consciousness, Meditation
Living in a land where few speak my mother tongue, most of the language around me is simply sound – there are many children here and none of them are silent – so it is often a cacaphony of big sound. But the sound is sound … laughter, play – as...
by Shazar | Sep 1, 2012 | consciousness, India, Meditation
Do you know that space? That feeling behind the solar plexus, that gap? The one we often fill with our addictions? I am feeling it tonight.. I try to put a label on it.. ‘homesick, alone,’ looking for something outside of myself to fill it. Examine it,...
by Shazar | Jul 26, 2010 | consciousness, Meditation, music, Poetry
An old friend shared this beautiful story with me recently and I could not resist sharing it on further with his permission. Enjoy… Nisheetha and i just drove a 200 mile round-trip to hear an unknown and illiterate Bengali sing for twenty minutes. ...
