What Fell into my Lap

These are all the texts, essays, poems that I wrote in this blog, that fell into my lap, and that I have gathered here for the ones among you which may like to see them at one glance…

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– Hide-and-Seek (an exploration of the ‘hide-and-seek’ nature of self-inquiry…)

– A Place of Thankfulness (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Being Spiritual (an ode about not being spiritual…)

– The Controller (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Defining Enlightenment (an essay exploring the words for enlightenment…)

– The End of Seeking (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Worth of a Life (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Dark Night (a text on the poem by John of the Cross)

– A Fabulous Secret (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Riddle of Ignorance (a longer essay on the subject of ignorance…)

– A Disencumbered Now (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– A Song of Two Humans (a text about a film…)

– The Contemplative Mind (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– A Story of Lack (a story on how the sense of lack can be our teacher…)

– To Know Better (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Diary of a Country Priest (a text about a film…)

– The Substance of the World (a meditation on the beauty of the world…)

– The Program (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Names of God (a longer essay exploring the names given to god…)

– The Ways of Being (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Longing (a poem…)

– How Difficult is That? (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– A Mountain Walking (after an evening spent with Arthur Rubinstein…)

– A Ballet of Life (a reflection on seeing the ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’…)

– Hunger (a poem…)

– Into the Night (a very short story that narrates Peter’s entry to sacred India…)

– The Guard and the Prison Breaker (a longer essay on the question of freedom…)

– A Thing of Beauty (a meditation that embraces the world…)

– There is a Land (a poem…)

– A Room with a View (a text about a film…)

– The Virtues of Shopping (bringing presence to a simple experience…)

– The Shrug (a poem…)

– An Unnoticed Pathology (some thoughts on our propensity for seeking…)

– Our Sacred Destination (a short reverie on the destiny of our self…)

– The Ember (a poem…)

– The Wrath of the Lamb (a text about a film…)

– The Rightful King (a playful text about a container and its contents…)

– Churning the Ocean (a divagation on a famous Indian myth…)

– The Cradle (a poem…)

– The Flowers of St. Francis (a text about a film…)

– Being Alone (meditating on the sense of being alone…)

– The Surreptitious Thief (a longer essay on the nature of the ego…)

– The Word (a text about a film…)

– A Vehicle for God (a playful text on the Hindu concept of vehicle…)

– A Furnace of Love (a short story about Birgitta’s journey of love…)

– The Song of the Little Road (a text about a film…)

– The Pond (a poem…)

– The Sacrifice (a text about a film…)

– Love Remains (a humorous divagation where the self is confronted…)

– A Frame for Life (a longer essay on the subject of time and space…)

– The Seagull (a poem…)

– One Rock-like Reality (finding truth standing like a rock…)

– The Starry Night (a poem…)

– The Price of Immortality (a longer essay on the subject of death…)

– Ablaze with the City (a poem…)

– Overlooking You (a poem…)

– The Navel of the World (exploring where lies the true centre…)

– The Golden Thread (a poem…)

– A History of Veiling (a divagation on the subject of veiling…)

– The Mystery (a poem…)

– The Hermitage (a poetical stroll in search of our inner hermitage…)

– The Everlasting Arms (a longer essay on the subject of surrender…)

– The Waiting Room (a short text on the feeling of waiting in ourself…)

– The Never Ending Story (a short text on where wholeness is to be found…)

– The Neglected Self (a poem…)

– God Wants it All (a playful poem or fantasy…)

– The Chariot and the Charioteer (a longer essay on the reality of free will…)

– Stay Where You Are (a poem…)

– The Hiding Place (a poem…)

– Ishani’s Quest (a fairy story about the inner quest of a little girl…)

– Karma or the Monastic Life (a longer essay on Karma and right action…)

– Be Still and Know (a short text unraveling the verses of a song…)

– Benares my Love (a short text describing a secret meeting with Benares…)

– Tantra, the Song of Life (a longer essay on the nature of the Tantric path…)

– Naked Presence (a prayer or a poem…)

– Variations on the Separate Self (a short text, a divagation on separation…)

– The Cave (a short text about awareness seen as a cave…)

– The Departure (a short story relating a departure to India…)

– Bhakti, the Song of Love (a longer essay on the path of love and devotion…)

– A Silent Wind (a short text relating a day spent in Amma’s embrace…)

– Jñāna, the Song of the Self (a longer essay exploring the path of knowledge…)

– Ripples… (a poem…)

– The Distant Lord (a text about an insightful meeting in the Indian jungle…)

– The Churches of Rome (an essay on the meaning behind the churches of Rome…)

– I will Trust your Ways (a poem…)

– Our Mother’s Lap (a short text on the ways of the little child…)

– Unsubstantiality (a short text speaking of our unsubstantial nature…)

– I Want to Tell About (a poem…)

– Speaking of Shiva (a longer essay on the many facets of Shiva…)

– The Fruitless Search (a tale that speaks of a fruitless search…)

– The Path (a longer essay on the nature of the spiritual path…)

– The Old Mansion (two poems…)

– Promenade Parisienne (a short text about a poetical promenade in Paris…)

– Destroyer of Darkness (a longer essay on the function of the spiritual teacher…)

– The Intelligence of Chaos (a poem…)

– The Meeting (a short story that tells of an unexpected meeting…)

– The Truth Seeker (a short fairy story, a spiritual parable…)

– Blown Out (a longer essay to delve into the nature of awakening…)

– The Flower of Awareness (a poem…)

– Swift as a Bird (a short text on the untamed energy of our Self…)

– Bhārata Mā (a longer essay on the discovery of India’s spiritual heart…)

– The Secret (a short text that tells of a long-hidden Secret…)

– Let us all set out on a long journey (a poem…)

– Suffering Leads to Joy (a longer essay on the subject of suffering…)

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Picture by Alain Joly

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