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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– God’s Flower Bed (on our ability to choose our thoughts or not…)

– ‘I Am with You Always’ (a text supported by quotes from the Bible…)

– Daily Calling (our spiritual calling is closer than we think…)

– On Desperation (on understanding the story of our desperation…)

– Holy Ground (on the holiness of the ground as being…)

– The Taste of Being (on remembering the taste of your being…)

– The Dream of a World (reflecting on the reality of the world…)

– Unaccompanied Awareness (on how awareness is not of the mind…)

– On God’s Existence (on the presence or absence of god in our life…)

– Humanness (our humanness borrows its reality in being only…)

– The Fantasy of a Self (there is no self here but in being only being…)

– Demons and Angels (on the prominence and qualities of thoughts…)

– Apocalypse (on the ‘three marks of existence’ of Buddhism…)

– Our Only Landscape (on how simply being is our only completion…)

– Overflowing Questions (questions on an unsurpassable knowledge…)

– A Safe Harbour (on how our true nature has no special status…)

– Anatomy of a Desire (an exploration of desire in matters of truth…)

– The Fragrance of Life (on how truth is first in our experience…)

– Where is True Home (on discovering being to be our true home…)

– The Intimacy of Experience (on not being shaped by experience…)

– An Abundance of Spirit (what there is to notice when slowing down…)

– ‘katholikos’ (on the meaning that the word ‘catholic’ hides…)

– The Impossible Deed (on how our mind cannot know who we are…)

– Spiritual Wine (a poetical inquiry into the word ‘spiritual’…)

– The Possibility We Are In (what is a life lived in and as being…)

– The Birth of Personhood (on what holds our person together…)

– On Courage (on how courage is found at the heart of ourself…)

– Meditation in a Nutshell (on what happens during meditation…)

– The Ultimate (reflecting on the nature of our most profound being…)

– Vedantic Logic (on how our being stays untouched by experience…)

– Remembrance (on the importance of remembering our true nature…)

– The Religious Life (reflecting on how spirituality is an exaggeration…)

– Creep (on what loving indifference looks like…)

– The Ending of Time (an inquiry into the concept of the right time…)

– Undivided Being (reflecting on what an individual truly is…)

– The Formula of Life (how experience is a reflection of ignorance…)

– The Face of the Infinite (on the difficulty of knowing who we are…)

– A Chronicle of Thought (freeing ourself from thought’s pernicious ways…)

– The End of Self-Improvement (on the impossibility of self-improvement…)

– The Story of It All (a journey from confusion to clarity of being…)

– Entangled Life (on how to disentangle ourself from experience…)

– The Distant Country (reflecting on the parable of the prodigal son…)

– A Treasure of Understanding (on the nature of understanding…)

– A False Impression (about the one who is knowing or is aware…)

– Twisted Rainbow (on the nature and reality of unhappiness…)

– The Incandescence of Being (on seeing that you already have it all…)

– The Frailty of Naming (reflecting on what can be named and what cannot…)

– Divine Presence (how presence is met both outwardly and inwardly…)

– The Scrutiny of Now (how the now is met as our innermost presence…)

– The Reluctant Messiah (how our resistance can be made surrender…)

– An Abundance of Being (knowing yourself is god knowing you…) 

– The Coveted Jewel (on love as a pathway towards understanding…)

– God Unveiled (an explanation of the nature and reality of God’s being…)

– Excessive Imagination (on our propensity to seek for an other…)

– The Voice in your Head (on the voice in ourself that mimics a self…)

– A Gorgeous Feeling (on the feeling of being myself…)

– Four Variations on Love (on some Meister Eckhart’s statements about love…)

– The Nature of Everything (how a thought is veiling reality…)

– Of Dimitry’s Prayer (reflecting on a prayer by Dimitry of Rostov…)

– A Trail of Glory (on following your being wherever it is…)

– A Holy Formula (on the sacred and holy natures of truth…)

– A Light to Yourself (on recognising yourself by yourself…)

– The Nectar and the Mouse (about the Sadhana of a little mouse…)

– Perfect Days (a text about a film…)

– The Adventure of Thought (how thought has structured our sense of self…)

– A Gathering of Friends (on finding the place of friendship…)

– Being’s Glorious Life (on how being is pervading everything…)

– The Unknowable (on the unknowable nature of our self…)

– Finding Relationship (enquiring into the nature of true relationship…)

– God’s Favourite Child (how being is our nurturing essence or progenitor…)

– An Explanation of Reality (on how the reality of everything is being…)

– A Speck of Light (from consciousness veiled to its being realised…)

– The Watcher (a contemplation on the nature of watching…)

– The Truth (an exploration into the nature and meaning of truth…)

– The River of Peace (how peace can be a teacher in life…)

– The Sieve of Life (how life ought to be lived through the sieve of being…)

– A Place of Leisure (the place of freedom and creativity in ourself…)

– A Simple World (recognising who we are is our most simple task…)

– The Impeded Buddhas (how everybody is a spiritual seeker…)

– Hidden Vastness (how presence is pervading our experience…)

– Know Thyself (on the crucial importance of knowing oneself…)

– Unto the Ages of Ages (on how close we are to knowing our true self…)

– Fear and Trembling (an inquiry into the notion of the fear of god…)

– The Will of God (understanding the true nature of God’s will…)

– The Russian Dolls (reflecting on the false layers of the self…)

– Wherever You Go (on finding out where being is located…)

– That Flickering Flame (on keeping the flame of being alight…)

– The Harvest of Understanding (on soaking the person with being…)

– God’s Blind Spot (what we are is unknowable…)

– Cleansing the Temple (truth is not found in the marketplace…)

– One Sublime Being (on the essence of the body-mind…)

– The Resting Place (where to find a resting place in ourself…)

– Christ (noun) (exploring the meanings behind the word ‘Christ’…)

– What We Have to Do (on the importance of knowing ourself…)

– Arise, O Krishna! (a praise to Krishna and the Gopis…)

– ‘Agnus Dei’ (reflecting on a choir song by Samuel Barber…)

– Let’s be very Clear (on the non-objective nature of God…)

– The Greatest Trick (reflecting on the question of the doer…)

– A Cathedral of Grace (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Falling of a Feather (on the gentleness of the recognition process…)

– On Passing Away (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Straight Story (a text about a film…)

– Isn’t Life a Simple Thing (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Turner’s Moon (reflecting on the evocative power of a painting…)

– Lectio Divina (the ‘Lectio Divina’ of a quote by Augustine of Hippo…)

– peace (noun) (exploring the meanings behind the word ‘peace’…)

– Tainted Self (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Ardent Disciple (on the many temples of being around us…)

– The Doorway to Emptiness (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Where Eternity Hides (the hiding place of our deepest being…)

– Anything at All (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Meditation Time (on meditating without the meditator…)

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

– The Beatitudes (My reading on the Jesus’ sayings from the Beatitudes…)

– The Little Bud (on how awareness is nothing but the self…)

– The Ultimate Absolution (an essay on the nature of forgiveness…)

– ‘Consummatum Est’ (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Glory of ‘I Am’ (a celebration of the purity of being…)

– A Ground for Life (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– At Heaven’s Gate (a playful interaction and dialogue at heaven’s gate…)

– Masters of Knowing (a praise to the evident nature of being…)

– A Plea Answered (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– A Tangible Now (on the tangible nature of the now…)

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

– The Brush of Ecstasy (a poem…)

– The Impossibility of Knowing (an essay on knowing and not knowing…)

– The Direct Path (there is a way out of the maze of thought…)

– At the Crossroads (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– The Puzzled Self (on looking for happiness in the wrong place…)

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

– The Gospel According to St. Matthew (a text about a film…)

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

– Taking Sides (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– A Tower of Watchfulness (a poem…)

– Imagine a Life (a text invoking a famous statement by J. Krishnamurti…)

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

– Awareness is All (an essay exploring the nature of experience…)

– The State of Things (a reflexion on the true nature of our experience…)

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

– The Hypochondria of Being (on the nature of spiritual experience…)

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

– The Craving (a poem…)

– The Angel of  Death (a text about a TV series…)

– The Most Important Thing (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– An Invitation from Silence (an exploration linking silence to pure being…)

– The Coronation (a poem…)

– A Loss and a Gain (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Evangelium (a meditation on the ‘Good News’ advocated by Christianity…)

– Unconditional Love (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)

– Humanity’s Healers (an essay exploring humanity’s place in our being…)

– The Graceful Way (a poem…)

– Go Within (on how all spiritual traditions only point to ‘being’…)

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

– The Fate of Me (a poem…)

– 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 listing the many 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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