Trying to deal with the resentment one faces from others

By JyotiPosted on September 30, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Psychology4 Comments

“This human being is a guest house. Every morning there is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honourably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful… Read More »

7th day of a Vipassana Course

By Guest BlogPosted on September 26, 2016September 27, 2016Cat All, Psychology, Self & Personality, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I have no words to start. Sitting from 2:30-3:30 in addithanna (no-movement) was a revelation today. Probably started on the dot or a minute or so late. I followed the instructions of Guruji to let my awareness travel from head to toe and back. Sometimes sweeping, sometimes slowly, part by part, as he said. I… Read More »

Defected substance

By Navni GujralPosted on September 13, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology1 Comment

One end of my paintbrush is dipped in permanent golden. The other changing colour at every touch, electric. One end burns in blinding light. The other scribbling furiously black stories multi-coloured. From multicolour oozes multicolour building strong-looking prison gates one trapping the other reeking fear of defected substance, grasping the few moments before my thirst… Read More »

The Guru-Disciple Relationship — Part 3

By DivyaPosted on September 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

The Role of a Guru A friend of mine who is a psychotherapist working in France asked me about my research regarding the Guru-disciple relationship. I gave him a short summary about what all I had done. Interestingly, though the idea of the Divine or That Absolute, whatever we choose to call It, was not… Read More »

Drunken dancing

By Navni GujralPosted on August 26, 2016October 8, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology, SocietyLeave a comment

In a home built for all each brick insists his red's the best. A test laughs uncontrollably teasing time in it's face: How many games will we play how many robes will I change before your toys trade their nervous fractions for the smell of togetherness, and find infinity dancing drunk on freedom, together singing… Read More »

A peek into myself

By JyotiPosted on August 23, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology11 Comments

As member of the IPI team I had agreed to submit blogs for the ipi-website at regular intervals, and now it was my turn. But… I am engaged in many unrelated things, and I was finding it difficult to put my mind and energy into coming up with something. Helplessly I observed the drama that… Read More »

The Guru-Disciple Relationship — Part 2

By DivyaPosted on August 19, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

The definition of a Guru A few years back I came across an article by Joel D. Mlecko titled, “The Guru in Hindu tradition.” The article traces the significance of the Guru-disciple relationship from the Vedic era up to the present times. Though the article gives us only a cursory glimpse of the topic it… Read More »

Living in the NOW

By AditiPosted on August 16, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

How often have you engaged in a self-talk or been in a situation where you are pulled between how you feel and what your mind tells you? My guess would be ‘a lot of times’. While growing up we are subjected to so much conditioning as to how a particular thing should “be” and how… Read More »

Storing and hoarding

By Navni GujralPosted on August 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology2 Comments

Some words glued to pages lying still in self-arrest pleaded silently to me: We must be brought to life at once to caress the clever storm growing stronger in it's weakness! "What stops you then?", I asked, as I shoved them in square pockets. Just this! Storing and hoarding and jumbling us around; our smell rots… Read More »

Beyond physicalism: a short note on why we need Sri Aurobindo’s vision

By MatthijsPosted on July 30, 2016Cat Psychology2 Comments

The physicalism that is widely assumed to be an essential element of the scientific method and way of thinking, even by those who consider themselves post-positivist, is actually neither a necessary condition, nor a finding of science. It is no more than an assumption that simplified physics and chemistry to a level where they could… Read More »