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Holy Cowed
It’s the cows and the bulls…! And this is the season in India when they are honored and given their due. After all without them many a field would go unplowed, many bricks, sand, and bags of rice would...
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The Flower Thief
I’m guessing… you had different plans for those marigolds hanging in that plastic bag on your door. Maybe they were going to be placed on the family shrine, around a photo of your guru or on a picture...
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Footsteps in Silence
He traveled light on the road, with few earthly possessions - bags, small pot, walking stick, the clothes on his body - sleeping on the hard ground, eating what is given (or not), weathered by the...
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Cows Come HOME
Come… Walk with me from the grazing grounds Where I take the cows each day to eat their fill. It is almost dusk and the cows know it is time to come home. Like gentle spirits they follow me on …...
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Skyward in Silence
It stands in the back streets, tucked away from the noisy sea of moving bodies and frenzied traffic on the main roads. An ancient pipal tree – a towering pageantry of nature – living and growing in a...
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Divinity Breathes
It is a gentle ride into the countryside Carpeted with green rice plants Growing taller and taller each day. Along the windy road acre after acre Of stalks reach toward an endless sky. . Sun, water...
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In the Quiet Sun
In the quiet sun rice begins its journey. Tiny pearls emerge like precious jewels. In many places bullocks plow the land. And old women bend over in a permanent arch. Generation after generation the...
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Monkey Bis-cuit!
Monkeys and dogs in India are biscuit fiends. Give either one a biscuit and you have a friend for life. Well, not sure about monkeys, being rather fickle rapscallions, but they have learned humans...
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Simply BE-ing
Often it’s the most simple That breaks the heart O P E N An old man leaning forward Looking inward A hand peeking over a wall In the fading light A young boy washing by a river Smiling shyly at …...
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Forever Home
In the doorway of duality Fear and curiosity move Like a pendulum swinging from Darkness to light and back again. And the innocent Heart remembers… It has never left Home. Filed under: India, Oneness,...
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Like a Banyan Tree
A Small Story… I remember when my uncle Suresh planted that tree, I must have been about five years old. He took my fat child hand in his big wide one and and walked me to the fields where an …...
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Who? Who?
Those eyes – I felt them before I saw them. The soft touch of curious alertness Followed my steps along the dirt path Between two large and aging teak trees. . Looking up, I scanned the branches,...
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Fiery Love
It didn’t rain…….as the weather forecasts predicted. Instead, the sky graced us with fiery Love. Filed under: Blessings, India, Nature, Peace, Photographs, Silence, Spirituality-Inner Life, Sunset,...
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Who is ‘Da Monkey?
Dear Humans, And exactly who has the monkey mind? Filed under: India, Monkeys, Nature, Photographs, Self-knowledge, Spirituality-Inner Life, Tiruvannamalai Tagged: India, Monkey, Nature, Photograph,...
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Sea of Nothingness
A gentle sunrise Over the Arabian Sea Spreads an orange glow Across the horizon Lighting up the distant fog bank. Fishing boats come into view Beyond the coconut palms that line the shoreline. . The...
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Friends Far and Near
It’s an awkward rope day! Still my friend and I are having a good time! Happy NOW! Filed under: Cows, Devotion, India, Just for Fun, Nature, Oneness, Peace, Photographs, Self-knowledge, Silence,...
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Upside-Down World
In the flowering bush A little friend appears Looking… Observing…. To make sure There are no lurking predators Before taking an upside down dip Into the flower-head of ecstasy. Filed under: Birds,...
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Being LOVE
Each moment is an opportunity to open into spaciousness - where clouds of thoughts drift through and Being reveals itself as Love. Filed under: Advaita, India, Nature, Oneness, Peace, Photographs,...
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Falling into the Unknown
As if by stealth heat creeps upon the South Indian land And the trees respond in kind. Shedding leaves as the temperatures rise Until the hot of the day Rolls unceasing into the heat of the night. As...
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Winds of Change
There is beauty in the gathering clouds The portending of a storm. After a day of crystal blue skies and glaring heat A rush of cold air - Unheard of this time of year in South India. ‘ But …...
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