Tag: Sri Satchidananda
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Insatiable
Welcome to Sutra a Day. Last night, I went climbing with my friend S. Climbing with her is always an adventure, and not because it’s climbing. Beyond navigating color-coded routes on brownish gray walls in a gym filled with adolescents, hanging by ones fingertips, inhaling chalk dust, and the elation of solving a problem by…
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Oboe Not Duck
Welcome to Sutra a Day. I hear a bird squawking outside reminding me of band when I was a kid, specifically of the oboe. The oboe can be a beautiful instrument, but in the hands of many junior high school band members it can also sound a bit like a duck in pain. Junior high…
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The Sixth Sense
Welcome to Sutra a Day Today we dive right in. I’ve got 15 minutes to think about this sutra. There are five? 6. Prmana viparyaya vikalpa nidra smrtaya. “They are right knowledge, misconception, verbal delusion, sleep and memory. You remember yesterday? We talked more about the concept of these mental modifications being either painful or…
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The Child Mind
Welcome to Sutra a Day. As I settle in to write this Monday, I recognize that I’m already thinking negative thoughts about some people, about work, about life. That there are a million things I want to do that I don’t know how to fit into my day, the day of the things I have…
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