We live a life that is not free of joy and suffering. That means we are still struggling to get out of the life cycle that necessarily means we are caught in a vicious circle of never-ending misery. Read more

There are books that you would love to read; and, if possible, love to follow the path shown in them. One such book is Joyful Path of Good Fortune, written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a Tibetan monk and renowned meditation master, living in the UK. It promises to lead you to the path of enlightenment. Read more

If I say happiness is the absence of suffering, I may not be far off the mark. But this statement needs a bit of clarification. ‘Absence’ here does not mean that suffering does not exist. It is very much there but you have either learnt to live with it or have reached a state of mind that joy and suffering make no difference to you at all. Read more

For most of us ordinary mortals, the very idea of death can be scary. Until one realises that death is as good as birth because it too is a growth process, one will carry the burden of death scare throughout one’s life. One whose life-lease is about to come to an end, the scare of death takes his/her apprehensions to mountainous proportion. Read more

We ordinary mortals are scarred of death and don’t want to die even if we are reduced to a vegetable and can’t do anything good in life. The reason is easy to seek: The scare of the unknown and our belief in life hereafter and the consequences of the sins we have committed during our sojourn on this planet. Read more

If you must live happily, you must die happily too. When we have so many social networks for the living, it is imperative that the dying needs such networks all the more. Read more

Any write-up that has anything to do on living beings’ evolution evokes our keen interest, and at times sharp reactions from the so-called sticklers to societal norms. Read more

I think of death twice daily: Soon after my wake-up time in the morning and after taking stock of the day’s work, before going to bed at night. Read more