Touching people through your acting is part of your answer to it? You are touching very sensitive areas here. Truth be told, I have been an actor all my life but I don’t define myself as an actor. I don’t see acting as a passion for me. It’s something I do well if I set my [...]
Beyond that, at a larger level, what drives me is the need to know I have made a difference, that I stand out as an individual. Being an individual is very important for me. I am not a group kind of person, I am not a joiner of clubs, associations, and so on. I do [...]
Zen emphasizes awareness in the moment and interconnectedness if your objective is to reach inner peace – so it also depends on what you want and what is your objective, doesn’t it? Let me put it very simply, I just don’t think it works, no matter what the objective is. I could give you a huge [...]
Do I believe in karma? Not in the sense of somebody keeping a bank balance of my good and bad deeds. But I do believe in the cause and effect. In the sense that if I deliberately kill an ant walking across my table in a vicious manner, that insensitive act has affected my consciousness, [...]
So is there a place in your life for rituals or prayers or meditation? There isn’t a particular time I set aside. There are times I will go to a gurudwara and pay my respects. If I am in Rome I may walk into a church. If I am close to a Hindu temple, I will [...]
And sleeping on a hard bed, in a very bare room, surrounded by all kinds of strange people with shaven heads. You could be in an alien landscape. So anyway, Buddhism was a very important influence in my life and for a long time I did consider myself as such. But over the years, my larger mindset [...]
What is spirituality concretely in your life? It’s really been a search for understanding. On my father’s side I come from the Sikh tradition. The Bedis are descendants of Guru Nanak so there always was a strong Sikh influence in my life. My mother on the other hand became a Buddhist and spent the last fifteen years [...]
Is the higher self also the essence of who you are? The essence of who you are is who you choose to be, or how you act and relate to others. The higher self is part of you. The lower self and lower instincts are also part of you. Higher and lower self are part of [...]
Good morning friends. It’s a start of the week and a start of the day. I wish all will have a very happy days the whole week. As my one of daily routine, trying to know what is happening around me, so I’m reading a lot before I start my work. I came across one [...]
Should politicians become vice-chancellors? Retired politicians, those who have been defeated in the elections, need some place of respect. The vice-chancellorship has become a refuge. So make it a law that no politician can become a vice-chancellor. Universities should be teaching also the latest discoveries, the latest literature, the latest poetry, and th […]
Good morning friends. We all know that education is very important to every person. With a good education we will have a good life. Education should free us from our past. Education is a process of liberation, but it has not been actualized anywhere in the world. Liberation means liberating the mind from the past, from theologies [...]
Conversations are an important way of building up relationships. They could be silent or expressed vocally. Such relationships look beyond a given set of circumstances for a wider, deeper perspective, to understand the truth that lies beneath what is apparent on the surface. The longer we live and the more experienced we are, our ability to [...]
Good morning friends. In every relationship whatever kind of relationship is that, we should give the kindness and love to it to get the blossom we wanted. We should give the best. There is one good stuff I read and it should be shared to everyone. Human beings are born in relationship and the lives we [...]
If we close our eyes and just observe the thoughts that arise in our mind, it’s the inner awareness which allows us to notice these thought patterns. While it’s easy for us to initially get swept away by the thought patterns and not be able to observe, steadily we can begin to recognize the observer [...]
It is believed that 20% of what we see is objective data and the rest is a projection, biased by our thoughts and emotions. Neuroscientists highlight that the electrical impulses that reach our retina must also interact with the thinking and the emotional parts of the brain. Thus, we don’t see a mosaic of blue, [...]