Before You Become Anything, You Are
What if happiness, peace and fulfilment are not destinations you have to reach, but qualities of Being that become obvious when the effort to become someone becomes quiet?
From Vimal
Notes from the journey of discovering what is already here.
A personal space for reflections on Being, awareness, self-inquiry, life, devotion and the ordinary moments in between.
Featured reflection
Before the story of who we are, there is the simple fact that we are.
This is a place for questions, observations and insights that emerge through meditation, self-inquiry and ordinary living.
Not a collection of answers to carry. A collection of invitations to look.
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Thoughts worth pausing with.
Who Are You When You Stop Believing Everything You Think?
Turn attention from the story of “me” toward the one who is aware of thought, emotion and experience.
Meditation Is Not About Stopping the Mind
What if meditation is not a battle with thought, but a recognition of what is aware of thought?
The Awareness That Is Already Here
You are not trying to become aware. You are already aware. The question is whether you have noticed what that means.
What Is the Deepest Longing of Every Human Being?
Beneath every desire, there may be another desire: the longing to know the Self.
Nirvana Shatkam: Six Verses That Point Beyond Everything You Think You Are
A contemporary reflection on body, mind, identity, experience and the simple fact of awareness.
Can You Love Someone Without Losing Yourself?
Explore how awareness can change the way we meet love, expectations, conflict and boundaries.
What If Spirituality Is Not About Becoming Spiritual?
What happens when spirituality stops being another identity and becomes an invitation to see what is true?
Seeing What Is Already Here
Photography can become a practice of seeing—slowing the eye, making the ordinary visible and allowing creativity to emerge.
When Life Becomes the Practice
Awareness does not end when meditation ends. Life itself can become the field of practice.
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Different subjects. One movement: attention turning toward what matters.
A personal note
I am not here to give you another philosophy to carry.
I am interested in the simple possibility of looking together — and discovering what becomes obvious when we stop adding so much.