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From Fixing to Trusting the Nature of Things
For many years, whenever someone I loved was struggling or caught in conflict, my first instinct was to help. I wanted to explain, guide, correct, and make things better. It came from love. I wanted those I cared about to be happy. I wanted them to avoid pain and suffering.
The Things We Carry
The day started out just fine, by our standards, that is. And then the "thing" happens!! 🔥 Which has us asking this all too familiar question. Have you ever had a perfectly good morning ruined by one small thing?
Not Knowing & Knowing
Not knowing, birth comes to be.
Knowing, the world appears.
Not knowing, I come to birth.
Knowing, I think, speak, and act.
Illusion Not the Opposite of Truth
The usual assumption: we tend to think truth and illusion are two separate things, like light and dark, or two rooms with a wall between them. Illusion is the "wrong" room, while truth is the "right" one. Escape one, arrive at the other.
Jealousy
Jealousy has been one of the deepest tendencies in this mind since young. There was always comparison — me and the other person, who is better, who is ahead. During high school, I remember constantly comparing results with my best friend. In some subjects she would come first, and I would come second, and in others it would be the opposite.
Oh Time, What Art Thou?
In our daily lives, we move within a conceptual world where time appears like a rigid container. We treat it as something to be spent, saved or lost. It structures our days and orders our lives—giving rise to an illusion of a solid past we carry and a solid future we anticipate or fear.
The Skippedy Girl and Her Quest
I was recommended to Clove and Clive, the former name for WISE, in 2012. At the time, I was going through anxiety that eventually led to a panic attack, and gradually, depression. What made it harder was that there was no apparent cause.
My Self and My World
Much, if not all, of what I believe to be what I am and what I think the world is, are all biases. I call it bias because it comes from my perspective or my point of view; me as the central point of reference from which everything else revolves around. I had to come first before everything else. Surely, no? Although this error may be obvious to some of you, for most of my life, I have always depended on the external to learn, to understand about myself, and to know how I view my world.
When the Intellectual Map Cannot Save You: Ken Wilber’s Journey Through an Insight Meditation Lens
Knowing the theory of how to end suffering is entirely different from actually experiencing it. For Ken Wilber, a world-renowned expert on human consciousness, it took a devastating personal tragedy to truly understand this difference.
Mother, Your Light Remains
She was trapped in despair. Deep, immovable depression had taken hold of her life. The cause was clear…
What Rules — Defilements or Wisdom?
In daily life, what truly rules our actions? Is it defilements — the ego, the habits of reaction — or is it wisdom?
Standing with Science Through Awareness and Wisdom
Each year, WHO’s World Health Day on 7th April reminds us that health is both a personal and collective responsibility. In 2026, the theme “Together for health. Stand with science.” highlights the importance of evidence, collaboration, and trust in protecting the wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet.
Delusion
Just a word
until it stands before me,
unannounced.
After all the watching,
the nodding, “Yes, I see”
it arrived,
and I laughed.
The Mind in Protest
If the natural state of the mind is peace, then this worldly mind cannot be its original condition. Seen this way, the mind we live with daily is already a deviation—a mind that has forgotten its source. Because it is not living in its natural state, the mind is always in protest.
Through the Lens of Another
It looks like me
But also not me
If I take it as me
Then it becomes me
Otherwise it is without ownership
Just as it is.
The River Without A Ruler
A thought is born —
not summoned by any throne,
but shaped in the hidden loom
of contact, echo, and memory’s dust.
The Taste of Refuge
There is a space—
not here, not there—
that receives whatever appears.
Far From Home
Desolate and exhausted
Lost and confused
Haven't I been here before?
A New Year Resolution for Life
Sometimes in life, the unexpected arrives quietly and painfully—being accused or blamed for something we did not truly do. Many of us know this experience. The pain that follows is hard to put into words. There is a sudden exposure, a sense of vulnerability, accompanied by shame or guilt—not because we are at fault, but because of how we fear others now see us. It is this fear of perception that stirs the urge to defend ourselves, to explain, or to strike back.
The Alchemy of “Seeing”
A flicker stirred behind the veil,
A ripple through the mind’s soft gale.
Not thunderclap nor stormy sky,
Just a hush where falsehood learned to lie.
No blade was drawn, no cry of blame,
Only silence whispering my name.
The shadow rose, a ghost, a guide,
A wrong I’d harbored deep inside.
Start your journey
A thousand mile journey starts with a baby step. Start yours today!