tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post8047851559654796126..comments2023-05-18T19:40:36.343+05:30Comments on Seeing: babysittingP. Venugopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145838046697625836noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post-14523279319316187312015-03-29T18:09:08.963+05:302015-03-29T18:09:08.963+05:30sometimes we have to look at our children to relea...sometimes we have to look at our children to relearn the trick of being focussed. you have a son who had at 19 got a novel published by Penguin. to write such a book working round an overall plot stringing together events require focus and long term concentration. how did he do it? perhaps, if you look back, you too hd this quality when you were his age. take for instance when you were a student...it is only that you have misplaced it somewhere along the way. please spend some 60 minutes or so listening to this talk on 'the secret of concentration' by Swami Sarvapriyananda. ask Arjun too to liten to it. his skills have to be constantly sharpened.<br />this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGswR0tMqCMP. Venugopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145838046697625836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post-58676166642767620612015-03-28T22:06:09.136+05:302015-03-28T22:06:09.136+05:30Beautiful babies:)Beautiful babies:)Meera's Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595039881196315514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post-81842513499707456972015-03-28T22:05:30.324+05:302015-03-28T22:05:30.324+05:30I had two zen potatoes for a long time:). Untouche...I had two zen potatoes for a long time:). Untouched the potatoes grew branches and took very interesting shapes and stayed that way for a long time..focus is one thing I lack,(among many other things), mind wanders from one matter to the next always....Meera's Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595039881196315514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post-10358555040393220282015-03-19T06:37:15.601+05:302015-03-19T06:37:15.601+05:30and the journey is happiness; there is no destinat...and the journey is happiness; there is no destination. just being here, now. you can hear the humming note of the thampuru in the background, like a plain canvas on to which come on display like strokes of colours from a brush all seven notes of the music around...! (how complicated one can get trying the describe something that cannot be described...in simple words, it is wrong to romanticise babysitting. it is a tough job!)<br />P. Venugopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145838046697625836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026229989382717845.post-61123249873756385152015-03-14T15:21:38.816+05:302015-03-14T15:21:38.816+05:30Finding joy in simple things... yes, happiness is ...Finding joy in simple things... yes, happiness is the journey, not the destination.rknairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10100922382794791736noreply@blogger.com