Obama: analysis of speech success
As usual his speech was excellent. At the end we must remember that he is a human like you and me. However several factors have lead him to be the icon that he represents now: 1. His country: No denying, the same guy in Nepal would not be as impressive. If born in Nepal he…
Baby rearing and nation building
Taking care of my baby i see a great man who will follow my journey to personal glory. But as i look at passerby’s watching him indifferently when i take him on a stroll, i wonder , “One day every one will stop and get his blessing for material and spiritual purposes.” Life is amazing….
Fear and Indecision
I consider myself so lucky to be able to live all four-folds of life simultaneously: the brahmacharya, the householder, the career man and the renunciant. I’ll talk more about them in details in another post. Now i want to talk about the great leverage this simultaneous 4-fold life style gives to me and if you…
“Internet Meditation”
When i say that i meditate people ask me what style i follow or who is my guru. Well i never had a formal guru for meditation although i accept many gurus for other things like successful business life, writing career, and social life. Meditation always came to me naturally. I change my style every time i…
Spiritual housekeeping
When you are driving there is a mechanism to tell you if the car is over heated. If the arrow goes up beyond the certain point, then you have to stop and fix the problem before the engine burns. But have you created such a mechanism in your life to tell you whether you are…
Luxury is not good for leadership
Nepal’s new PM got a car that cost 10 million rupees. It is lots of money. The car will do good to his bums and his nostrils but not to his image. Nepalese people are looking for a leader who will not indulge in the trappings of power. In Nepal they are: 1. Expensive cars…
The new truth about getting rich or simply surviving
Did you ever care that your plumber or your electrician , the local laborer, the cabbie , the grocery shop owner and similar people you buy services or products from, survive, have enough to eat or not? You don’t. you buy what you need from them, and then you don’t want to hear from them. …
A new way to look at career problems
Look at the world around you. Many of us won’t have to time to do that simple thing. When i was young and deciding on the career that i would pursue, i made it a point that my career will allow me time to look both outside and inside myself on a regular basis. I…
Living with elderly parents
It is an emotionally challenging aspect of life. Many people are unaware of the psychological impact it has both on the elderly parents and the young generation. As a result they take the conflicts that arise either in silence or mental-verbal violence. In silence, the quality of life detoriates, in violence no life remains. The…
What’s in a new year anyway?
The best part of any new year for me is the reflection of the past year followed by the contemplation of the coming year. Give it a try… We need to find any reason there is to look back at life and not wait for the day we are on our death bed. Every new…