while I am away I would like you to write something on my Blog!
Photo copyright Suresh Gundappa 2008
I am off for a week to spend time with myself! I am going to spend next five days just meditating in a resort.
Right now I don’t have anything to write except leaving you with a photograph. I am hoping that for this week you will fill up the lines!
Love
Suresh
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
see you soon friend, your pearls of wisdom meanwhile continue to shine even without you!
“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”
I guess i can hope you will bring more wisdom to your readers after this trip!
the whole moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the flower
What a inspiring blog , suresh , I just felt like writing as if you asked me a question
“So many faces in and out of my life; some will last, some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and good byes, I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.”
love your work and love your art, you inspire
the verses u left in my blog are lovely, pls enjoy your week and tell us more when you will be back in any artistical form. I d like to know where you do focus every time you are in meditation, luv, r.
Have the best time suresh. for sure you will enjoy the time being with your self. Do i need to add thats tone of the best time one will have, to be with yourself. to reflect of all the deeds that you have done and will be doing. Enjoy, and be blessed
Have the best time suresh. for sure you will enjoy the time being with your self. Do i need to add thats tone of the best time one will have, to be with yourself. to reflect of all the deeds that you have done and will be doing. Enjoy, and be blessed.
I wrote at one of your most interesting (well its pretty hard to say, just an approximation
) posts… on education
Visiting your site is a wonderful meditation on the beauty of nature and spirit. Exquisite!
oh, God, Surech, this is THE MOST GORGIOUS picture of all yours….I am speechless…You heart must be very pure to be able to capture this…
“to spend next five days just meditating in a resort” - is truly the best thing one can do as a holiday!! enjoy!
fantastic picture hats off to you suresh
I think your holidays are coming to over and you will be back
hope you had a wonderful holiday away from all your office commerce and blog
I came to your website through your beautiful Tiger Eyes photograph. Congratulations on your lovely photographs and blog !
while you were away … (were you really? I somehow ended up remembering these pages and you once in a way as if you never really were away) …this thought had occurred to me but I procrastinated writing it down until now.
I sometimes get concerns about how much I am under-utilizing my life - shouldnt I be achieving lots of things? assuming an average life span of 70 half my life is already over and I havent made lots of money to assure myself of a luxurious life with financial security nor have I made some world changing discovery nor have I positively touched people’s lives or made any significant contribution to society. I feel helpless and lost.
Then I recall some of the ideas here about ambitions, and then I esp recall something you had mentioned somewhere of some Sufi master who is some unknown person who simply sweeps the streets of Pakistan all day. Then i realise that if I can just be even 1% cleanse my heart and be as unburdened and lighthearted and down to earth as such a person - this is the one and only thing that really matters - there’s nothing more to achieve than that. All these other temporary ambitions merely become irrelevant consequences out of countless outcomes. Who am I to nominate myself for such things
…and I feel more at peace…
Thanks Sanjay,
As always you fill up my blog with best of writings,
It’s strange how we move from one goal to other so quickly, Education, Job, house, wealth - the list keeps on increasing. but whenever we attain peace as a first step. it’s amazing how we attract everything we need. I guess most of the people lives end up in barking at wrong tree.
couldn’t agree with you more, I am fortunate to be part of huge sufi community and most of them turn out to be ordinary and so ordinary it seems that extra-ordinary is name of the ordinary.
Such a nice photo Suresh.. Honestly haven’t visited your blog since long.. One of the reasons is ‘your complex thoughts and posts’..
I best thing I would love about your blog is photographs….
Most of the time when I read your and Sanjay’s lines, I start feeling like ‘ ee jeevanevella nashwara types ‘.. Well, my personal thoughts so!
I thought you could contribute something for this good cause, pls go through this blog at your free time…http://jointhehands.blogspot.com
Thanks,
Veena
Thats a really nice site Veena.
Wrt ‘ee jevanevella nashwara’ (this life is so impermanent) feeling - is it better to not feel it and (unknowingly of course) assume that everything will be as it is forever?
Probably if I did not have any appreciation for silence / meditation, if I’d simply tried to understand all the words here, maybe I might’ve found it pretty complex as well. Some people who read what I write but havent met me for a long time wonder if I’m a very serious fellow… but my colleagues in US ask me if I’ve taken over the humor dept over here having heard from others here, as I am in general a very active fellow making everyone laugh (or atleast trying
) a lot of the time and also somehow have managed to con clients into thinking I’m very efficient at work as well.
A really simple book if you like… I thoroughly enjoyed reading this - it had many practical ideas implementable in ordinary day to day situations. Seven Laws of Spiritual Success by Deepak Chopra. It had many beautiful ideas which I hope to cultivate better over time.
Dear Suresh Gundappa
while reading your blog, I experience almost the same peace as while painting. As I paint, the problems vanish from my sight and even I myself exist no more - the light becomes everything while painting and the colors talk while painting. The same happens while reading your blog. You put something between the lines here and thus the peace fills my heart while reading you as if like I would paint myself.
Thank you
I love your photographs! I just wanted to tell you that.
This with the blue flowers are is stunning.
Best of wishes!