Doodles of the Insane

What are we? We raise tombs, inside us. We close gates, across us. We build walls, around us. We don’t open up ourselves to everyone. We sense and safeguard our something. Something could be anything. A cherished memory. A painful scar. A past trauma. A missing soul. An insatiable desire. An unreachable dream. We let a selected few   inside our inner sanctum, hoping they would find a way. So, we don’t scream,   as we are being stripped layer by layer, by them, of our insecurities and confusions, of our hopes and fears. As we let the one   peel our skin and fascia, alive, to gain access into our naked core, We do muffle into our whispers, to let them continue, to see if they have got   the courage to handle us. Building mazes within ourselves, we hope that our loved ones, will be lost inside us forever. Caught in between white and black, We realize that we are neither and We fear to ...

Six months back, I found my life spiraling back into yet another black hole and so I was lost in a limbo. I tried to regain myself with various modalities of rejuvenation. I researched about the different types of meditation techniques available and came upon this name called “Vipassana”. It rang a bell somewhere in the corner of my mind. As I traced the origin of the sounds, I realized that one of my favorite author Yuval Noah Harari (author of sapiens) had recommended the same in his recent book, “21 Lessons for the 21st century” and found it a life changing experience. So I dug more into this ancient technique called “Vipassana Meditation”, said to be discovered by Buddha and transmitted across centuries by a line of dedicated teachers. Vipassana literally means awareness of sensations. The main things that attracted me to this meditation was that it was non-religious(open to all religion) and non-commercial(completely free).But the rules of the course were scary. It ...