Buddhist Monastery

I just came from a mindfulness session that I have started attending since last week. It is nice to go and sit around in the Yurt (a teepee-like shaped tent made of fabric-looking sort of thing on Banff centre campus) with a small group of people and meditate and reflect on what's lurking under our mind, …

All the National Parks around the world?

The idea of spending some time, whether working or volunteering, in all or as-many-as-possible national parks around the world just came across my mind while I was visiting a small outdoor gear shop in Canmore with a friend of mine today after a short hike. I was just roaming around the shop, looking for nothing …

Air

I think most of us spend most of our time inside the building. Unless you have a big wide window that you open often throughout the day, we don't get much fresh air inside, do we? I mean, we do have air inside but the air is stagnant. There is no flow. If it is …

Death

I don't think many people think about death often while living a life. Don't freak out. I'm not thinking of suicide or something. I just think that death shouldn't be ignored as if it doesn't come until we are ready. We should be freer to take death as a part of our lives. We all …

Ageism

Do you really care how old the person you are talking to? Seems like lots of people actually do. Well, I understand that there are some sort of prejudices that you may have developed over your life time based on your personal experiences or the atmosphere of the society in which you live. It just …

People rather than abstract

I drew these, maybe in 2014 or early 2015. I just found them in my camera while trying to find something else and maybe get organized a little. I haven't done much drawing for quite a while.. I don't know. I once drew almost every night when I was sad for no apparent reasons. It …

Words

Have you ever thought about how meaningless words can be? I have been thinking on and off that whenever I describe something over and over, they seem to lose their meaning. For example, when you are faced with a situation that people ask you to introduce yourself, you sort of have to squeeze some words …

Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (2017)

I just finished reading this book. I think it took me about 2 weeks, on and off, to read this book. It is very easy to follow the flow of what the author is trying to say about minimalism. I don't know how I happened to have picked up this particular book. It is just …

Life in Banff

I have been quite busy since I moved to Banff. It has been already almost a week since I moved into Banff centre although I feel like I just moved in here yesterday. The Banff centre is right there in the picture- a bunch of campus-like buildings in a kind of circle on the left …