INSIGHT

The disciples were involved in a heated discussion on the cause of human suffering.

Some said it came from selfishness. Others, from delusion. Yet others, from the inability to distinguish the real from the unreal.

When the Master was consulted, he said, "All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone."

PROJECTION

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?"

"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master.

"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?"

"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

© Anthony de Mello, SJ

Remember Shakti is an album that is a must listen. This is what happens when all kinds of music collide and get cooked into a wonderful cosmic soup. Yes another thing that is meaningful, enduring and worth living for: music. Music that drills into the soul, as the beat of a tabla or the notes that fall like flowers from the strings of an electric guitar, and makes anything and everything endurable: pain, loss, or numb emptiness.

Because when I sit down and let the sound bullet through me, I am pushed no put into a catapult and hurled over everything that is small and limited into something that is vast, something that dazzles with infinite possibilities and crash into something I can only call divinity.If beauty, stillness and ecstacy be the things that I seek to find in what can only be limited human organic patterns(DNA bits synthesised into long carbon chains), then music has enough and is infinitely more enduring.

Peace.