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Started using hash/marijuana/pep-pills/alcohol while on campus but somehow maneged to Graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay). After wasting more than half my life in drugs & alcohol I kicked the habit on the evening of 29th June 1990. Not wanting any other person to go through the shit-houses & degradation that follows addiction, I started my research to find an effective solution that was easy and simple to follow. I found it in the 6 Precepts and Vipassana meditation. These paths not only liberate us from our various addiction and from our attitudes, beliefs & feelings but from life itself. Now, I've set out to write a book on it.
We are angels, we are Stardust.... & ....Death gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws!
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The Science of Liberation (Nibbana, Nirvana or Moksha) (blog entry)
Here's a letter I'd written some years back to a friend explaining the scientific nature of the Buddha's teaching -- Vipassana meditation:


>>I looked at you web page www.dhamma.org for meditation. Looks very interesting. I

>h... read more
blog entry posted Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:11 PM permalink - 1 comment
My Blogs are on: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rajiv.behappy (blog entry) blog.360.yahoo.com/rajiv.behappy

epaper.timesofindia.com/Reposi.../ml.asp
blog entry posted Wed, November 7, 2007 - 11:49 AM permalink - 0 comments
4th Step -- Detailed instructions, maybe (blog entry) Posted on Sun, January 7, 2007 - 6:36 AM

I've seen a number of those 4th Step work-sheets the BB way. But I think they're too complicated and tedious for a 1st timer. So I've simplified it by removing the 2nd column all together.

"..i reali... read more
blog entry posted Fri, January 19, 2007 - 5:57 PM permalink - 1 comment
4th Step Directions (blog entry) Re: step four jittersToday, 7:24 PM
I'm so glad that you're now thinking of doin ur 4th. Yes it is scary when we do it alone. the full step is "We made a ....inventory of ourselves." If it's done with your guide/sponsor counsellor or helper/frie... read more
blog entry posted Thu, August 31, 2006 - 7:27 PM permalink - 1 comment
Forgiveness is Arrogance personified (blog entry)
"Forgiving" is the highest form of human ARROGANCE.

LEAVE THAT TO GOD OR HIGHER-POWER OR HIS LIKE.

Whenever we try to forgive, we are in fact "Playing God."

Forgiving & all the so-called 'Principles" are the paths followed by the reh... read more
blog entry posted Wed, August 16, 2006 - 8:50 AM permalink - 1 comment
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The Science of Liberation (Nibbana, Nirvana or Moksha)

Here's a letter I'd written some years back to a friend explaining the scientific nature of the Buddha's teaching -- Vipassana meditation:


>>I looked at you web page www.dhamma.org for meditation. Looks very interesting. I

>have practiced Transcendental meditation on and off for 20 years,
>How does this differ, or does it?

It sure is a lot different. I've not practiced the other types of meditations but I think that most of them deal with concentrating & shar... read more
Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:11 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
My Blogs are on: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rajiv.behappy
blog.360.yahoo.com/rajiv.behappy

epaper.timesofindia.com/Reposi.../ml.asp
Wed, November 7, 2007 - 11:49 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
4th Step -- Detailed instructions, maybe
Posted on Sun, January 7, 2007 - 6:36 AM

I've seen a number of those 4th Step work-sheets the BB way. But I think they're too complicated and tedious for a 1st timer. So I've simplified it by removing the 2nd column all together.

"..i realize some people can't write or think of their behaviors without anxiety, thus the procrastination."

In the 2nd column we're taking an inventory of the other person and not ourselves. So we skip it. 1st I ask them to put down a few resentments, even... read more
Fri, January 19, 2007 - 5:57 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
4th Step Directions
Re: step four jittersToday, 7:24 PM
I'm so glad that you're now thinking of doin ur 4th. Yes it is scary when we do it alone. the full step is "We made a ....inventory of ourselves." If it's done with your guide/sponsor counsellor or helper/friend it's much easier. That's how Dr Bob and the original AA members did it, with someone else -- not alone.
So if you can be with someone & write it'll help. You could go to an AA club sit by yourself & write it there.
The direction of the 4th Ste... read more
Thu, August 31, 2006 - 7:27 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Forgiveness is Arrogance personified

"Forgiving" is the highest form of human ARROGANCE.

LEAVE THAT TO GOD OR HIGHER-POWER OR HIS LIKE.

Whenever we try to forgive, we are in fact "Playing God."

Forgiving & all the so-called 'Principles" are the paths followed by the rehabs, treatment & religion and does not contribute to SPIRITUALITY but only to religiosity & dogmas & fights. For when we forgive we become different, one-up on the other person which ultimately leads to conflicts & WARs.

On our 12 Step path we onl... read more
Wed, August 16, 2006 - 8:50 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
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Rajiv is a man who does "practice what he preaches." An independent thinker, I learn much from him. Even when we don't see eye-to-eye the conversation continues as does his warmth and support. Thanks Rajiv
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