Louis Kahn: A spiritual journey through paintings and architecture

Spirituality is not a career. It is a way of life. It is a development of understanding of a world more than mere materials. It is the realisation of the part of ourselves which is more than body and mind. Louis Kahn (1901-1974) was a modern architect, who was in this search for 'the spirit...

When natural light met trees!

This image is of a pathway to my farm, A space created by natural light and trees As an architect, I am always looking at spaces. It is always an exercise of imagination to find new kinds of spaces and their translation in to architecture. This image is from my farm, where I observed a...

The balance between present and future

There is a story about Buddha and a musician who was discouraged with his meditation practice. The Buddha asked :"What happens when you tune your instrument too tightly?" "The strings break," the musician replied."And what happens when you string it too loosely?""When it's too loose, no sound comes out," the musician answered. "The string that...

3 Life lessons to be learned from this simple zen story.

Abraham Lincoln once asked one of his secretaries, "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?". "Five," replied the secretary. "No," said the President, "The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." If you like reading short stories, you must go through the...

When I saw the world as a never-ending loop.

This was the letter I wrote to myself about 2 years ago. It was the time of confusion and overthinking about almost everything. But yet there seemed to be some insight trying to come out through these words: "Almost 22 now. Things have changed a lot since last writing which was at 20. This one...

A different method for setting Goals

Why does every Human on earth need a goal? Human mind is an attention oriented entity. I wrote in my earlier article "on the nature of mind" that the mind can generate intense force with the things it can identify itself with. In other words, it needs to obsess on something to create that irresistible...

On The Nature of Mind

I used to meditate a few years ago. I lost that habit due to ignorance and forgetting the priorities in life. Just a week ago, I started again to meditate for some time in the morning. I do not have a goal to reach anywhere with it. It is just a curious exploration of understanding...

Mastery is the only way.

"Don't try to start the work. Try to finish the work." An experienced and quite a successful person told me one day. And as I thought about it, I came to realise that it is a really good advise. These days many people keep changing their area of work just for the sake of novelty...

The importance of asking right Questions to yourself.

I have a routine. Just like most of you. In this routine. Almost all of my days for the past one and half year have been very similar to each-other. And In this routine, I sometimes feel that this kind of a routine has a negative effect on creativity. Because once you get so comfortable...