Our Connections: Giving, Exchanging and Sharing

Our Connections: Giving, Exchanging and Sharing

In the last post we talked about avidyaΒ (not knowledge) or ignorance, that results in virupanΒ (distorted image of reality) about the real nature of things. What is meant by real nature of things? In simplest and crudest of forms it can be translated as, β€˜we are much more than our bodies.’ Any serious practitioner of meditation, at some point, has felt (or will feel) β€“β€˜an expansion of the self’ and β€˜a connection to many (if not every) things in the universe.’