The Beginning of the Journey

Start Date: August 10, 2025
Duration: 4 weeks
Live Sessions: Sundays
Time: 6 – 7:30 PM (Indian Standard Time, IST) – Convert to your time zone
Status: Open for registration 

Let us begin a quiet journey into the human psyche — an immense and subtle field, not to be conquered or analyzed, but to be observed freshly.

In this beginning, there is no pressure to follow, believe, or become anything. Instead, we are simply invited to observe — to look inward without method, comparison, or philosophy. It’s the quiet opening of a journey into ourselves.

We explore what true awareness is — not the kind that can be practiced or forced, but the natural, effortless attention that arises in moments of crisis, beauty, or intensity. We see how this attention is often blocked by our urge to escape discomfort, and how our everyday attempts to be “mindful” may actually be forms of distraction.

This journey also explores the behavior of the mind — how it creates patterns, follows authority, and traps itself through its own conditioning. And in doing so, it raises a deeply human insight: that although we appear different on the surface, we are fundamentally similar in our psychological structures, desires, and insecurities.

This is not a journey of readymade answers, but of beginning to see. It prepares the ground to look not only at yourself, but also at others and the world around you — clearly and without distortion, free from outside influences and our own prejudices. It invites you to question not just what you think, but to look at the deeper process through which thought takes shape and limits itself.

We also begin to notice how the ego — which plays a central role in human conflict — expresses itself in subtle ways, even in the effort to be humble, good, or spiritual. This sense of ‘I’ sustains itself through comparison and the urge to become something, often hiding behind noble intention. Though it may offer moments of pride or pleasure, it often leads to a life of subtle conflict — of being hurt and hurting others. In its absence, there is a natural dignity — a way of living that does not divide or harm. That is why understanding the subtle ways of the ego is essential to going deeper in this journey.

Diving Deeper

Start Date: September 7, 2025

Duration: 4 weeks
Live Sessions: Sundays
Time: 6–7:30 PM IST
Status: Coming Soon

As we move deeper into ourselves, we come face to face with the foundation of our psychological suffering — how we relate to others.

This journey explores:

  • How inner emptiness or loneliness gives rise to dependency and emotional attachment, giving the illusion of connection.

  • How fear of loss drives possessiveness — and how possessiveness further deepens our loneliness, creating a vicious cycle.

  • How we mistake these patterns for love, while they actually prevent it.

  • How one reaction leads to another, forming a chain of psychological cause and effect.

  • How inner authority — in the form of ideals, spiritual goals, or conclusions — divides us from what we are.

  • Whether there is an intelligence beyond intellect and emotion — one that arises only in silence and freedom.

We also begin to question:

  • Why do we feel so incomplete within?

  • Why does the ego, which divides and isolates us, become the center of our lives?

  • Can there be a different way of being in relationship — not based on need, but unfolding through love and intelligence?

  • Is it possible to break the cycle of cause and effect without effort, but through insight?

    The Chain of Cause and Effect

    Every psychological movement carries its own consequence. When action comes from a fragment — from hurt, anger, or desire — it becomes the cause of new disorder. So, the mind lives in a self-propelling current: remembered hurts lead to motives, motives shape action, action breeds new memory — and the stream rolls on. Most of us remain trapped within this continuous chain of cause and effect, unable to break free.

    The question is whether this motion can be seen as it happens, without any interference. And is there an action that arises from the whole — one that includes the fragment but is not driven by it — and can such action ever be free of the chain of cause and effect?

    The Illusion of Inner Authority

    From childhood, we’ve been conditioned to follow — parents, teachers, religious figures, spiritual leaders, even our own internal “shoulds.” The moment we hold an ideal — a model of what we should become — a subtle conflict begins. We start striving, comparing, measuring ourselves against an imagined state. This movement may appear noble, but it creates inner conflict that spills outward — a subtle but exhausting waste of energy.

    We begin to ask: can there be transformation without ideals, without authority — not even the authority of our own conclusions? We question whether true intelligence lies not in following ideals, but in seeing clearly.

    The Birth of Intelligence

    Intelligence is not the same as intellect. The intellect can reason and analyze, yet its reach is limited when it operates within the boundaries of accumulated knowledge, beliefs, and ideals. Nor is intelligence found when intellect dominates and emotion is pushed aside.

    Ego-driven emotions — the urge to possess, control, or seek validation — clearly distort perception, and even emotions that are free of ego are not intelligence by themselves. So the question arises: is there an intelligence that goes beyond both — one where intellect and emotion function in harmony, and are free from the residue of the past?

    Such intelligence has a different quality: it listens without distortion, sees without bias, and acts without conflict. It cannot be cultivated through method; it appears when the mind is wholly attentive, no longer trying to control, suppress, or become. In that stillness there is a clarity untouched by memory — and perhaps only in that clarity can a truly intelligent way of living begin.

Unravelling Serious Traps

Start Date: October 5, 2025
Duration: 4 weeks
Live Sessions: Sundays
Time: 6–7:30 PM IST
Status: Registration opens soon

Let us now turn to some of the deeper traps that shape our experience of life — subtle forces that often go unnoticed.

This journey explores:

  • The way many religious teachings have condemned natural desires as sinful or indulgent, promoting ideals of renunciation that lead to suppression and inner conflict.

  • How society conditions us to chase unnecessary goals — ideals, ideologies, possessions — creating an endless pursuit of pleasure that often leads to deeper pain.

  • The memory of past sensation giving rise to a chase for pleasure — often disconnected from natural need and leading to pain.

  • How such pursuits — shaped by both outer conditioning and personal experience — strengthen the ego, which is sustained by comparison, accumulation, and the urge to become.

  • How fear gives rise to motives, and how action that springs from fear or the past becomes fragmentary.

  • Whether fear, with all its complexity, can truly end — and if so, whether it ends through effort or insight.

We begin to observe:

  • How desire creates the illusion of fulfillment while deepening the sense of inner lack.

  • How the structure of self-centered thinking influences every relationship and decision.

  • Whether action can arise from clarity — an action that is free from both fear and the residue of past experience.

    The Discovery of True Passion

    Many of us long to find our true passion — something that brings meaning and joy. But when the mind is caught in the pursuit of pleasure, ambition, or self-importance, what appears to be passion may merely be the ego seeking fulfillment. True passion arises when the ego comes to an end — when the mind is no longer shaped by fear, comparison, or external influence. In that freedom, what we love to do reveals itself naturally — without the need for reward or recognition.

    The Question of Fear

    Fear is a deeply complex experience — and unless something is broken within us or dulled by substances, every human being feels it. Yet most of us try to escape it. But isn’t the attempt to run away from fear itself a form of fear? If we’re afraid of fear, we’re already caught in it.

    The investigation of fear is equally subtle. When fear is present, there is usually a motive — a desire to be free from it. But when investigation is guided by motive, it becomes distorted; the motive shapes the direction of inquiry. The reverse is also true: where there is a motive, there is often a hidden fear — the fear of not achieving what we want.

    So the question arises: is it possible to look at fear without any motive at all? Only such an unconditioned observation — free of escape, suppression, or conclusion — can reveal the true nature of fear.

    Hurt

    We carry images — of ourselves and of others — and these images shape our relationships. Through experiences of hurt and flattery, and through the accumulated knowledge of ideals and philosophies, we begin to form these images — of who we are and who others are — and each new encounter gets filtered through these mental constructs.

    When someone says something that challenges our self-image, we feel hurt. Similarly, others are hurt when our words or actions threaten their sense of identity. Often, this hurt is unintentional, but it accumulates and damages the fabric of our relationships.

    At the center of this hurt is the image — the ego — that seeks recognition, security, and approval. As long as this image exists, it is vulnerable and will inevitably be wounded.

    Is it possible to explore the question of hurt deeply and come upon a way of living without this image — not through suppression or control, but through insight?

    Where there is no image, there is no hurt — and so no need for forgiveness. But as long as the image remains, forgiveness becomes a noble response, even though the hurt itself is often still carried within. Hurt is not a small matter. If left unresolved, it breeds resentment, anger, and ultimately violence.

The Journey May be Endless

Start Date: November 2, 2025
Duration: 4 weeks
Live Sessions: Sundays
Time: 6–7:30 PM IST
Status: Waitlist Open

In this final journey we do not seek to achieve peace; instead, we enquire into what prevents its natural flowering — and whether those obstacles can end without struggle.

From Violence to Peace: The Ground for Global Unity

We look at how unresolved hurt hardens into anger — and how, when shaped by ideology, nationalism, or personal pride, anger spills outward as violence and war. Even the ideal of peace can become divisive when it is imposed on others; a mind that clings to any ideal is already in conflict with those who differ.

The question, then, is whether there can be a way of living in which the mind itself is peaceful — free of the images, fears, and motives that breed division. Only from such inward order could true cooperation arise, allowing humanity to face poverty, disease, and ecological crisis together rather than as competing factions.

The Observer and the Observed

The observer separates itself from the state it observes and tries to change it — yet remains caught in the same state.

In the physical world, the idea of “what should be” is natural — a dirty room can be cleaned, a house can be built, and matter allows itself to be altered.

But in the psychological realm, every opposite contains its own opposite. When I fight the state of anger, I am still in conflict — still being violent. If I am greedy and try to become non-greedy, I am merely being greedy to attain a non-greedy state. If I am attached and begin to practice detachment, I am attached to the idea of detachment.

There is only the fact of “what is.” The “what should be” is an illusion — it does not exist. When I see this clearly, and begin to observe the actual state without resistance or escape, a shift takes place.

Then, the observer is the observed — and the state reveals itself completely. In that clarity, there is a natural ending of the state — not through control, but through insight.

Meditation: Emptiness, Silence, and the Infinite

The very act of observing our psychological movements — without distortion — is the beginning of meditation. When the mind is free of problems, formulas, and accumulated knowledge, it is no longer confined to the particular. It becomes empty — not in the sense of lacking, but because particular knowledge has ended and the mind is open to everything. In that emptiness, there is freedom, and the mind no longer clings to any content.

It emerges from emptiness and dies back into it — so there is no real beginning or ending, for both the emergence and the dissolution unfold within the vast emptiness, ever new from moment to moment. This is the state of creativity. Such a mind mirrors the order of the universe, where matter is born and dies back into the universe.

In the state of meditation, there is a silence that cannot be described or imagined. Since observation is no longer shaped by the past, there is a total observation that is not restricted by prejudices, images, likes, and dislikes. And from that observation arises deep sensitivity — which is love. There is an intelligence in operation — one that moves without method, without ideology, without authority.

Meditation, then, is not something separate from life. It is to see without image — whether it’s your partner, a tree, or a passing animal — to meet life without the filters of authority. There is a sense of beauty in it. It is a state of joy.

Meditation Without Practice

True meditation is not a practice. It cannot be cultivated, perfected, or repeated. It begins only when psychological becoming ends — when thought no longer chases, compares, or struggles to transform itself.

In the stillness that follows, something entirely new comes into being. Not brought about by effort, nor given by ideal — it is revealed when the mind is quiet.

Meditation is not something you do — it is what unfolds when the noise of becoming falls away.