Reflections Inspiration In his essay, “The Lesson of the Lilac,” the beloved spirituality teacher Eknath Easwaran describes how every morning from the window of his dining room he looked at a lilac bush. In spring, the scent of its opulent blossoms brought heady perfume his way. This heavenly experience continued for about three weeks. Then one day he noticed the delicate flowers turning brown. Their fragrance no longer filled the air. The tiny blossoms had taken their time to bloom, then flourish and fade. On the opposite end, a pine tree grows for thousands of years before it dies but it too takes its own time to grow. “Nature does not hurry,” writes Lao Tzu, “yet everything is accomplished.” You are on a writing journey inside and outside. It is......
Madhu Bazaz Wangu
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The founder of Mindful Writers Groups and Retreats, Dr. Madhu Bazaz Wangu has won awards from Writer’s Digest, Feather Quill, Readers Favorite, Next Generation Indie Book, Indie Excellence, and TAZ Awards. She inspires novice as well as advanced creative people to become better writers and creators, and authentic human beings by following the practice of Writing Meditation.
Madhu shares time-honored practices using personal anecdotes to teach Writing Meditation Practice (WMP). The practice is not only entertaining but also life transforming. Introduced to writers in 2011, it provides daily skills, tools and rituals for making yourself the better versions of you.
Madhu has written about her own struggle, trials and tribulations as well as pleasurable experiences that have come her way and taught her what it means to feel awe, wonder and afterglow of creative flow. Currently she is writing her eleventh book, the fifth fiction, tentatively titled, Meaning of My Life.
Dr. Wangu is a regular workshop presenter at writing conferences. She was the Featured Author at Beaver County Book Fest in 2017, Inaugural Guest at International Indo-American Literary Festival, 2020. That year she won Pennwriters Meritorious Award. In May 2023 she was the Lunch Keynote Speaker at Pennwriters Annual Conference.
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- 13 Dec 2024
- 12 Dec 2024
Reflections Inspiration If you have been practicing Writing Meditation for more than eleven months now, it may have already become an integral part of your day. You may have even developed a specific pattern that you follow to your own satisfaction. Bravo! However, if out of the five disciplines there are one or two that you have not been able to practice, jot down two reasons explaining to yourself why this is so. For each reason, write ideas for how you can still turn that around and learn to make it a habit. Try silent meditation of 5-10 minutes instead of the guided meditation that runs for about 15 minutes. If you don’t have time to journal, what about moving the practice to a time of day that is more convenient? Is......
- 11 Dec 2024
Reflection Inspiration I lost my parents, bother, brother-in-law, nephew, and then a grandnephew within the span of ten years. Just when the pain of separation, the crying, the sobbing, the mourning subsided, I began to contemplate my own mortality. Thoughts that I too could die at any moment kept circling my mind. I wondered if death would come quickly, or if I would die of old age. Through years of journaling and reading about death in religious scriptures, I chewed and digested wisdom about the fragility of human life and its impermanence. My own fiction reflects a keen interest in death and dying. Now, at the back of my mind, I’m finally a lot more comfortable with the thought of my own demise. What surprises me the most about these......