Lata Mani

Meditation has become foreign territory in this time. Gone are the days when all I had to do was sit before the altar to be dissolved into silent blissfulness.

Betwixt and Between

December 13, 2015 Lata Mani

We are all betwixt and between, at all times and in a number of ways. Extract from The Tantra Chronicles.

And We Are Grateful Once More For the Impermanence of Things

October 30, 2015 Lata Mani

Reflections on the zig zags of healing…

The Atomic Implosion of Longing

October 10, 2015 Lata Mani

After a brief hiatus, a fragment from The Longing Heart.

Humans and Other Beings

August 28, 2015 Lata Mani

Although many persist in conceiving of humans as superior to other species, it turns out that humans have to consciously learn what other beings already know.

Azan

August 15, 2015 Lata Mani

It came upon us suddenly. Like the roar of silence that dissolves sound and suspends time. Everything paused. Half-syllables of commerce on the cusp of a transaction.

Auto-Biography

August 2, 2015 Lata Mani

Lata Mani reads Auto-Biography, the opening chapter of Interleaves (5.50 minutes).

Karma Reconsidered

July 21, 2015 Lata Mani

The Sanskrit word karma has migrated into the English language and commonly used to denote good or bad luck deemed to be the effect of fate or consequence. While this use is not entirely erroneous, karma remains an oversimplified and much misunderstood concept.

For Our Wor(l)ds to Touch

July 5, 2015 Lata Mani

Illness has been a great teacher in my life though I do not claim ontological priority for suffering. This piece, circa January 1997, draws from an audio journal I kept during the mid-1990s in the depths of living with a brain injury.

What it is/What it isn’t

June 13, 2015 Lata Mani

Is it possible to bring a moment of pause to a virtual world reverberating with the prodigious noise of human effort? Or does this fact - our cultural precondition - invite us to do just that?