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Based on listening and experiencing Insight from Master Shi Heng Yi and Dandapani Not everyone wants mastery, some are content knowing people are trying but find the effort two daunting. The desire for mastery is internal. Once you have a desire for mastery you will encounter five hindrances on the way to self-mastery. All these are internal and your own. You need to recognize them. 1.        Sensual desires – the five senses seek experiences. Good food, good music, good smell, good variety of beverages, good attractive people etc all are pleasurable experiences, one can get a feel that indulging is satisfying and hence there is no need to work towards mastery – you don’t want to move on. They can be addictive - am I addicted? You will 2.        Ill will or aversion – am I feeling negative emotion. Against an object, situation or person. 3.        Sloth or heaviness or simpl...

I recalled the animated film ‘Inside Out’. Cartoon some may choose to call it, I prefer animated. It’s full of drama that our mind relishes. It has heroes and maybe villains. Only time will tell. What seems so limiting and maybe boring . Turn out to be the safety valve that we fail to remember . Knowing us inside out? Maybe that’s the larger game. Maybe we are creatures of smaller selves. Or maybe we are the smaller selves of a larger creature. Either way we are part of some cosmic chain. Hope one day I get to know myself ‘Inside Out’. Roopesh Mehta 01 Apr 2020