About this blog

This blog aims to be not so much self-reflective as self-educating, and if in the process that educates others or taps into what viewers are interested in, that is a contribution to society, and we are all keen to make one, fundamentally, yes?
So the blog will explore a range of topics that interest a 21st century thinker (some topics have also interested past thinkers).
To start with, what does the title mean? In my own words, 'right intention' is about one's motive for doing everything - talking, listening, acting, loving, relating, walking, swimming etc etc. It includes not just right intention with people but also with animals and other living things (the biggest one being the earth). How I have longed to communicate at a deeper level with the world. So far books and the inner workings of the minds of characters have been my only source of deeper connection. So here is this blog.
But to define 'right intention' at a more Vipassana or Buddhist level (as this is where the term originates) I will have to source others. Buddha, in his sojourn under the Bodhisattva tree, observed and categorised his thoughts into two baskets - 'desire, ill will, and harmfulness' (one we are all familiar with) and 'renunciation, good will, and harmlessness'. Ideally the latter is the sort we want, and Buddha was insightfully able to dissolve the undesirable, suffering-provoking thoughts and nurture the life and happiness-giving thoughts, till he experienced only that kind.