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Why did I not do any paid work for the last 22 years? Am I happy doing software development work (paid or voluntary) now?

Last updated on 8 Mar 2025 This post is in the context of my recent post on another blog: Restarted my commercial work career from payment received point of view, after a gap of 22 years,  https://raviswdev.blogspot.com/2025/03/restarted-my-commercial-work-career.html . A relevant extract from that post is given below: I recently received a commercial work payment from a friend for whom I have been doing a short-term software development assignment related to LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect login for a React frontend and AWS Java lambda backend app. I started that work as a two-week part-time free trial followed by a paid period. My last work related payment received was in early Sep. 2002. So my friend's payment has restarted my commercial work career from payment received point of view, after a gap of 22 years and around 6 months! --- end extract from my post on another blog --- This post has been triggered by some comments/questions I received on this matter. I thou...

Some miscellaneous Facebook posts & comments from Feb. 2025

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers may have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================    Very interesting to me! The "right behind the darkness that you perceive with closed eyes" part aligns well with some of the meditation sadhana that I do now. However, in my case, as of now,  in these aspects of my meditation practice, I have only limited experience of great peace and of the ever-present and changeless beingness/awareness (truth) that is my core reality. "Kingdom of God" implies something far more and that I have not experienced so far. FB post:  https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/pfbid02YWGoJcMYFqsuSw4ypsePpbESpd6vamd6348RtnWMQaXuAGZQiBUMwr2Q8GpawKGel shares a post having a quote...