Awareness – The Story of your Journey in the Mind
Do you know that you are pure awareness traveling through the mind? Do you know that you are not the mind? Imagine for a while that you are awareness and imagine this awareness as a ball of pure…
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Awareness the Dog
Your awareness is like a little puppy. If you let it do what it wants and let it run around where it likes then when it grows up it will be uncontrollable.
3 Business Lessons I learnt in a Berlin restaurant
Last year in November I was invited to Berlin, Germany, to speak to the Berlin chapter of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). The night before the event the board members of the chapter invited…
Facing & Understanding Challenges
"All seekers accept as their own karma all experiences that come, however harsh or difficult, never uttering a syllable of complaint. Theirs is the power of surrender, accepting what is as it is, not…
Monastic Life to Entrepreneurship
Joe DeSena, founder of Spartan, interviews me on his Spartan Up Podcast about monastic life, affirmations, life's purpose and more.
How long does this high last?
Those of you who have been following my blog know that I have just returned from conducting Enstasy, my meditation confluence in Kerala, South India. One of the participants who had returned home to…
Understand the Spiritual Path
There are two things about the spiritual path that are really important for you to be clear on before you embark on this journey. First, is that you have a clear understanding of the philosophy that…
Preparing for Death - Life’s Inevitable Transition
You can prepare for it but no matter who you are you will feel the pain of letting go of this birth. It's like duct tape slowly being pulled off a hairy arm. Countless magnetic energetic cords break…
The 3 States of Mind
Someone recently asked me the following question on the three phases of the mind and I thought I'd share my response.
Meditating, starting a business, falling in love and other how-tos
It's been six whole months since I have blogged. That was the longest hiatus I have taken since I started blogging shortly after leaving the monastery 7 years ago. In that time lots have happened.…
Bringing Life to Meditation
Recently in privately training someone how to meditate I spent the first 3 days not even talking about meditation. There is a lot to learn before one even begins to sit down to meditate. Everybody is…
The Art of Charm: Monk with a Macbook
I recently did an interesting interview with Jordan Harbinger of “The Art of Charm.” I spoke a bit about my journey to becoming a monk, life in the monastery and then we had a great discussion about…
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