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Mar 29, 2016

Understanding a Person’s Mind

Understanding people’s nature and being aware of it when dealing with them is vital for a peaceful and positive outcome. Know your mind in order to know their mind. Know your nature in order to know their nature. You must know you first. For there is no difference between you and them. There is but one mind. Knowing where someone is in their mind bestows upon you the great blessing on how best t...

Mar 29, 2016 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

The Four Stages of Life

This talk is an excerpt of a 2-hour Conversations on the Spiritual Path talk held at Jane’s House of Wellbeing in St. Charles, Missouri. An attendee asks me to share some insights on the Hindu concept of the four stages of life. What are they, at what age do the different stages
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Mar 22, 2016 Podcasts & Videos

Unwavering Focus - a TEDxReno talk

On October 2nd last year I was honored to be invited to speak and to give the opening talk at TEDx Reno. The abandoned Lear Theater in Reno had been transformed on the inside to host the talks. I titled my opening keynote "Unwavering Focus". A special thank you to my friend Rolf
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Feb 17, 2016 Insights on Life

Directing Desire

One never really gets to the point in their life where all desire goes away. As my guru says "desire is life". I often hear older people say I don't have desires any more. I beg to defer. You do have desires. You just no longer desire what you use to desire. You have new desires.
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Feb 15, 2016 Awareness & the Mind

How to view Problems

There are two ways to view problems. You can view it from the intellect or view it from the superconscious. The intellect views "problems" as problems. The superconscious views "problems" as repeated subconscious patterns that need to be adjusted. The intellect solves problems
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Feb 14, 2016 Insights on Life

Advice from a 126-year old Monk

Swami Bua was a dear friend of mine. I was first introduced to him when I lived as a monk at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. My guru had known Swami Bua for years now and had invited him to spend a week or so with us at the monastery to celebrate a yearly festival. Swami Bua a
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Feb 8, 2016 Awareness & the Mind

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 white light. Now imagine you are this ball, pure awareness, flowing through the mind.
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