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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Aug 25, 2021

You do you, I’ll do me

In the years leading up to me becoming an ordained Hindu monk, I had so many people tell me how I should be living my life. They knew I was very spiritually inclined and in the year before becoming a monk, I made my intentions to be a monastic clear to people. It was fascinating to me how many of them gave me advice on how I should be living my life as I will become a monk soon. None of these peop...

Aug 18, 2021 Insights on Life

COVID: The Path Forward

The last 18-months have been challenging to say the least. For many, as a result of this pandemic, so much of life has changed - from work, income, lifestyle and more. For some, it has been devastating with the loss of loved ones, side effects of the virus and other severe reperc
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Aug 11, 2021 Insights on Life

Big Dog, Small Dog

I once observed a man walking a big Rottweiler dog on a sidewalk. As he passed along the fence of the front yard of a home, a small dog came running up from the front door of the home to the fence barking. This little furball threw its front paws on the chain-link fence that sep
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Aug 4, 2021 Insights on Life

Emotional Surfers

Do you get affected by other people’s emotions? Do other people’s emotions impact how you feel? Many people surf the wave of other people's emotions but emotional surfing is optional. The words that people say to you contain emotions. Sometimes they don’t contain much emotion a
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Jul 28, 2021 Awareness & the Mind

The Path to the Superconscious

The path to the superconscious mind requires you to go through your subconscious. The subconscious is the gatekeeper to the superconscious mind. Few spiritual texts or teachers speak about the importance of understanding the subconscious mind and how it works on the spiritual pat
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Jul 21, 2021 Awareness & the Mind

Mental Arguments

You’ve probably heard me describe the mind as a vast space with many different areas within it. And awareness as a glowing ball of light that can move within the mind to any of these areas. If you haven’t, then I encourage you to listen to my TEDx talk, Unwavering Focus, that ex
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Jul 14, 2021 Insights on Life

Dealing with Disappointment

To expect to go through life without disappointment is delusionary. Disappointment is a part of life. It is a part of life until we start to shift our perspective on disappointment. Disappointment comes when our expectations are not met. When we have invested so much in something
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