The Missing Link to Mindfulness
Mindfulness and observation are states of being and not something that can be practiced. What you can practice is ...
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Timeless wisdom for a focused life.
Teachings on awareness, energy, and purpose — alongside the retreats, talks, and travels that fill the rest of the journey. Drawn from ten years as a Hindu monk and decades of teaching, written to be applied to your life today.
Making the Case
In speaking at events around the world, I realized that I have not really made the case as to why we need to focus
An Extended Hiatus
It’s been 5-months since I sent my last blog post. I was not planning for such a long hiatus from this but moving my family to Costa Rica from the US during a pandemic has been quite all-consuming…
An Easy Target
Celebrate, don’t criticize. Timely constructive criticism shared with empathy and love with the sole intent to selflessly serve on the other hand.
America ... I love
Eleven years ago I made the most difficult decision of my life. The decision to not renew my monastic vows and hence to stop living a life as a Hindu monastic. I left my guru’s monastery in Hawaii…
Lesson Noted, Lesson Learnt
A couple of weeks back I was speaking with an entrepreneur who shared with me that she got involved in a personal issue with her client that she should have stayed out of. At that time she felt it…
Commit to a path
It’s only when you commit to a spiritual path can you truly make progress. In fact, this applies to any path leading to a clearly defined goal. But people are terrified of commitment. They would…
Push The Horizon
It is hard to care about anyone or anything when you only think of yourself or just today. But when you push the horizon further it is natural to start seeing the bigger picture and start caring.
Too Young to Die
When you don’t value your time on this planet enough is when you don’t see the need to live a focused life.
Build a Dam
The rate and volume at which information comes at us today is unparalleled in human history. It seems that wherever we go there is a barrage of information thrown at us - warranted or not, it’s…
The Superconscious Mind
If you were to look at the mind in a simplified way you can say that there are three states of mind.
A Focused Life
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