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Dandapani’s Blog

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May 13, 2021

Gratitude and Specificity

When we express gratitude or appreciation, it’s good to remember to be specific. For instance, instead of saying “thank you for being in my life”, you could consider saying “thank you for being in my life and always inspiring me to be a better version of myself”. Specificity matters. Instead of simply acknowledging to someone “You look lovely,” you could consider rephrasing the sentiment so that ...

May 5, 2021 Awareness & the Mind

The Missing Link to Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a popular buzzword at the moment with everyone and their grandma wanting to practice it, but most people don’t quite understand what mindfulness actually is. Let’s start by defining mindfulness. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines mindfulness as “the practice of
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Apr 28, 2021 Awareness & the Mind

Making the Case

In teaching or encouraging others to learn to focus, we have to make the case. What do I mean by that? Well, let me tell you a story about how I learned this very important lesson. In 2018, I was invited to speak at the 18th World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea. The 3-day
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Apr 23, 2021 News

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 and at times a little crippling. Thank you to those of you who have checked in wit
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Nov 10, 2020 Insights on Life

An Easy Target

This article, as one of my readers so nicely put it, is about “...success as a subject and a target for criticism.” "If men perceived their own faults as they do the faults of others, could misfortune ever come to them?" ~ Tiruvalluvar Many years ago I was having a cup of coffe
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Nov 1, 2020 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

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 and instead of going back to Australia, I moved to the mainland US. Many years pri
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Oct 13, 2020 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

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 was harmless to get involved in the conversation but later the whole thing played o
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