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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 prior to my guru’s death he had set up a system wherein should a long-serving monastic leave the monastery, the monastery w...
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Oct 13, 2020 3 MINUTES READ
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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Oct 8, 2020 5 MINUTES READ
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 rather, as my guru would say, “be committed to not being committed”. Commitment for
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Sep 30, 2020 3 MINUTES READ
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. Let me ask you a series of questions to make my point. If you had children, would
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Sep 23, 2020 3 MINUTES READ
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. Life is an absolutely precious gift that can be taken away at any time. This is a fact not something that is debatable. When I was 21 years old a friend of mine passed aw
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Sep 14, 2020 3 MINUTES READ
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 forced upon us. It’s not only information but things and people as well. It’s easier
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Sep 9, 2020 3 MINUTES READ
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. The conscious, the subconscious and the superconscious mind. What is the superconscious mind? My guru defines it as the “The mind of light, the all-knowing intelligence of the
