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Dandapani’s Blog

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Apr 28, 2021

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 event had around 3,000 attendees and an impressive lineup of speakers that included former prime ministers and president...

Apr 23, 2021
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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
Nov 10, 2020
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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
Nov 1, 2020
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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
Oct 13, 2020
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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
Oct 8, 2020
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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
Sep 30, 2020
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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