Preparation for Meditation
Your preparation for meditation is as important as your meditation practice, if not more so. The better you prepare, the better your meditation will be. Look at it this way, if someone very important…
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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.
Awareness vs. Consciousness
One of my online course meditation students asked about the difference between awareness and consciousness. I’m glad the student posed this question.
Overcoming Anxiety
I've taken a long hiatus from blogging. My apologies. The last few months have been filled with speaking engagements around the world and working on a few important projects including the development…
Slow Down or Simplify
A couple of weeks ago when I was in Berlin where I gave a keynote titled “Mastering your Mind” to a group of people involved in Private Equity and Investing, an individual said to me after my talk “I…
Why people don't change
I don’t want to sound pessimistic but the honest truth is that most people don’t want to change badly enough, and that is why they can’t sustain changes in their lives.You have to want change so…
Apples and Oranges
When you desire apples more than you do oranges is when you will start to choose apples instead of oranges. Life is the same way too.
Memory and Awareness
A few days ago one of the students of my 12-week online course "Introduction to Meditation" asked the following question on our online forum. "How are memories and awareness related?"
The Colored Sand Makers of Tamil Nadu
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of my photography posts. As many of you know I am passionate about photography. During a recent trip to South India in December last year I drove past a…
A Distracted Subconscious
The subconscious is built on patterns and impressions. If the patterns within the subconscious are distracted of nature then the subconscious is naturally distracted. In order to meditate, patterns…
Everything begins in the mental plane
Everything begins in the mental plane first before it manifests in the physical plane. You think to yourself “I would like some ice-cream” first then you get up and go and get yourself some…
Be Specific
It is that time of the year when most people are absorbed in talking about and creating new year resolutions. January 1st brings with it a wave of hope to people allowing them to believe that they…
Undivided Attention
I’ve experienced a few times when the person I'm with picks up their phone during a conversation to check a text message or answer a call. To me, this is plain rude. If I'm taking time out of my life…
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