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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.

LearnJul 24, 20171 min

Life and Energy

Your life is a manifestation of where you put your energy. Wherever you put your energy in your life, that’s what starts to manifest in your life. The people around you, the things around you, the…

LearnJul 24, 20171 min

Your Spine, Your Center

The meditator’s goal, on the Hindu spiritual path of Raja Yoga, is to first become aware of energy and then to familiarize himself with it. Next he learns to harness this energy so it does not all…

LearnJul 19, 20171 min

Choose where your energy flows

“By wisely discriminating where our energy flows, we can with the powers of concentration channel our energies to specific areas in our lives that we want to cultivate.” ~ Dandapani

Photography & TravelJul 18, 20171 min

A Day in the Floating City

I hope to share with you, once or twice a month, one of my passions -- photography. I believe it's so important to make time in life for what you love and who you love. I love photography and always…

The Spiritual PathJul 18, 20171 min

How To Work With Guilt

One of the things to cultivate on the spiritual path is self-acceptance. Right this moment, you are the sum total of many, many incarnations. It took hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years,…

Awareness & the MindJul 16, 20171 min

Technology and Concentration

I’ve seen and heard many people hold up their smartphones and say, “These things are ruining our lives.” I beg to disagree. Smartphones are not ruining our lives. They are wonderful devices with…

Costa Rica Spiritual SanctuaryJul 14, 20173 min

Siva Ashram Update - April 2017 Part 2

This is Part 2 of our April 2017 update on the work that we are doing to develop Siva Ashram in Costa Rica. If you missed the Part 1 update, you can read and watch the video here. After our friends…

LearnJul 12, 20171 min

Simplify your life

“Every year most people accumulate more and more things in their life. Things, like people, can uplift or consume energy. The fewer things you have the less energy you lose.” ~ Dandapani

LearnJul 11, 20171 min

How to Overcome Distraction

People jump from one thing to another to another all day long, becoming slaves to their technology. Most people allow technology to control where their awareness goes in their mind. Every time your…

The Spiritual PathJul 10, 20171 min

Should we try to remember our past lives?

Through a clear and disciplined spiritual practice of self development and growth, you tend to see more things within yourself, not only from this life but also from previous lives. When you come to…

Awareness & the MindJul 9, 20171 min

Misconceptions of Mindfulness in the Workplace

We should start by defining the word "mindfulness." I define it as a state of being fully aware of what one is engaged in at any particular moment. So many people are talking about mindfulness but I…

LearnJul 5, 20171 min

How to Concentrate

“Do one thing at a time! Consciously choose where your awareness goes.” ~ Dandapani

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