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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Jul 16, 2019

Update on Siva Ashram

Last week I got back from Costa Rica after having spent 9 days there working on the next phase of the development of our Siva Ashram project. The trip that we make this time of the year is primarily focused on planting trees as part of creating our botanical garden. I was very blessed to have my dear friend, Nick Bloor, join me from Australia. We spent the first couple of days of the trip purchas...

May 15, 2019 Insights on Life

Children and Willpower

It’s easier to observe how much inborn willpower there is in a person when they are a child versus an adult. Think about the children that you know, you can tell right away that each child has a different amount of natural willpower. If you are a parent, you may have experienced
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Apr 23, 2019 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

Desire, Effort and Concentration

Ultimately, it all comes down to how badly you desire to live a concentrated life. Most people don’t desire it badly enough and hence never reach a state of concentration where they can manifest the life that they want. They can concentrate for brief periods of time but the level
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Mar 5, 2019 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

Concentration leads to Peace

It is so important that we strive to understand each other, because out of understanding is born empathy and out of empathy is born compassion, out of compassion is born love and finally out of love comes peace. To summarize the sequence: concentration, listening, reflection, und
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Feb 26, 2019 Spiritual Tools

Developing Willpower

Look at your life and look for opportunities to develop your willpower. Make this one of your life’s goals with a clear reason why you are developing willpower. To simply develop willpower is not enough. We need to understand why we are doing so and ultimately what will we use th
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Dec 20, 2018 Awareness & the Mind

Awareness and Reactions

As events occur in life, most people react to them in an uncontrolled way. When this happens awareness gets drawn out and externalized. Their energies get externalized too, entangling itself with people and things around them. Before long they find themselves bound to the externa
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Oct 8, 2018 Insights on Life

Investing Energy

Whatever I invest my energy in will start to grow. If I invest my energy in something positive it will grow and become more positive. If I invest my energy into something negative it will grow and become more negative. Energy has no ability to discriminate between what is positiv
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