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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Jun 19, 2017

How do you teach children to concentrate?

The best way to teach children how to concentrate is for you to learn concentration and practice it yourself. Concentration is the ability for you to keep your awareness on one thing for an extended period of time. Parents struggle to teach concentration because they are not concentrated themselves. Children learn through examples -- they watch you do something and they do it. If you learn and pra...

Jun 18, 2017 Insights on Life

The Power of Thought

Everything begins in the mental plane first before it manifests in the physical plane. You think to yourself first, “I would like some ice cream,” then you get up and get yourself some ice cream. But it began in your mind with a thought. Each thought has a picture, sound and colo
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Jun 14, 2017 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

How do you view atheists?

How should someone on a spiritual path view an atheist? This talk shares a joyful outlook on atheism. “An atheist and an ex-monk walk into a bar…” and they have a great time. Atheists are people too. We don’t have to convert them and we don’t have to convince them of a God. Inste
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Jun 13, 2017 Meditation

Meditation is a Scart

Meditation is a Scart. Scart is a word I coined to refer to something that is a science and an art, hence ScArt. Meditation is a combination of science and art. A science, because it requires a systematic goal-orientated approach based on a solid understanding of the process. And
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Jun 5, 2017 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

Hindu View of Reincarnation

In the Hindu belief, a soul lives in the physical body and when the physical body dies, the soul continues functioning in the astral plane before reincarnating. When a soul reincarnates, it goes through another physical life and keeps evolving, and another life and keeps evolving
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Jun 1, 2017 Meditation

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 was coming to your home for dinner you would prepare for this, would you not? Yo
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Jan 31, 2017 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

Can we choose our next birth?

Most people do not have mastery over their own energy and are perpetually creating through thoughts, words and actions some future that is beyond their control. More mature souls are conscious of what they are thinking, speaking and doing and put themselves on a clear path to cre
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