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The Key to Self-Mastery
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 external world and inner life seems non-existent. They live in a perpetual state of reaction going from one experience to another with very little control over their lives. Most people aren’t even aware of this. It becomes, unfortunately, a very natural flow to them even though every thing about it is unnatural to the soul.
To slow down, live in the moment, be mindful or any of these many concepts that the wellness and new age communities throw around, most without proper understanding or instruction on how to do it, one must first gain a solid and clear understanding of awareness and the mind. This is the key to your freedom. This is the key to self-mastery.
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Meditation requires Effort
Effort is not something a lot of people associate the process of meditation with. Meditation is often mistakenly believed to be synonymous with relaxation, letting go, just being, observing and all those not very well understood concepts. True meditation requires tremendous effort. It is a displa...
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The Four Stages of Life
This talk is an excerpt of a 2-hour Conversations on the Spiritual Path talk held at Jane’s House of Wellbeing in St. Charles, Missouri. An attendee asks me to share some insights on the Hindu concept of the four stages of life. What are they, at what age do the different stages begin, etc. Talk&...
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Understanding a Person’s Mind
Understanding people’s nature and being aware of it when dealing with them is vital for a peaceful and positive outcome. Know your mind in order to know their mind. Know your nature in order to know their nature. You must know you first. For there is no difference between you and them. There is b...
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Unwavering Focus – a TEDxReno talk
On October 2nd last year I was honored to be invited to speak and to give the opening talk at TEDx Reno. The abandoned Lear Theater in Reno had been transformed on the inside to host the talks. I titled my opening keynote “Unwavering Focus”. A special thank you to my friend Rolf Schro...
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Drilling for Water at Siva Ashram
We’ve spent the last 9 days in Nosara, Costa Rica, where our spiritual sanctuary Siva Ashram is located. My wife and I make about 2 to 3 trips down to Nosara a year and on each trip we work on developing the land we’ve acquired a little further in efforts to manifest the vision that&h...
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Taking a Different Perspective
Many of you know I love photography and from time to time blog about some of the photos that I’ve taken. I had the privilege of going to Honolulu, Hawaii to speak at an event last week. So I took the opportunity to go a few days early and visit the Big Island and also…
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