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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Feb 21, 2016

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 Maui. On the Big Island I stayed at this quaint boutique hotel that overlooked a gorgeous waterfall with a trail that led down to t...

Feb 17, 2016
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Directing Desire

One never really gets to the point in their life where all desire goes away. As my guru says "desire is life". I often hear older people say I don't have desires any more. I beg to defer. You do have desires. You just no longer desire what you use to desire. You have new desires.
Feb 15, 2016
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How to view Problems

There are two ways to view problems. You can view it from the intellect or view it from the superconscious. The intellect views "problems" as problems. The superconscious views "problems" as repeated subconscious patterns that need to be adjusted. The intellect solves problems
Feb 14, 2016
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Advice from a 126-year old Monk

Swami Bua was a dear friend of mine. I was first introduced to him when I lived as a monk at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. My guru had known Swami Bua for years now and had invited him to spend a week or so with us at the monastery to celebrate a yearly festival. Swami Bua a
Feb 10, 2016
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DC entrepreneurs Learn Unwavering Focus

It was my first ever visit to Washington DC and I loved my brief 24 hours in the country's capital. One of my hosts was gracious enough to spend the afternoon showing me around some of the memorials. My favorite and the one I had been wanting to see for a while was the Lincoln Me
Feb 8, 2016
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Awareness – The Story of your Journey in the Mind

Do you know that you are pure awareness traveling through the mind? Do you know that you are not the mind? Imagine for a while that you are awareness and imagine this awareness as a ball of pure white light. Now imagine you are this ball, pure awareness, flowing through the mind.
Feb 6, 2016
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Awareness the Dog

Your awareness is like a little puppy. If you let it do what it wants and let it run around where it likes then when it grows up it will be uncontrollable. But if you train it right from the start, catch and stop it overtime it strays, then when it grows up it will be like an ob