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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Nov 10, 2015

Meditating, starting a business, falling in love and other how-tos

It's been six whole months since I have blogged. That was the longest hiatus I have taken since I started blogging shortly after leaving the monastery 7 years ago. In that time lots have happened. One of the biggest developments is that I have a brand new website. You're looking at it if you are on my site now. My first blog post after my long absence is to share with you an event that I recently ...

Aug 23, 2015
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Adelaide's progressive accounting company turns inward

Adelaide, South Australia. On August 24th this year I was invited to Adelaide by Altitude Advisory to conduct a full day workshop to its team and clients. Altitude Advisory is an accounting firm based in South Australia's capital that provide consultation on profitability, cashfl
Aug 17, 2015
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A Retreat for Entrepreneurs

I conduct workshops and retreats regularly for a range of people, organizations and companies around the world but I have to say that I love working with EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization) forum groups. EO Forums consists of 7 to 10 entrepreneurs that meet monthly to offer one anot
Jun 21, 2015
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Shaping the land of our Spiritual Sanctuary

Nosara, Costa Rica. It's been over 6 months since our last visit here and we arrived in Nosara late afternoon after a long drive from our search for plants in the towns of Alajuela and Arenal. We have a lot planned for the next week. Day 1 and 2 will be spent marking out where t
Jun 13, 2015
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The search for exotic plants

Alajuela & Arenal, Costa Rica. It's that time of the year again when we head down to Costa Rica to work on the development of our spiritual sanctuary. Since it is the beginning of the rainy season our focus at this time of the year is always planting. Our vision is to one day hav
Apr 20, 2015
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The Art of Balancing Life with EO Los Angeles

Last week I had the great pleasure of conducting a half day workshop with Los Angeles chapter of the Entrepreneur's Organization (EO). The event was held at the beautiful Mountain Mermaid Inn in the hills of Topanga north of Los Angeles. The setting was simply perfect for an even
Feb 8, 2015
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The Grand Finale of our epic Spiritual Adventure

Day 10, 8th February 2015. Final post of January North Indian Spiritual Adventure. It is the last night of our spiritual adventure and the final post on this blog recapping the ten amazing days across North India with 27 bright souls. I conducted our final class in the morning i