The Blog — 1042 posts since 2008

Timeless wisdom for a focused life.

Teachings on awareness, energy, and purpose — alongside the retreats, talks, and travels that fill the rest of the journey. Drawn from ten years as a Hindu monk and decades of teaching, written to be applied to your life today.

Spiritual AdventuresFeb 3, 20121 min

Our spiritual adventure begins

Our spiritual adventure began on January 27th but we've been without internet for 9 days now so have not been able to blog about the amazing journey we've been having. We'll start to cover it in…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 24, 20121 min

200 Likes and off to India!

Our blog received its 200th "Like"s today as I make my way to India to begin our spiritual adventure this Friday. Thank you everyone for all the Likes. If you haven't Liked it yet please do so.

NewsJan 24, 20121 min

Watching Water - the insight on surfing

I wanted to share with you a movie I watched recently called "Watching Water". It was filmed and edited by my dear friend Jo Tyrrell. Jo, originally from South Africa, is a film maker, photographer…

NewsJan 23, 20121 min

A Hiatus from Blogging

We've been doing some work on our blog to improve it over the last couple of weeks and hence I have not been blogging. But I'll resume blogging now that I am on the road again and our next spiritual…

Photography & TravelJan 12, 20121 min

Kitchen of Compassion

The Golden Temple in Amritsar is one of my favorite places for so many reasons. One major reason is that they selflessly feed tens of thousands of people every day. What an act of compassion and…

LearnJan 11, 20121 min

How do I concentrate better?

Today's question on meditation comes in from Louise from the Philippines who asks "How do I concentrate better - I manage a good quality 5 mins at most with minor drifting but then my mind wonders…

Photography & TravelJan 10, 20121 min

Namaste India

As we get ready for our two upcoming spiritual adventures at the end of January and February to India we share with you this inspiring video we came across on Vimeo. It's titled Namaste India from…

Photography & TravelJan 9, 20121 min

Fantastic video and sounds from Bhutan

This is a remix of sights and sounds recorded around Bhutan. It is a creation of an artist that goes by the name of Pogo. The video is called Kadinchey which in Bhutanese means "Thank you".

LearnJan 9, 20121 min

How do you know a meditation technique is good or not?

On the 7th of January I was asked "what are the techniques of meditation" and responded to that on the blog. The natural next question to follow from that was asked...which was "How do you know a…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 7, 20121 min

An island's majestic temple

One evening, on our upcoming Festivals & Temples spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia, we'll board an overnight train and make the long journey south east to the coast and cross the Indira…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 6, 20121 min

A Spiritual Adventure to South India

Our festivals and temples tour of South India and Malaysia begins on Jan 27th and there is still space for those wishing to join the journey.

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