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Mar 7, 2012

Farewell Dinner on our Culinary Adventure

After two nights in Kanadukathan in the heart of the Chettinad district in Tamil Nadu, we headed west to Madurai, ancient Tamil capital of the south for the last night of our culinary and spiritual adventure. The beautiful Heritage Madurai resort was home for the last night and finale dinner. As is tradition on our trips, everyone gets dressed up for the last night. A sumptuous traditional Tamil ...

Feb 25, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

Learning Chettinad Cooking

Our spiritual and culinary adventure is coming to a conclusion and today we had our last cooking class. It was on two Chettinad style dishes. The first was "Mint Chutney" and the second "Kola Urundai Kolambu". Here's the recipe for the "Mint Chutney" that we learned today. Ingr
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Feb 24, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

Thanjavur's great temple

This morning on the way to the heart of the Chetinad region we stopped in Thanjavur to visit the temple built by the great south Indian king Raja Raja Chola. The temple's name is Brihadeeswarar and is an architectural marvel. The 216 feet (66m) tower with its monolithic 80 ton do
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Jan 24, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

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. Participants on the adventure have already begun their journey making their way from
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Jan 11, 2012 Meditation

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 massively after this...?" The best way to learn how to concentrate better is to pr
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Jan 9, 2012 Meditation

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 meditation technique is good or not?" It's hard to know this answer if you are new
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Jan 7, 2012 Meditation

What are the techniques of meditation?

I received a question on email from Rupa in DC who asked "What are the techniques of meditation?" There are many meditation techniques around. You should pick one that you resonate and feel comfortable with. Different techniques work for different people. Stick to it once you've
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