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Jul 2, 2017

Paths in the Mind

Here is something deeper for you to reflect upon. I’ll touch on it, but won’t get too deep into this for now. As awareness repeatedly goes to a particular area of the mind, it creates a groove or a path to that area of the mind. As it repeatedly travels back and forth to this destination - let’s call the destination anger - it creates a path in the mind, so to speak, to anger. If you have ever gon...

Jun 25, 2017 Meditation

Meditation is a Fine Art

Meditation is a fine art and we need to treat it that way. We need to treat it the same way we would treat learning any art form. If we wanted to learn the piano, we would not take a 12-week course hoping at the end of the 12 weeks that we would be able to play the piano like a m
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Jun 19, 2017 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

How do you teach children to concentrate?

The best way to teach children how to concentrate is for you to learn concentration and practice it yourself. Concentration is the ability for you to keep your awareness on one thing for an extended period of time. Parents struggle to teach concentration because they are not conc
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Jun 13, 2017 Meditation

Meditation is a Scart

Meditation is a Scart. Scart is a word I coined to refer to something that is a science and an art, hence ScArt. Meditation is a combination of science and art. A science, because it requires a systematic goal-orientated approach based on a solid understanding of the process. And
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Jun 1, 2017 Meditation

Preparation for Meditation

Your preparation for meditation is as important as your meditation practice, if not more so. The better you prepare, the better your meditation will be. Look at it this way, if someone very important was coming to your home for dinner you would prepare for this, would you not? Yo
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Apr 27, 2016 Meditation

The Journey of Awareness in Meditation

The mystic's goal is to control awareness in his mind. To separate awareness from that which he is aware of so he can consciously move it to any area of the mind that he wants it to go to. As he gains mastery over his awareness and a gains a better understanding of his mind, he
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Feb 8, 2015 Spiritual Adventures

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
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