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Tag: Meditation retreat in India

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Jan 9, 2012

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 to meditation. How would you know anyway if you've never tried it out long enough. Hopefully this can help shed some lig...

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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Jan 7, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

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 Gandhi bridge to the laid back fishing island of Rameswaram. Located only a fe
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Jan 6, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

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. Here's a video that was put together on a previous trip to South India. It shows us arriving at the Chennai airport then off south to the
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Jan 4, 2012 Speaking

What is the purpose of meditation?

Somebody asked me in a class recently a question that I have never been asked before. The question was “What is the purpose of meditation?” Strange, I thought at that very instant I heard the question, that it was a very obvious question but no one seems to ask it. Unless of cour
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Dec 22, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Avial

A classic preparation from Kerala, Avial is a light, easy-to-make dish of vegetables cooked with coconut and yogurt. It goes particularly well with Pallapam. Preparation should take no more than 15 minutes, even faster if you use the microwave. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups choppe
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Dec 18, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Palappam

South Indian cooks make breads from lots of different ingredients more or less unknown in the west. This unusual and delicious bread from Kerala uses a fermented batter of rice flour and coconut milk. This is called Palappam, although often you just hear it referred to as appam
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