Tag: meditation
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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? You would clean you...
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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,…
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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...
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Yoga & Meditation Retreat in North India, March 2015
Join me on a transformative yoga and meditation retreat in North India next March 2015. This spiritual adventure will focus on learning the foundations of both yoga and meditation while exploring one of the most exquisite the parts of the world where these practices began. This will be a life-cha...
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Bringing Life to Meditation
Recently in privately training someone how to meditate I spent the first 3 days not even talking about meditation. There is a lot to learn before one even begins to sit down to meditate. Everybody is in a rush these days. Even in a rush to learn to meditate. They know what they want which…
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Unmistakable Creative: An Interview about an Ex-Monk’s Spiritual Path
Srinivas Rao is the creative engine driving the popular podcast, Unmistakable Creative. There are over 400 interviews available directly through their archives and also through iTunes, with speakers from all walks of life including “happiness researchers,” psychologists and authors, ...
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Our Finale Dinner in South India
Here’s the final series of photos from our South Indian spiritual adventure, wrapping up our coverage of that amazing journey with 17 wonderful souls. On the last night of our meditation and yoga retreat in South India we had a special farewell dinner on the banks of Lake Vembanad, India...
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How you dress is how you feel
“How you dress is how you feel”. We took this very seriously on the last night of our spiritual adventure. The last night is always special as in the tradition of doing these trips and everyone gets dressed up to the best that they can. Since we were in South India the ladies took the...
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