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Tag: Spiritual Path

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
Join me on a profound journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth.

Jun 26, 2017

How To View Negative Traits In Yourself

In looking to change our own negative traits, we should seek to understand them first: How did it come about? What caused it? How many lives did it take to create? Remember the trait was a product of decades or centuries of repeating a behavioral pattern and to expect to change it overnight or in the next five years is unreasonable. We must take a slow approach. It will take time, but understandin...

Jun 19, 2017
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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
Jun 14, 2017
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How do you view atheists?

How should someone on a spiritual path view an atheist? This talk shares a joyful outlook on atheism. “An atheist and an ex-monk walk into a bar…” and they have a great time. Atheists are people too. We don’t have to convert them and we don’t have to convince them of a God. Inste
Jun 5, 2017
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Hindu View of Reincarnation

In the Hindu belief, a soul lives in the physical body and when the physical body dies, the soul continues functioning in the astral plane before reincarnating. When a soul reincarnates, it goes through another physical life and keeps evolving, and another life and keeps evolving
Jan 31, 2017
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Can we choose our next birth?

Most people do not have mastery over their own energy and are perpetually creating through thoughts, words and actions some future that is beyond their control. More mature souls are conscious of what they are thinking, speaking and doing and put themselves on a clear path to cre
May 9, 2016
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What is my Spiritual Path?

One of the attendees at my Conversations on the Spiritual Path event last year asks the question "What is my Spiritual Path"? It's a question many people have and a topic many are unclear about. In this talk, I give suggestions on how to begin the process of exploring and discove
Mar 29, 2016

The Four Stages of Life

This talk is an excerpt of a 2-hour Conversations on the Spiritual Path talk held at Jane’s House of Wellbeing in St. Charles, Missouri. An attendee asks me to share some insights on the Hindu concept of the four stages of life. What are they, at what age do the different stages