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Understanding a Person’s Mind

Understanding people’s nature and being aware of it when dealing with them is vital for a peaceful and positive outcome. Know your mind in order to know their mind. Know your nature in order to know their nature.

You must know you first. For there is no difference between you and them. There is but one mind.

Knowing where someone is in their mind bestows upon you the great blessing on how best to interact or not interact with them. Now you can decide if you want your awareness to flow to where they are in their mind or rather take their awareness and bring it to where you are in your mind.

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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
Mar 22, 2016
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Unwavering Focus - a TEDxReno talk

On October 2nd last year I was honored to be invited to speak and to give the opening talk at TEDx Reno. The abandoned Lear Theater in Reno had been transformed on the inside to host the talks. I titled my opening keynote "Unwavering Focus". A special thank you to my friend Rolf
Feb 29, 2016
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Drilling for Water at Siva Ashram

We've spent the last 9 days in Nosara, Costa Rica, where our spiritual sanctuary Siva Ashram is located. My wife and I make about 2 to 3 trips down to Nosara a year and on each trip we work on developing the land we've acquired a little further in efforts to manifest the vision t
Feb 21, 2016
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Taking a Different Perspective

Many of you know I love photography and from time to time blog about some of the photos that I've taken. I had the privilege of going to Honolulu, Hawaii to speak at an event last week. So I took the opportunity to go a few days early and visit the Big Island and also Maui. On th
Feb 17, 2016
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Directing Desire

One never really gets to the point in their life where all desire goes away. As my guru says "desire is life". I often hear older people say I don't have desires any more. I beg to defer. You do have desires. You just no longer desire what you use to desire. You have new desires.
Feb 15, 2016
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How to view Problems

There are two ways to view problems. You can view it from the intellect or view it from the superconscious. The intellect views "problems" as problems. The superconscious views "problems" as repeated subconscious patterns that need to be adjusted. The intellect solves problems