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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Samsara and Nirvana are inseperable!

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Speaking Tree Sunday Paper (ToI)23.01.2011 A fter wandering several months, a young man reached the cave where a monk resided. Offering resp...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Speaking Tree Newspaper, 5th Dec 2010

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FOR FULL TEXT OF THIS ARTICLE PLEASE READ "INTOXICATION AND THE MIND" POSTED ON JUNE 2, 2010 ON THIS BLOG.
Monday, November 29, 2010

FOCUSSING ONLY ON THE PROCESS

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Much has been read and heard of the cricketing heroics and abundance of records set by the Little Master Tendulkar over the two decades of h...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

EMOTIONS & THOUGHTS IN MEDITATION

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Shenpa is emotion. Every emotion is a form of suffering, but we do not see that. Instead, we get hooked by shenpa. Subtle forms of shenpa ar...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Mirror Mirror of the Heart and Mind...

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...Tell me whatever did you find! ( Speaking Tree, 5th Oct 2010) HOLDING A MIRROR TO ONESELF Almost all of us reading this newspaper invaria...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

IDLE WORSHIP!

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Rituals without Education: When I was a young boy growing up in Pune in the 70’s, things were naturally different. Model Colony, which today...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Why Nature Refreshes Best!

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'Life 365' newspaper, Pune, 20th May 2012 There are a number of ways in which urban dwellers try and soothe their frayed nerves to...
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Pune born & bred. BE, MBA, GDMM. Opted for alternate career after multi-national jobs sucked for 12 years! Dint play by the 'worldly' rule book of life & living. Still don't quite do that. Avidly trekked the Indo-Tibetan Himalayas. Lived with and trained under Tibetan monks and Masters for months on end. Ran a premium destination tour company, Moving Clouds, for 6years. Wife and two grown up kids. All of us at peace with life. Presently dedicate time to Tibetan Buddhist study, practice and teaching. Write for ToI's Speaking Tree. Active in issues pertaining to Local Governance in Pune. Convenor of G.O.O.D a group in Pune that outreaches Buddha's teachings thru Tibetan Buddhist Masters under the Mind Transformation Series. An ordained Ngakpa of the Palyul school of the Nyingmapa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism since March 2016. Also, faculty and resource person at Padma Mani Translation Committee, Namdroling Monastery (Golden Temple- Coorg), S.India, since 2015.
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