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Saturday, August 25, 2012

PATIENCE- Antidote to Anger

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Speaking Tree, TOI, 23.09.2012 PRACTICE OF PATIENCE – One of the Six Perfections in Buddhist Teachings. One of my students, a young g...
Monday, July 30, 2012

RAKSHA BANDHAN - Reflecting on Protection

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SPEAKING TREE, TOI, 05.08.2012 A young boy of a middle class family, all of 5yrs, is sitting on a chair in the drawing room of his pare...
Monday, July 16, 2012

WHAT ABOUT PURGINGS OF THE MIND?

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SPEAKING TREE, TOI, PICK OF THE WEEK! Recently i was watching a popular cinema star anchoring a show wherein the suffering and humiliati...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

AN INSULATED COOKER, A NON-STICK PAN AND NIRVANA!

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( The Speaking Tree, 17.06.2012, ToI) Just the other day i was invited to the launch of restaurant by an old B-School friend. The conce...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

RECOGNIZE THAT MOMENT!

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Speaking Tree, Sunday, 20.01.2013 A group of monks were going about their daily chores at the outskirts of Rajgir, where Siddhartha had ...

FOUR THOUGHTS: TURNING THE MIND INWARDS

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SAKAAL TIMES (ENGLISH), 29.07.2012 How often have we ever wondered if we had any specific advantages over other beings with a human bir...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

WHY kirana STORES WILL NOT AFFECT FDI? A Counter Point

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It sometimes amazes me how routine chores have the ability to bestow upon us profound insights to larger economic questions of international...
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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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