To ‘be’ or To ‘do’
Recently a young guy I just met at the meditation center asked me, what do you do? I said I am traveling and trying to deepen my meditation practice. He asked why wasn’t I working and I replied that…
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An Unplanned trek to Everest Base Camp/Kalapattar/Chola Pass – The full story
“I am thinking of doing the Everest Base Camp trek.” Sitting in one of Pokhara’s beautiful café’s lining the lake, I voiced the thought that played on my mind from the time I landed in Nepal. Beth, one of my…
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Traveling within – A journey of memories
This last year has been difficult and interesting at the same time. Many of us are conditioned to believe that a ‘secure’ and ‘certain’ life is important to be happy. From early morning to late evening, we studied, worked, strived…
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Losing yourself or finding yourself….. either or both can happen when you Dive!
Sometimes the Soul that has been so deeply touched and transformed can’t go ‘back to normal’…and I wouldn’t want that anyway. A comment from someone on a blog best described what I hadn’t been able to so far. Diving wasn’t…
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‘Mist’erious Goecha La
Once upon a time, the small village of Yuksom faced a severe food crisis. People fought with each other as they struggled to cope. A Shepard realised something had to be done. He took his sheep and embarked on a…
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Discovering love that can break your heart!
The older I grow, the more I realise, everything in this world is relative. Our emotions, happiness, sadness…everything rooted in our experiences, and here’s one that changed mine. Couple of years ago, I had a message on my phone from…
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A day of typhoon, earthquake and chance meetings – Tokyo
Something didn’t feel right. My instinct was to check the time and it was around 3 am. Why did I wake up? It was then I noticed that everything was swaying, not shaking but swaying. Random thoughts fired in my…
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Uluru – Once upon a time
Uluru dates back to over 500 million years! Come to think of it, that’s almost 250 million years before dinosaurs were known to have existed. Its no wonder then that Uluru dream time stories talk of giant creatures that existed whose footprints formed massive craters on it’s rock.
The universe conspires…..Fiji
He kept driving for more than an hour on what seemed to be a winding road. It was quiet and dark outside. Occasionally I’d hear a dog bark in the distance. There was no one on the road and rarely…
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Spiti – A Sublime Beauty
Mai ni meriye, shimle di raahe, kaaza kitniki door….haaayee…..Kazaaaa kitniki door!!!! What happens when a group of local singers with soulful voices, guitar, old monk, talented chefs come together in a cozy mud house’s kitchen with heated tandoor…..…….and not just…
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