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2 Years Later: Reflections on Vipassana Meditation

Reading, writing, music, photography, and any other forms of entertainment were forbidden during the ten-day silent meditation retreat i attended in 2010 in Chennai, India. Two years later, I’m finally ready to share more details about the experience. day 1. … Continue reading

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quick update

first thing’s first: he’s out of prison. whew. secondly, i wanted to share this photo from india with you. i spent a lot of time at the ganesh temple in pondicherry in the state of tamil nadu. i even got … Continue reading

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photo catch-up from india

  i had an amazing adventure in south india, beginning with spending two months in mysore.  then i traveled to pondicherry, mamalapuram, and chennai, all in the southeast state of tamil nadu.  from there i crossed back over by night … Continue reading

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vipassana meditation

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mysore the beautiful

for some reason i was thinking that i couldn’t blog just because i don’t have a camera right now.  but that’s just an excuse! let me say that india is beautiful.  i was thinking today about how my perception of … Continue reading

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