Catalog
Writings
Essays, practices and daily quotes from BeZenDo Substack, Anandda magazine and this site, newest first. 1988 pieces in all.
2026
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A Bonus Practice: Come Home with NASA
Part 3 brought NASA and HOME together. This bonus add stays with NASA alone: about nineteen quiet minutes through Now, Alert, Spacious, and Aware, with soft silence between each landing.
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Alone We Never Are: Returning to the Rhythm That Restores Us
I just published a new essay on Substack. In June 1985, on my first night in an Army barracks at Fort Dix, I felt completely alone. A few minutes later I noticed a book in the garbage can at the foot of my bunk. It was the Bhagavad Gita. The loneliness didn't vanish, but it softened. I knew I wasn't alone.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 3: A Sixteen Minute Guided Meditation
NASA and HOME together as one daily practice, with my voice to guide you.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 2: HOME, One Word for the Breath
I share HOME, the one word companion to NASA that came to me whole in meditation, where a silent OM rides the in breath and me rides the out breath.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 1: A Small Practice for Returning to Now
I share the four letter NASA practice I have used for years, Now Alert Spacious Aware, with a gentle finger to thumb touch and my voice guiding you home in under five minutes.
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The Green Juice That Arrived: A Man's Lesson in Trust, Presence, and Inner Balance
On a quiet Mumbai morning a green juice arrived at my table without my asking, and it taught me how trust, presence, and allowing can be a quieter kind of strength.
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You Are Already That for Which You Long
You are already that for which you long. Rupert Spira I come back to this line often, because so much of my own searching has been a reaching outward for a peace I thought I had. ·
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Practical Spirituality: Why I Never Get Jet Lag
Crossing continents, I stay free of jet lag by hydrating, resting when the body asks, seeking daylight, and refusing the story that suffering is inevitable.
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The Teacher Who Woke Me: When Everyone Becomes a Teacher
My Bengali tutor once expected me to understand a problem that afternoon, and in that Now he restored my self respect and showed me that capacity can be awakened.
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Living BeLucidNow: Practices to Engage and Transform Your Workday
I walk through the daily returns that keep me lucid at work: NASA in the morning, Zen in the meeting, and Do on the commute, so the day can feel like a perpetual sabbatical.
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Why Mindfulness Matters: Relevance, Benefits, and the Lucidity Edge
When leaders reclaim inner lucidity, giving multiplies rather than subtracts, and the corporate arena becomes a place of shared flourishing.
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Demystifying Mindfulness – The True Essence for Professionals
I return mindfulness to its somatic root, resting in the body so the aware space underneath can shine through as a perpetual sabbatical you can reclaim on demand.
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What is no-mind?
What is no-mind? And why have it? A mind that is always seeking, or always resisting, never actually meets this moment. It is busy becoming, fixing, getting away. Practical. ·
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The Art of Undoing the Past / Forgiveness as the Magician's Tool
Forgiveness, for me, is the magician tool that undoes the past living in consciousness so peace and gratitude can meet this day.
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Thinking is Injurious to Mental Health
I had this picture on the desk for a while. It was drawn to look like a cigarette, with the orange filter and a little smoke at the end, and a warning in letters that seemed to. ·
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Nothing Real Can Be Lost
A lost wallet between Mexico and Goa taught me that forms come and go while the aware presence we are cannot be lost.
2021
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Alone, we never are…
What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose… ·
2020
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Hey Corona! Namaste, Now!
Hey Corona! Namaste, Now! “The world-wide pandemic of fear (a.k.a. Coronovirus/Covid-19) has overtaken us all. Under these circumstances what should we do and how can we best. ·
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What’s The Nature of Thought?
All thinking, seeks to change ‘what is’ or desires ‘what’s not.’ NamasteNow.com think not, just be Most thinking is useless. The only kind that’s necessary is the kind where we’re. ·
2019
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YOU Are The Light Of The World!
Let not the world’s light, given unto you, be hidden from the world. a course in miracles the light We are the Light of the world. Let’s not be small and shirk from this. ·
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How To Find The Light…
For next to you is One who holds the light a course in miracles the one We’re convinced that we’re on our own. And that’s a colossal but rectifiable error. We’re not alone. We but. ·
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How To Dwell With God…
“You are of God” because “He who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” the Urantia Papers love Things are simpler than they seem. Love is always the answer to any. ·
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What is True Freedom?
Our freedom can be found in God alone. a course in miracles freedom? What is true freedom? In my opinion it is the expression of who we truly are without objection or hindrance. ·
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What Do I Really Seek?
I was created as the thing I seek. a course in miracles i seek We seek until we’re sick and tired. No matter what we seek and attain, it’s never satisfyingly enough. Why is that?. ·
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What’s The Best Profession or Business?
I have a special place to fill – a role for me alone. a course in miracles god’s business = awakening We do have a special vocation for which we were designed. And it’s not. ·