Mindfulness Essentials – Shunya Pragya

Breathe without baggage: Live in the moment

Shunya Pragya — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:55:31 +0000

Summary Mindfulness practices offer a powerful gateway to emotional well-being and inner peace. By helping us release past regrets and quiet future anxieties, mindfulness cultivates a happier, healthier, and more relaxed state of mind—without sacrificing focus or efficiency. Through simple yet transformative techniques like self-forgiveness, present-moment awareness, and gentle self-inquiry, we begin to shed […]

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Dreams: Hidden Portal of Awareness

Shunya Pragya — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 05:09:29 +0000

A dream is a creative sleep. Only creativity can bring transformation, free from any obsession. The human mind is a wonderland. In a way, it is magical in designing experiences; close your eyes, and you can create a beautiful garden, magnificent castle, or tasty food in your mind, and immediately you feel good. Also, you […]

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Emptiness (Śūnyatā) – Emptiness is a great understanding

Shunya Pragya — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:10:57 +0000

Emptiness (Śūnyatā) What is it: Whose existence is its annihilation? Whose knowing burns the knowledge? Who cannot be held, though, is always in your hands? Emptiness is its name. Prelude Emptiness is a great understanding and is most difficult as well. Its nature is non-dualistic and is fundamental for the duality to exist. It is […]

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Mindful Leadership

Shunya Pragya — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:33:18 +0000

Author – Shunya (Author’s Pen Name, a.k.a Rajesh Fandan) Leadership is for everyone Gently close your eyes and say in your mind a few times the word, “leader.” Notice what sort of images are flaring up. Most of us will see typical media images of popular leaders. It can be a political figure standing before […]

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A real meditator: Seer or Preacher?

Shunya Pragya — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:37:15 +0000

Pre-word: A real meditator is a continuously seeking soul and lives as a seer rather than a preacher. An inside-out view is preferred based on experiences rather than an outside-in view, based on borrowed knowledge. We all have an intrinsic curiosity to know about our roots, and their relation to the vast existential reality in […]

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Mindfulness- Unleashing Misconceptions and a simplified definition

Shunya Pragya — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:05:12 +0000

Pre-word: Awareness and acceptance of reality as-it-is, in the present moment. And, Let it go! Today, mindfulness is a common word appearing everywhere in offices, schools, meditation retreats, magazines, etc. There are several misconceptions surrounding mindfulness meditation. Few examples are: it is a religious practice, it is done for relaxation, it is difficult to […]

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Mindfulness Meditation Learning Map, Step by Step

Shunya Pragya — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 06:31:23 +0000

Mindfulness Meditation Learning Map —Step by Step Pre-word: This learning map is from my book: O Beloved: Being, Becoming and Beyond https://shunyapragya.com/books/ 1. Foundational Discipline— Knowing Basic self-inquiry and foundational learning Equanimity and Equipoise Models of mind and distraction management Understand the role of concentration vs. mindfulness Compose a mental torch— intention, attention, and awareness Choose […]

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