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In January 2005, Nipun Mehta and his wife, Guri, anteed-up. They left everything to head on an open-ended, unscripted walking pilgrimage across India to "use our hands to do random acts of kindness, use our heads to profile inspiring people, and use our hearts to cultivate truth." More about Nipun Mehta>>
Some highlights from this talk:
"I really am rooted in impermanence, and I'd like to be even more so, in the deeper layers of my mind, to be rooted in impermanence. And that's really a practice for me. I think a lot of times we tend to find security in permanent things. Oh I've got this; I have this; I can hold on to this. And that tends to be our security and our comfort zone. And over the years I've realized that you can't really hold on to anything. Everything is just going to change, and it's constantly changing. So if you're really going to be a happy person, you need to be rooted in constant change. You need to be okay with things transitioning from one form to another."
"I think that so many times younger people are talked down to; they're talked at rather than talked with. And I think that is sort of the biggest strategic mistake... I actually do see them as me, that is my view. And bowing down to them is no problem, it's not like an exceptional thing that I do. I would do it anytime. I really have that view and I found that works really well—to see them as equals, to see them as co-creators of a shared life that we are doing. And that is true at a deep spiritual level. We are all co-creating."
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