Prasanta Behera Blog

We (our startup) have sub-leased a small office in Palo Alto. On the wall, there was a picture. I asked one of my team members to  describe it  He told that it was a poem and he described in bits and pieces. It sounded very interesting and so, I searched for it. It is written by a 8th century Chinese poet Liu Zongyuan.   Beautiful poem! A thousand hills, but no birds in flight Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone, in the cold river snow. 

This is a journey. I am sharing what I went thru. After our 7 am Sunday tennis exercise stopped (because few team members started to have knee injury), I picked up biking. I did not have to depend upon anyone and could get the biking done before anyone in the family wakes up :-) I was doing bike rides in the weekend but mostly in the range of 10-12 miles (Cupertino Sunnyvale area). I started to enjoy biking. I was given an opportunity by my family to upgrade to a new and better bike as a gift  - thank you! I bought the bike in late 2014 and since then continue to do weekend biking but never went beyond the 10-12 mile range. It never occurred me why I am not pushing forward. Last year (2015), my mother passed away, here in my home. I went through the normal process of rituals and grieving. But I felt that there needs to be a one on one connection to reflect. I had left India ~30 years ago and have seen my parents once in few years. During those short visits, there is not much ti...

A trip to death Valley, CA this weekend.  Amazing place ... truly a spectacle of nature. The mountains, landscape, the sunset, the salt ponds and the flowers blossoming in the valley. The "Bad Water" point is the lowest point (-282 ft below Sea level) in USA.  Alabama Hills, Lone Pine - Lots of western movies were shot. Artist View (beautiful hills) - The hills looks like painting with different colors. It looks beautiful in the sunset. Natural Bridges, Death Valley Red Rock Canyon Where is Waldo? (I am somewhere in the hill)

I wrote a poem " Warrior of Light ", and the unexpected outcome was that I got a book " Shambhala - The Sacred Path of the Warrior " as a gift. Thanks you! (Kindness is an important part of warriorship). I started reading the book and during the process, I read wikipedia on Shambhala, watched a movie " The Warrior " which I accidentally found (Good movie with Irfan Khan - available in Netflix). I also tried the " Warrior Bowl " - a VitalityBowl shop in-front of my office (it was good!); it is part of the process. (Interesting findings .. it is fun) Just like any book, I find a third of book had good points/discussion/thoughts. Next one third is repetition of same ideas and sometimes forcing to certain concepts and last one third I am not clear  (felt random thoughts). I will share what I learnt from the book. Standard disclaimer applies; I do not claim an expertise or any form of wise observations. The Shambhala tradition starts f...