Perhaps some destinies, if not all, precede existence. Perhaps some dreams are so vast because, in truth, they are echoes of deeds already lived in another fold of time—memories that shimmer in the distance and beckon from the distant future. Jules Verne, master of unimaginable journeys, enchanted the young Luiz Fernando Brandão with worlds woven …
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Posted: April 29, 2025 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
Next stop: Lisbon
There are places that preserve memories like those who tend a flower garden. Such is the case of the Grémio Literário, in the heart of Lisbon, whose walls are impregnated with the words of Eça de Queiroz, Teixeira de Queiroz, Júlio de Castilho, and so many other timeless names who once animated its afternoons and …
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Posted: April 8, 2025 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
The slow alchemy of the journey
1975. Rio glows between poetry and concrete, caught between the muffled hum of dictatorship and the rebellious spark of counterculture, while Bombay simmers beneath a sky of a thousand suns, where packed trains glide like silver serpents. Unaware of what’s to come, young Luiz Fernando splits his days between Yoga and the demands of adulthood—until …
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Posted: March 31, 2025 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
Memories from a distant future
Perhaps some destinies, if not all, precede existence. Perhaps some dreams are so vast because, in truth, they are echoes of deeds already lived in another fold of time—memories that shimmer in the distance and beckon from the distant future. Jules Verne, master of unimaginable journeys, enchanted the young Luiz Fernando Brandão with worlds woven …
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Posted: March 11, 2025 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
A revised edition of TRIPTIK will be available soon, with a special foreword by Professor Orlando Cani.
TRIPTIK, a Journey in the Land of the Gurus and Yonder returns at last to its very origins, in the blessed hands of dear Maa Hansa Ji. May she and her precious team of sadhakas harvest the best fruits from the wonderful work they have been doing on behalf of modern Yoga and The Yoga …
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Posted: November 29, 2019 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
What really matters (all considered) is here and now.
[…] The concept of karma is much more complex than has been popularized in the West. According to the Hindu scriptures, our present and future circumstances are the combined result of three types of cause and effect—samcitta, prarabdha, and kriyamana. The first relates to the karma accumulated in all past lives, which defines our character …
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Posted: November 25, 2019 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
On the magic of reading…
“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book all that’s of any use to me, and I can’t …
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Posted: November 23, 2019 by Luiz Fernando Brandão
Why tell this story 40 years after?
(…) And so it is only now, when I play the third and penultimate period of a game in whose final phase I am unable to guarantee my presence, that I think the time has come to share it. I say this because I believe in the ancient writings of Indian Ayurveda medicine, which state …
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Posted: October 18, 2019 by asiadmin
Welcome to my Blog
My name is Luiz Fernando Brandão, author of Triptik. I appreciate your visit. This book is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you. I’ll be using this space to talk with you about Triptik. Expanding on some of its topics and discussing some of its ideas. By …