I love meditation, philosophy, psychology and observing my mind moment to moment. So far I have explored advaita/yoga and some schools in Buddhism, having attended a few retreats and in particular a month in a monastery in Taiwan. My work involves doing research in Machine Learning (sort of close to Artificial Intelligence) and Natural Language Processing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To find and meet like-minded individuals to share this journey of life.

Interests

• yoga
• meditation
• computer science
• buddhism
• machine learning
• philosphy
• nlp
• advaita

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Chants in all sorts of languages. Also western classical music.
Movies: Amongst White Clouds, The Man from Earth
Books: The Mind Illuminated, Tao and Longevity, Autobiography of a Yogi, Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent one month in a buddhist monastery in Taiwan (Fo Guan Shan), living in the lifestyle of a monk. The program included a silent meditation week.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always eager to talk with other cultivators. In Buddhism it's said all 84,000 dharmas return to the One. I consider it to be all about the cultivation of the mind and all practitioners regardless of sect, religion or lack thereof to be my brothers on the path if they cultivate their mind (and even those who don't haha)

I'm also quite interested in Machine Learning and AI & would love to discuss on those terms.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can teach/discuss meditation, eastern philosophies, western philosophy, and some yoga postures. Also a smile :)

I don't particularly like small talk, let's dig deep and dig wide!

Countries I’ve Visited

Malaysia, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Singapore