ABOUT
Navnit Bhalla has spent his life paying attention —to the world, and to the mind.
The outward journey
The world came first. Over many years I traveled to more than 155 countries, and I learned to watch — people and their lands, how cultures breathe or go silent, how a place shapes a life. It was never about collecting experiences. It was a long, quiet education in really looking.
over the Australian outback
The inward journey
The same watching, now turned inward. Years of sitting on the cushion in Goenka Ji's lineage taught me to observe what rises and passes away. And then, one early morning under the Bodhi Tree, leaves drifted into my lap. I kept them. They hang above my altar still — a quiet reminder of what grows, and what we are separated from.
the home altar
The teaching
The ancient teachings only live if they are passed on. So began years of quiet time at home with the grandchildren. As their Dadaji, I explained the theory and the practice a small step at a time, amid their constant questions. Then one day one of them said, "The Dhamma teachings have reduced the haze from my moral compass." — words that settled into my heart with warmth. Out of those mornings came a gift: The Daily Dhamma.
the home Dhamma hall
The writing
Both books grew out of the same practice — a path of sitting, and of noticing. Full Distance Press is the home for that work: each book, in its own way, offers a hint toward the law of nature. The name, Full Distance, comes from a teaching of Bhikkhu Bodhi — that one should travel the full distance to know the whole of the path, or, as Goenka Ji puts it, "the entire field." That is the heart of the work: something to stay with, and to live with over time, like a quiet companion, as it is.