My name is Swacchanda. I spent ten years watching how people learn, get stuck, and break through. Then I hit my own wall. I realised I knew how to teach, but not how to live. Not fully.
So I became a student of something harder: life itself. What to keep and what to let go. When to push through and when to surrender. How to hold the paradoxes without being torn apart. How to stop making everything so difficult.
I found answers. Not perfect ones — but real ones. And along the way, I sat with hundreds of people through their own messy middles. What I noticed is that the patterns keeping us stuck are remarkably similar. And once you can see them clearly, they lose their grip.
I don't believe in one-size-fits-all answers. I believe in the right question at the right moment.
Amateur Buddha is not a blog. It is a space designed to meet you exactly where you are — and help you move to where you want to be. Through honest reflection, practical tools, and resources shaped around your specific journey.
If something here lands for you, that's a beginning.
If you want to know where you are right now — and what it will take to get you where you want to go — start with the free questionnaire.
If you'd like to go deeper with me directly, I'd love to hear from you.
Amateur Buddha is a movement in the making.
It started with one fellow traveller.
One day, it will be many.