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Spiritual Practice Is Not About Happiness
In my experience it is a mistake to equate one’s spiritual path with the pursuit of happiness, as it were. Climbing the mountain of spirit is about becoming increasingly conscious rather than resting...
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Practical Buddhist Tips for Kate Moss and Other Newbies
Over at One City, Julia May Jonas offers Buddhism’s newest celebrity convert (as well as other newbies) some great advice. Kate Moss, I think this could be a good fit. And to welcome you into the...
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Skeletons in the Buddhist Closet
Lama Osel Hita Torres After yesterday’s post about Lama Osel Hita Torres leaving his leadership role in Tibetan Buddhism as well as his order, a reader wrote: We need more news like this. Westerners,...
View ArticleStillness In the Face of a Child's Tantrum
I recently received this in a wonderful letter from one of our virtual sangha members in Germany. It’s a beautiful reminder of how this practice can have profound effects on our families: Kids develop...
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Muslims Throwing Light Upon Themselves
Over at the Intent.com, Deepak Chopra offers some analysis of Obama’s speech in Cairo: …it was a cobweb-clearing speech. The content wasn’t exceptional. Before Muslims assumed the role of bogeyman...
View ArticleShould I Leave My Teacher?
I thought I’d share this exchange I just had with a reader: Michael, for some reason, issues of guru abuse are coming at me from every direction. I just had a good friend call me asking to talk – she...
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Build a Bigger Brain
Bodhipaksa, over at Wildmind has just posted this fascinating article: People who meditate have bigger brains than those who don’t, say researchers at UCLA. Using high-resolution magnetic resonance...
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A Buddhist’s Guide to Twitter
Rachel Hiles comments on her twitter reluctance over at Tricycle in a post called A Buddhist’s Guide to Twitter. As someone slow to embrace the Twitter phenomenon, I’ve approached the site with great...
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Norman Fischer writes for the NYT's Happy Days Blog
Last week’s NYTimes.com posted a nice piece by Norman Fischer: As most people know, a Zen meditation retreat is not a vacation. Despite the silence and the beauty, despite the respite from the...
View ArticleAn Excerpt from an Interview with Adyashanti
I have a lot of respect for Adyashanti and his approach to teaching. He’s genuine, honest, and has the capacity to creatively turn up the heat on his students. Here’s an excerpt from an interview that...
View ArticleA little bit on kensho…
Over at digitalZENDO, there is an great piece on discussing the elusive experience of insight that Zennists call kensho: Avoiding talking about Kensho, does not make use virtuous or spiritual. Maybe...
View ArticleQ & A: When the Fire of Awakening Burns…
Gotta’ love when the earthquake of Awakening rattles and rolls everything we’ve ever known to be true… Question(s): As I sit, all that comes within my attention, or where I choose to turn my attention,...
View ArticleQ & A: Meditation Techniques
Question: I’ve got a nuts-and-bolts question about meditation. There are so many varieties: following the breath, paying attention to whatever arises, focusing on something particular (like a...
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Attachment Alert: Clinging to Religion
Blogger, Matthew Yglesias suggests: The map lumps the plains states in with the church belt, but if you look at the data more specifically you’ll see that nine of the ten churchiest states are in the...
View Article4 Steps for Managing the Attention Paid to Social Media
Soren Gordhamer, organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, writes that we need to 1.) know that our external reflects our internal, 2.) do one thing at a time, 3.) invite instead of force, and 4.) know...
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Free Will, or Free Won't: Choice Is Still Interdependent
As much as I enjoy philosophical discourse, the whole “Free Will” things get’s old. This, in my view, is because the arguments as to whether or not we have it tend to miss the most fundamental aspect...
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The Moral Naturalists Observe Moral Animals
I’m always appreciative of empirical explorations of the things I yammer on about from the cushion. I also like that for any of Brooks’ perceived failings he’s intellectually curious; something...
View ArticleIntegral Theory Conference – 2010
Enjoying a pre-conference conference on the Three Faces of Spirit, being led by Diane “Musho” Hamilton and Dr. Marc Gafni. While the subject matter is interesting and its being skillfully delivered,...
View ArticleThe Summoned Self
Could it be that the MSM is verging on a discussion involving higher order self-hood? Is fully responding to life starting to creep into our dialog? While this column doesn’t necessarily do this, we...
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Terry Patten's Evolutionary Activism: A Bodhidharma Strategy | The Integral...
Terry Patton hits the topic of enlightened activism on several different levels in his most recent blog post. One of the problems with conventional political activism is that it can be so painfully...
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