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A historic event is coming up at the Interdependence Project on 4/7-4/8. Acharya Eric Spiegel will be offering both the Refuge Vow and the Bodhisattva Vows for the first time ever to...
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My new book, Your Emoticons Won't Save You, came out with a very limited release on my website as a print copy and as an ebook. We had very few advanced readers, so I'm just starting to...
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I was moved to read this story about Pancho Ramos Stierle, the meditator arrested at Occupy Oakland, who also faced the possibility of deportation after his arrest. This picture of him and a friend being...
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I wanted to share a fairly simple observation from teaching this week, related to the meditation practices that focus on the development of compassion, such as metta and tonglen. It's interesting that...
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A list of Steve Jobs' favorite books and most influential reads was just published on Huffington Post, and it includes Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Chogyam Trungpa...
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Amongst the ongoing fears of plague, peak oil, and drastic climate change which adorn our era (and at the timely tail end of a lingering cough and cold), I saw Steven Soderbergh's new movie Contagion...
I'll keep this short, because fewer words seem better today.
I practiced metta meditation with friends.
It didn't seem like a day to try to be funny.
It didn't seem like a day to be too serious, either.
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I saw Terrence Malick’s new movie, “The Tree of Life” this past weekend. It transported me to a truly unique style of cinematographic narrative, and felt like a true evocation of the way...
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I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a sane, awake, mature person in a society with at least some troubling conventional modes of behavior, which we accept as natural and...
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The Social Network is an amazing phenomenon, an amazing opportunity to see the truth of interdependence, that none of our lives occur in an isolated vacuum. Social...
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Some people seem to just be grumpy, angry, mean ole crankypants. Some people who meditate on compassion also seem to be in a consistently bad mood. Even some Buddhist teachers just seem to have dour...
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Wow. The main story of fear and vengeance of the last decade ended in another violent death today. I have not much more to add to what Susan Piver said, but here are some quotes to mark the day.
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Ponlop Rinpoche told me, via twitter to enjoy my "iPad Dharma." He uses an iPad when he teaches. The Karmapa is in an iPad ad. Welcome to the 21st century.
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From the counterintuitive-to-Buddhist-psychology-department, according to Gothamist, and a new study from University of Warwick, certain happy states carry with them a higher rate of suicide.
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After the Earth Day Party this weekend, IDP co-hosted the great Vajrayana teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at the Tibet House in New York City.
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Did you know that an ancient meditation teaching says that in order to get enlightened, you have to get enough sleep? It's true.
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May all beings be free from oppression, both internal and external.
Happy Passover everyone! Pesach actually begins at sundown. Though I am not technically Jewish (thanks a lot dad for procreating with a...
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As you may know, the Huffington Post was recently sold by Arianna Huffington and other owners for $315 million to AOL. Huffington herself, a minority partner, is apparently making somewhere between $14 and $...
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Spring is here and there's no better time to take your meditation practice from passive to active, from atrophied to on fire!
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The budget battle in America has been interesting. My main interest - as a student of consciousness - is in the view of human nature on display in any argument, the ethical beliefs that lie underneath any...
