oh man my loves. this has not been an easy road for me this time. so many emotions. a body that just broke down and said "guess what? you're going to listen to me or i quit."
it's been great though.
because. it's been a steady stream of a...
Greeting love bugs. It's week two of Sharon's 28 Day Meditation Challenge, and this week we're getting into the body - Body scans, walking meditation and body sensation exercises.
I suppose I could plausibly say that I am one of the poster children for "Real Happiness." When Shambhala Sun wrote their featured piece last year on Sharon Salzberg's celebrated new book, my photo was right smack up there near the beginning...
"Some Westerners have misinterpreted the second-turning teachings on shunyata as nihilistic. If all things are empty, it is mistakenly thought, then nothing has any value and everything is finally meaningless. Why bother to be a decent...
I think that relationships are tricky. Lovely, certainly and vital, yes, but tricky. For most relationships have stories - stories of shared experience and expectation. This is normal and, frankly, human. The roles within which we are embedded -...
The Internet is a pretty magical place. Yes, there are problems - of addiction and procrastination, of distraction and dilly dallying. But. Within reason. It's a preeeettty magical place. And yesterday I was turned onto a new site that -...
Lojong - Abondon any hope of fruition.
For what are acheivements really? What and who from do we hope to distinguish ourselves by them?
Happy Thursday loves.
it is ceaselessly curious to myself that i am entangled within the academic world of political science and yet have done everything in my power to change its traditional contours of legitimate inquiry. notably i've been invested in religion,...
Perhaps the most touching blog I've been gifted in a long long time (Thank you JM). Please read the WHOLE THING. Trust me. I wouldn't lead you astray.
From the Brave Girls Club - "We Must See Past What It Seems":
For St. Augustine, habit is "that thing which we have once it is added to us." One way to think of this in more Buddhistese is a manufacturing of the solidity of the self (for Augustine, more like prideful self aggrandizement) through...
Abby and I got a new puppy. He's terribly cute. He's also like a 3 year old. Actually, a one year old - no real language comprehension, no potty training and I'm sure every moment is either terribly confusing or rapturously alive for...
Imma break it down for you. My body is tired and tight and I ran waaaaaay too much not to stretch while I was in Provincetown with my love. Unfortunately, I didn't stretch. Well, I didn't stretch sufficiently. Now I'm in pain, tight,...
"Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel that, again, it is compassion that can help you overcome these to move into a calm state of mind. Compassion is not being kind to your friend. That is attachment...
last week was my girl's 25th birthday. it was riotous fun at the neighborhood gay bar for karaoke night. abby completely outdid herself, and sang her face off. amazing. i completely outdid myself also and drank to wiiiin. and the next day,...
An interesting excerpt from Shambahla Sun (Wisdom 2.0) this month. Not sure wisdom (maybe understanding?) is precisely the right term, but good to know that the intelligence that it takes to do something and the intelligence...
From BOMB magazine. A conversation between Laurie Anderson and Marina Abramović in 2003.
MA ...When you were a child, did you have some experiences that you can’t explain rationally?
This last week I was the recipient of a group email debating the merits - or lack thereof - of using certain highly charged words. Among the questionable was "terrorist" - a word, I, in particular, find somewhat of an inflammatory...
Yeah. I'll admit it. I watch Mob Wives - "a docu-soap series that follows the lives of four women at a crossroads, having to pick up the pieces and carry on while their husbands or fathers do time for Mob-related activities."...
One of the most profound insights my Buddhist practice has given me is space between my emotions and their meaning. For years I had approached my feelings as a gateway into the truth of reality. When I was up, the world was a magical, profound...
A while ago, IDP's activism wing undertook an initiative to convince local stores and businesses in the East Village to give up the plastic bag convenience addiction. Pithily entitled "Back to the Sack," the real underlying goal of...
"You gotta take responsibility for the space you hold here…Understand that the third law of motion which says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? That is my religion. That is the fundamental construct of my religion...
