Before I took the refuge vow in 2009, I asked Ethan if he thought that I should do it. I was hoping he would tell me what to do. He did discuss the issue with me, but he would not tell me what to do. I did take the vow and have never regretted...
Its been 53 years since His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has been allowed to see his home. 53 years since Tibetans have been allowed to publicly express their love and devotion towards their spiritual teacher, within their own homeland.
53 years...
This podcast features a lecture by Ethan and David Nichtern titled "Why Not Meditate?" It was recorded on February 20th, 2012 in New York City. This is the second of a two part podcast.
I am so happy about starting up the Seattle Interdependence Project.
I imagine a space where people can come to learn to work with their minds as I did a few years ago at IDP NYC. I am excited to be able to share this with the city that has...
"...the root meaning of the word radical is just that...the root or origin of something. To be radical is therefore to go to the root of something. Radical is a method or approach to "knowing"...going beyond surface manifestations...
"When I was quite young, living in Boulder, I was asked to teach a class, and it began. I honestly knew approximately zero at the time, but perhaps that was one approximation more than the next person, I suppose. In any case, it was the...
Please join United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth on Sunday, October 30th or two events in Brooklyn, NY.
Please RSVP for one or both of the events o Kathy Lique at klique@faireconomy.org or 617-423-2148 x121 for directions and to help...
For a meditation experience, how about a eight-day retreat at a Buddhist monestary with a 37-ft tall Buddha? In particular, the Chuang Yen Monastery (profiled in Tricycle).
While the majority of resident monks and nuns are from Chinese...
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Please join me on October 20th at Pace University where my teacher Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche will give a teaching on "Enlightened Attitudes". He is a holder of both a renown Tibetan lineage and a PhD from Harvard....
"The sorrow of great and small losses is a river that runs in the underground of all of our lives," Roshi Joan Halifax writes. "When it breaks to the surface, we might feel as though only 'I' know this pain. Yet grief is a...
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According to Nasa, tonight's full "super moon" will be the largest since 1993, meaning the full moon is the closest to the Earth's surface in 18 years.
Two analogies from Buddhism strike...
Join the Shambhala Sun Foundation April 1-3 to explore "The Wisdom of Anger: What the Buddhists Teach" at the mid-town Sheraton in New York. We'll practice and hear from stellar teachers Judy Lief, Narayan Liebenson Grady, and Norman...
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I've been trying to follow the events in Japan while teaching a workshop on Fearlessness and emptiness up here at Karme Choling, a Shambhala meditation center in Vermont. It is amazing when reality pulls...
As Americans we're used to thinking in terms of "Larger than Life", especially when it comes to the cinema. I'm not just referencing the Backstreet Boys movie/song either; currently presiding over the Manhattan Bridge right...
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Sharon Salzberg rocks. Steadily and thoroughly.
Once I had a baffling conversation with a Buddhist book editor where they claimed that there were already "so many" books about basic meditation...
What big brains we have - they make our world. But what do we really know about them? And what do we know about our mind? Meditators know the mind doesn't equal the brain, but at the same time our particular expression of mind as we know it...
This article was original published on Psychology Today by Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, who will be coteaching Buddhism and Psychology: Does East Meet West? at IDP, which can be attended in person, or remotely.
Today in the Wall Street Journal, there is...
