Here at the Responsible Consumption Test Site, I've been test-driving websites and mobile apps to see how they can help us develop more mindful habits. This week, GoodGuide.com kicked my butt.
As a mindful consumption practice, I'm limiting my diet to foods that humans have eaten for thousands of years. Following Michael Pollan's Food Rules, I imagine my great-grandmother pushing a cart beside me in the grocery aisle. The blue...
The relation of science and dogmatic religion is one thing; they're incompatible. But the relation of science and spirituality is much more interesting.
Before Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment he was a confused twenty and thirty-something looking to learn how to live a spiritual life. Each time in this column we look at what it might be like if a fictional Siddhartha was on his spiritual...
Woah. I saw this image while browsing the Shambhala Times earlier today:
Cellphone radiation has always been in the back of my head (get the pun?). But really, I've thought about it before, and always allowed the...
Whether or not you beleive that human carbon output is directly linked to climate change, one fact most people would agree on is that the world is round and not flat.
Werner Herzog is the greatest living artist.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is playing at BAM and IFC ($17?) and some theatre in Carol Gardens for $7. It's 3D. It's a documentary.
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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.
I just read this article in Science Fair about how meditation can make one a more rational decision maker. Since my practice has been a bit shaky this week, reading this makes me want to sit RIGHT NOW. Yes I agree, I do feel calmer and more...
But death is real
Comes without warning
This body will be a corpse
--Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, 1974, “Four Reminders”
Perhaps, but perhaps not in the way we think. As an illustration of impermanence, it’s...
I confess to being somewhat swept up in the recent media frenzy over the new iPad 2. Sure, I already have the original version (which incidentally has more computing power than the Apollo 11 and does everything I want it to) but now there...
http://health.newsvine.com/_question/2011/02/25/6131050-do-you-believe-g...
There's good reason for that, as the safety of Genetically Modified Foods is still questionable, and their use generates more needs for environmentally...
This seems like a good quote for the holidays, which is one of the worst crisis times of the year, and a time of difficulty and depression for many people. If our survival instinct has actually wired us to view the world in a negative light, it...
