This past Memorial Day weekend, I started the job of switching out my closets from my winter items to my summer things. I store the winter stuff; I wear the summer stuff. It's a biggish job.
I started to think about Peter Menzel's book...
Whenever I'm socializing with friends or family, invariably some part of the conversation is devoted to complaining. From the political, ("I'm sick of hearing about those stupid "Birthers"), to the financial (...
We all dislike confrontation or anything that may put us in a situation that pushes our balance or our center off. Well, I hope we dislike it, as I think there are a few individuals that do like confrontation and thrive on it as a way of...
Like many people, my initial experience with meditation was solely as a relaxation technique. I'm grateful to have learned its basic principles in my yoga classes, where we were taught to sit quietly and breathe calmly, and...
I'm in the very extraordinary Kolkata, India, where I'm traveling for the next week with a very extraordinary client on a very extraordinary TV project. More to come on that later. We spent a good part of the day yesterday visiting with...
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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...
In The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching Thich Nhat Hanh writes, “The Buddha expressed Interdependent Co-Arising very simply: ‘This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This comes to be, because that comes to be....
I was let go from my job last night, effective immediately. Equipped with a new mantra I had developed for times of personal crisis, I was able to distance myself from the initial shock of finding out that I was no longer employed and thus not...
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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...
Why is that when you start to feel the most comfortable with where life is taking you and the path seems to be looking bright in the horizon, is when you are surprisingly faced with unpleasant reminder of how quickly the rug can be pulled out from...
You should hear my internal monologue. It's pretty embarrassing, but it's entertaining, and it's all about me. Me, me, me. It's interesting how my opinions are the right ones, and how everyone else's choices are wrong. I...
“In the Shambhala warrior tradition, we say you should only have to kill an enemy once every thousand years.” –Chogyam Trungpa
So, Osama bin Laden is dead. We killed him. There really was no choice. We were clearly in an...
