- revolutions (like office politics, relationship fights, and traffic jams) always seem more eternal and momentous when you're right in the middle of them. Movements that you think are absolutely, unquestionably changing the entire world...
Lodro Rinzler is a practitioner and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. He currently serves as the Development Officer for Shambhala International and Interim Director of the New York Shambhala Center. Lodro’s column, What Would Sid...
Today's quote comes from Susan Piver, a relationship Dharma powerhouse (read: she writes and talks a lot about Buddhism and relationships, particularly romantic ones), who just so happens to be coming to IDP this following week on Thursday,...
The Frick has a drawing show up right now that includes some incredible Goya drawings (and his selected predecessors or if you're big Ribera fan there're some incredible Ribera drawings and his selected successors). It closes January 23....
I’ve been off the blogging map for the last few weeks. With a very full schedule ahead, it felt like time to go more inward (without going on formal retreat), to reflect on the year that passed and the year ahead. I spent a lot of time...
Last year I decided to imagine that I was dying. For the whole year, I held a contemplation that this was it; that I only had this final year, as if I had a terminal condition. Or I tried to hold it, it was incredibly difficult. But I learned a...
People sometimes ask me about Tibetan visualization practices in meditation. Since I don't really do them, I usually point them to YouTube or a couple of decent websites. Many folks consider visualization wildly exotic and foreign. I'm not...
