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Writer and performaner Kate Bornstein had sexual reassignment surgery in 1986. Her performances and writings reflect our culture's binary way of defining gender and all the suffering and confusion that it...
The Twin Towers once exemplified freedom and American capitalism. On September 11, 2001, they were abruptly transformed into symbols of terror and tragedy. Our hearts collapsed along with those buildings that morning, as did...
I’m in Colorado producing a seven hour documentary series for National Geographic – which is why you haven’t heard much from me lately. Medical Marijuana is an enormous and complicated subject and it’s taken all...
I continually assert that yoga practice encompasses more than physical fitness. As much as I generally try to avoid admitting it, this does implicitly question whether the use of yoga poses for physical fitness alone can even be considered yoga...
There’s a Zen meal chant that says in part,
“This food comes from the efforts of many workers, past and present,
And its advantages give us health and well-being and promote strong practice.
Seventy-two laborers brought us this...
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 -...
“I want someone on this path with me”
“That’s’ codependency”
I just spent a weekend in New York with a group of people I am happy to call my sangha. A sanhga is a community of meditators. They may not be...
Last week, with the earthquake I wrote a little bit about how the shake of the quake put me in a little bit of a tailspin. In the moments before the earthquake I was very content with where I was and what I was doing in my life, but yet...
Hey, anyone feel like getting enlightened today? Heard about it, want to give it a shot? Try it out? I say, go for it. Not me, though. Not this morning.
I have this tendency to be overly provocative, sometimes to a fault. I have managed to temper this but, as discussed previously, changing old patterns requires continued attention.
The title of this post is a perfect example. You see, I...
Instead of fixating on the news about Hurricane Irene all weekend, I decided instead to check out the natural disaster going on inside of my brain: the feelings, sensations and thoughts that go along with panic and fear, and what they...
Last week I participated in a real oxymoronic situation. It was a week-long urban retreat, the first ever organized by the New York Shambhala Meditation Center. We spent the whole week commuting between the center and individual home in a...
I’m a huge bookworm. I’m always reading at least three books at a time, and have at least five more waiting on the shelf to be read next. There is nothing better in the world than a good used bookstore, and nothing more meaningful to...
Karma is often described metaphorically as planting a seed. When you plant tomatoes, you get tomatoes, not peas. When you plant seeds of craving, jealousy, anger in your mind, they blossom into attitudes that color your life. It's the law of...
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 -...
My mind is stuck. For roughly two years I’ve had the same plaguing thoughts at least once a day, with no relief around me. I consider a small miracle if I go a few hours without struggling with certain hurts and discomforts.
Feeling out of sorts, annoyed, blue? Do you need a bit of magic in your life? Not the fancy shmancy genie-in-a-bottle tricky kinda magic. This is the real deal, folks. This here is your all-natural organic magic.
