The Buddha Freestyles is a new weekly column where I will take a quote from hip-hop and occasionally other forms of music and interpret how it can relate to living a life of mindfulness and compassion. Have a suggested lyric? Send it over.
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Sometime this week I remembered that my resolve was to not buy books until I gave away an equal number of books..in other words, there is a path to acquisition! I can get books!!!!! That just needs to rest on letting go, and creating space. This isn...
The word of the day is kindness. It's the magic ingredient for creating stress-free productivity. Kindness is portable, fast-acting and incredibly efficient. Got a case of the doldrums? Feeling overwhelmed? Depressed...
This yogi is not organized. Not yet! But I am beginning to develop confidence that such a feat is possible, that I can get my act together. I can get and, perhaps more importantly, stay organized. I'm almost done reading the...
Yesterday a friend of mine asked me about action that comes from ‘righteous anger’ and it’s place in Buddhism. I am still thinking about this question, but here are some thoughts.
I'll be the first to admit I have a problem with discipline. Maybe you know what I mean. When I know I need to work on an essay my hand is glued to the remote control and I'm inexplicably watching incredible feats of hair and make-up....
In her book On Beauty and Being Just, Harvard Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Elaine Scarry talks about the impulse one has upon witnessing the Beautiful. She describes it as a need to duplicate. To create in kind.
