Cosmology And Buddhist Thought – The Book!

Cosmology and Buddhist Thought: A Conversation with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson JUST RELEASED Do the modern science of cosmology and ancient Buddhist thought have anything in common? Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dr. Jerome Freedman try to answer this question in a conversation that took place in New York in May, 2011. Dr. Tyson is […]

Awesomeness Fest

Awesomeness Fest.

How To Change Your Beliefs

This video was posted by Laura Silva, president of the Silva Method, on the Silva Life System blog. It was created by someone named Deborah and tells how to change your beliefs. This will change your life! Laura comments, …The universe is so abundant of everything it makes me wonder when people say they don’t […]

Malala Yousafzai Spoke Like The Buddha

Malala Yousafzai spoke like the Buddha when Jon Stewart interviewed her on the Daily Show on October 8. When he asked her how she reacted to the Taliban wanting her dead, she said, I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But […]

Taking Refuge In Kindness

Taking refuge in kindness is coming home to yourself with a gesture of kindness when you are feeling anxious, lonely, depressed, and down on yourself. Tara Brach teaches us to have a little self-compassion: The way of healing and homecoming begins with what I call “a gesture of kindness.” You might for instance put your […]

A Coincidence That Opened My Heart

I celebrated my continuation day on October 8. Micah arrived from Ashland, Oregon on the 6th. Rachael was sill in San Diego and was scheduled on a flight to arrive in San Francisco at 9:50 AM on the morning of the 8th. I had planned to pick her up at the airport and meet Micah […]

Be A Bell Tower

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. —Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian mystic poet and novelist, “widely […]

The Vanishing Bucket List

My dharma brother and fellow OI1 member, Peter Cutler, posted this article on the OI Discussion board on Friday, October 4. I wrote back that what he wrote fits very nicely with Dr. Sara Gordon‘s article, Undivided Self. Peter’s writing about the vanishing bucket list is clear and interesting. The Vanishing Bucket List Whether we […]

Lonely Travelers

As of today, October 5, 2013, all three of my children are away from their homes. Micah, who lives in New York is in Ashland, Oregon at the Shakespeare Festival. This is something he has been doing since his days at Stanford University. Rachael is visiting her college friend in San Diego, California, where she […]

Violence Is Never Ever A Choice A Man Should Make

This short video will hopefully develop a lot of compassion in you. When Heather Skye asked Sir Patrick Stewart,”Besides acting, what are you most proud of that you have done in you life (that you are willing to share with us)?” Heather writes, Sir Patrick told us about how he couldn’t protect his mother from […]