Rumi was a 13th century Sufi mystic. His ability to open our hearts helps to dissolve religious, social, economic, and personal boundaries. His poetry inspires us to consider friendship and connections with others to be sacred activities. Rumi spoke his poetry in beautiful words and images in such a way that I’m sure he recognized […]
There Is Beauty In Extreme Old Age
July 16, 2013 by
There are a few lines from the Mikado, a opera by Gilbert and Sullivan from 1885 that go like this, There is beauty in extreme old age. Do you fancy you are elderly enough? Information I’m requesting On a subject interesting: Is a maiden all the better when she’s tough? This refrain occurs because Ko-Ko, […]
The Compassionate Instinct
July 15, 2013 by
The compassionate instinct is a term coined by the University of California, Berkeley professor of psychology, Dacher Keltner. He was one of the contributors to the Sounds True series on The Compassionate Brain hosted by Rick Hanson. His topic was The Evolution of Compassion: From Gene to Meme. According to Compassion: Our First Instinct, an […]
Five Steps To Positive Self-Talk
July 12, 2013 by
Many years ago, I took the Silva Mind Control course over a late winter weekend in Chicago. The course was transformative and much of the information has become part of my daily meditation practice. Two years later, I was learning the same material from Father Eli in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas. My experience there […]
Evidence Based Religion
July 11, 2013 by
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, known as Thay by his followers, was interviewed by Jo Confino, and executive editor of the Guardian on December 22, 2011 in Plum Village, Dordogne, France. The interviewer asked, “One of the things that you said in your talk is that the Earth, planet Earth, Mother Earth is not the same […]
Everybody’s Free To Feel Good!
July 9, 2013 by
Everybody’s free to feel good is the theme of this video, originally called, “Everybody’s Free To Wear SUNSCREEN!” With almost 9,000,000 views, you may have seen it already. One of the main ideas expressed in the video is, “Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.” I suppose this means also not […]
Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation – San Francisco Chronicle
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Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation – San Francisco Chronicle.
Birthday Greetings For The Dalai Lama
July 7, 2013 by
Open Letter to The Dalai Lama I sent these birthday greetings to The Dalai Lama yesterday. To Your Holiness the Dalai Lama,On the auspicious occasion of your birthday, I send best wishes from my heart to warm yours with the knowledge that you are loved, admired and respected by people the world over.As an active, […]
Is Global Warming Real?
July 6, 2013 by
Is climate change real? Is global warming something that humans are responsible for? I keep asking myself these questions, especially when friends suggest that climate change is a scientific hoax. Last week, I watched an amazing film by photographer James Balog called, “Chasing Ice“. This is an effort by an artist to show the world that climate […]
Scientific Buddhism
July 5, 2013 by
Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar, author, and meditation master from the UK. He is trained in both the Karma Kagyu and Sakya traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In this article from the Tricycle blog, he emphatically speaks out against scientific Buddhism. What is scientific Buddhism? It is the effort to radically alter Buddhist ideas to correspond to […]
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