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My 45-year-old brother can’t seem to stop smoking, even though he’s been diagnosed with the earliest stages of emphysema, a truly dreadful ailment that will eventually leave him constantly breathless if he doesn’t quit lighting up. I’d hate to see my brother tied by the nose to an oxygen tank. But I don’t want to…

If you haven’t tried the terrific exercise method known as Pilates, click here to find centers all over the country celebrating National Pilates Day this May 5th. Many classes are free. Click here to learn more about the yoga-tinged technique that will tone your abs like virtually no other. And here’s an interesting list of…

The Omega Institute and Shambhala Sun magazine have organized an exciting two day workshop on “Fear and Fearlessness” from a Buddhist perspective, June 22-24, 2007, in Rhinebeck, New York. “We explore how fear can be a source of growth rather than something to avoid,” the promotional materials say. “As a result, we can discover the…

New York Times writer Ethan Todras-Whitehill didn’t hesitate to make fun of his subjects in this article about guides who lead spiritual tours of the world’s most sacred sites. But at the end of the piece (click here to find it), there’s a good index of agencies that plan spiritual vacations for individuals, couples, and…

There are moments in marriage you remember, images in a mental frame. Last night, I got to see my tuxedoed husband Mr. Chattering (Steven Waldman) charge up to a podium at Lincoln Center to receive from the American Society of Magazine Editors Beliefnet.com’s award for Website General Excellence. We won in that category over ESPN.com,…

Ricki Lake, the amiable former talk show host, has produced a new documentary about the child birth business that covers both natural and medical child birth methods. The film premieres this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. I do not yet know how her documentary will be distributed, but it features a…

Out of last month’s Virginia Tech shootings comes the call for “pure bliss consciousness,” or more precisely, the teaching of a meditation method that can help young people believe in themselves, and stand up for non-violence. Filmmaker David Lynch planned a very compelling press conference today, and aired it on the web, to discuss his…

Calling spiritually-inclined parents and members of mixed faith households: You’ll be interested in an article I just wrote for Beliefnet’s “Spiritual Parenting Week” package. They called it “A Christian Mom Makes a Bar Mitzvah,” and it’s about how I have raised my sons in my husband’s faith. Here’s the beginning of the piece: It’s a…

The New York Times magazine published an amusing exchange between interviewer Deborah Solomon and Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons yesterday that points to the general public’s confusion about the difference between meditation and relaxation (just doing something pleasurable). When Solomon says in the interview that Simmons’ book “Do You! 12 Laws to Access the…

I always think that sleeping is in a way a “small death.” Hence every night we face a “small death;” all these small deaths train us for the “big death,” and we thereby gain knowledge of how to die. –excerpted from a teaching on sleep by the Venerable Gedun Tharchin, a Lharampa Geshe from Ganden…
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