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Happy October 13, y’all. My message for the day is no matter how f-cked up the past, it forms the causal basis for our present existence. Which means loathing the past is a very sneaky and peculiar form of Self-Hatred. Still trying to figure this out for myself, but I know it’s true. One of…

When David Nichtern spoke with the IDP earlier this year, he called his lecture It’s The End of The World  As We Know It And I Feel Fine.  Whether he was borrowing an REM title or just trying to scare us all is a matter of some debate, but I was thinking about both the…

Friday night I had the opportunity to attend a talk sponsored by the Omega Institute on “Buddhist Psychology for the West”. The stars of Buddhist psychology were there- Mark Epstein, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Being that I’m studying psych., I was excited to attend. I’m definitely interested in incorporating some aspects of Buddhist thought…

Before the refuge ceremony last Saturday, Acharya Eric Spiegel talked with us about the meaning of refuge vows for lay practitioners. How do we “take refuge” if we’re not shaving our heads and joining a monastery? Stillman covered a lot of that conversation, and the retreat itself, in his post yesterday. But there was something…
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