Your brain is fried, you’ve tried meditating or working out at your desk but it’s no use – the weekend looms like a beautiful giant rainbow of free time and you want out of the office. Stop straining and enjoy this Friday afternoon wrap-up: 1. China wants to have its torch and eat it too:…

By Stillman Brown I have a recurring phenomenon that arises when I’m meditating: my vision becomes slightly blurry and everything in my field of sight is tinged in white, like the shapes in my room are covered in downy white mold, except that the mold is shifting like sand on a tympani that is rolling…

TED, the same series that brought the fabulous Jill Bolte Taylor lecture (scroll down below for vid and discussion), has just released a new slideshow lecture with Al Gore, arguing that global warming might be happening even faster than we thought (Oh, goodie!). As usual, it is a gripping and definitely worth watching: I definitely…

So I was guest lecturing Friday night in Bloomfield NJ at the home of Jessica Rasp’s lovely Grandma (she has a regular series about once a month where about 25 folks show up to hear a Buddhist lecture and discussion), and I missed the premier of the final season of Battlestar Galactica. I was pretty…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners