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Dharma Literature: Flannery O’Conner
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Paul Griffin
As a devotee of religious literature, I recently read Flannery O’Conner’s novel Wise Blood, and I realized that I increasingly read everything though a kind of dharmic lens. Meaning, even if a book isn’t particularly dharmic, I find a way to read a touch of dharma into its story or characters. I wondered why I…
The Sickest Buddhist (Video Removed), Lululemon and Spiritual Materialism: So Overrated
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Ethan Nichtern
So Arj Barker of the great HBO show Flight of the Conchords (well, Season one was great at least) made this send-up of meditation students and people who practice yoga for all the wrong reasons. (UPDATE: The Video is now down from Vimeo, and Youtube. If you can find it, please post in the comments…
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By
Emily Herzlin
It was a quiet Sunday morning, just before a thunderstorm was to break out over New York City. The sky was bright and gray at the same time, with clouds closing in over 27th Street like a camera shutter. Little did Emily know that after she finished eating her bowl of cinnamon flavored cereal and…
Merce Cunningham Is Dead
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Julia May Jonas
Merce Cunningham died last night. He was 90 years old. Groundbreaking dance and performance visionary of the 20th and 21st century, exceptional performer and theorist, Merce created art until the end, choreographing a piece this winter at Brooklyn Academy of Music titled, “Nearly Ninety.” The first time I heard about Cunningham I was eight years old. …
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