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Can a bunny be enlightened? I give you the Buddha Bunny…
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Kirsten Firminger
This year at the Burning Man Project, a 20 foot bunny is going to seek enlightenment. How do I know this? Well, last year I contributed a leaf to a New York based multi-media art project I thought was cool called arbor animus. The creation was a “Spirited, or Courageous Tree, is a 16-foot-tall, multimedia,…
In Review: Adi Shankaracharya
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Greg Zwahlen
I recently rented “Adi Shankaracharya,” the first and only movie made entirely in Sanskrit. It’s a biopic of Shankara, an 8th century Hindu saint who was perhaps the most important exponent of Advaita Vedanta (a Hindu tradition).I can’t say the movie was terribly entertaining (it is 2:40 minutes long, and I watched most of it…
Podcast: “Contemplative Prayer in Christianity” Part 2 with Father Thomas Ryan
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Patrick Groneman
This week on the ID Project podcast is Part 2 Father Thomas Ryan‘s Guest Lecture at the ID Project. Part 1 contrained an outline and history of a form of Christian Contemplative Meditation known as Lectio Divina (“Active Listening”). In this episode he actually leads a guided meditation (so you can follow along at home). …
The Strange Institution of Death
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Stillman Brown
Last weekend I attended my very first funeral for the son of close family friends. His death, at ten years old, was a tragedy. While his passing wasn’t unexpected – he had been sick with several different types of cancer for the last six years – it nevertheless came with frightening speed; pictures from a…
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