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Something crazy happened on Tuesday evening. I was riding the subway home with a friend from class and there was this paranoid girl (a teenager) yelling at people for looking at her. No one was looking at her…of course. My friend and I continued talking and tried to ignore her when she got in my…

Sometimes, in the mornings, I make tea before I meditate. Then I wonder if I should practice first, and drink the tea later (when it’s not so hot), or do something else, drink the tea, and then meditate. I’m a tea addict. And I drive myself insane with order-of-operations issues like these. Does caffeine help…

On Saturday, December 7th we discussed the nine stages of Shamatha. Acording to Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche: “These nine stages are a map of the meditative process.  The first four stages—placement, continual placement, repeated placement and close placement—have to do with developing stability. Stages five and six—taming and pacifying—have to do with developing clarity. And the…

During the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama talked a lot about average folks struggling to get by: a teacher keeping up with mortgage payments while sending their kid to college, or a skilled machinist in Ohio who saw his job shipped overseas and had to go without health insurance. As a politically observant person (some would…
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