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The eco-yoga toilet post here a few days ago made me think. About interdependence. About my childhood. About the Destroilet.

Check out the nice spread in the Los Angeles Times today about the work of my friend Noah Levine, Dharma Punx Founder and Buddhist Teacher. (Photo from Los Angeles Times Article) What do you think of Noah?

In a recent post entitled “Up From Buddhism,” Andrew Sullivan quotes a journalist and a blogger who have a less than favorable view of our tradition:  From 2003, John Horgan explains why he gave up on Buddhism: …what troubles me most about Buddhism is its implication that detachment from ordinary life is the surest route to…

Despite my best intentions, I still have days when I miss my meditation practice. I’m on point for a while and then something happens- I’m busy with school, going out and getting in too late, etc.- that I lose the momentum. So, when we received the assignment in my cognitive behavioral therapy class to design…

Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx-born New York City native, is a federal Appeals court judge, a 54-year-old Hispanic woman, a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton who received her law degree from Yale, and a potential Supreme Court nominee. The name “Sotomayor” has been much seen in the news since Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s retirement…

Matthew Yglesias is one of my favorite bloggers, a sharp wit, and a dyed-in-the-wool progressive. He has a great post (via Tyler Cowen) about how our notions of corporate nationality (i.e., Apple is an essentially American company, even though very little of its product is manufactured in America) don’t jive with the global, interdependent reality of capitalism.…

Check out the new…um…eco…um…yoga…um…toilet…um…sink.

Allen Ginsberg is arguably the most well-known Buddhist poet.  Famously, he met Chogyam Trungpa on the streets of New York–as they were vying for the same cab.  They shared the cab and discovered during the trip that they were both poets.  Later that night, they met for a drink downtown and showed each other their…

I found this lecture interesting, and Gregory Schopen’s tie is amazing.
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