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Perhaps my excitement over finding Mike Nesmith videos shows my youth, but what’s not exciting about Astrounauts dancing on the hood of a pink eldorado that is flying over the moon?  And how about how amazing that song is?  It’s peachy and funny, yet carries a self-awareness that isn’t self-effacing (just like my favorite zen…

My favorite Buddhism-studying, Judaism-propagating, skateboarding, NYC-former-hip-hop kid Evan Rock leads about 60 of his hipster friends through the Passover Seder on 2nd night of Passover. I love ritual, even though the story of Passover is quite a wrathful one.

TF, good little yupster/slave to her body that she is, needs her yoga.  TF was sick and busy and wasn’t able to get to yoga for about a week and a half, (which, since TF prefers to go 3 to 4 times a week (TF needs her yoga) is a super long time).  So TF…

Last night was the second meeting of the new Hardcore Dharma class, which critics have already hailed as a commercial and critical success. Since our first class books have been purchased and (incomprehensible) sutras puzzled over. We began by reviewing the Four Noble Truths and the third one, “the cessation of suffering is attainable,” led…

Maybe I am just a crab, but I found the whole concept of “Earth Hour” to be ridiculous. For those of you who may have missed it, Earth Hour was an event that happened March 28, 2009 where businesses, governments, and people around the globe turned off their lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. This is…

On March 25 Brad Warner stopped by the Interdependence Project to discuss topics from his new book Zen Warpped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate. After telling us a bit of his personal history he lead us in a very interesting Question and Answer session that touched on many topics including Enlightenment, what it feels like…

Last month there was an unbearably sad story in the Washington Post magazine, about parents who forgot their kids in cars with fatal consequences. Read it here.

Go Iowa, Go Vermont. From Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal: Oh, by the way, I do weddings.

Last year at my dad’s Passover seder, I made more than my fair share of comments about how out of touch I felt the Haggadah we were using was. For the non-Jewish Buddhists out there, a Haggadah is the special prayer book we use on Passover. It contains all the prayers and rituals for the…

In 1994, Mary Pipher penned the classic psychology-porn book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.  Thus identified, many an angsty adolescent girl (myself included/higlighted) in the mid-90’s pored over this tome, gleefully fantasizing about developing the dramatic psychosis of the test cases Pipher recounted.  Of course the book wasn’t intended for us, it…
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