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“The Buddha didn’t care about malas or incense – he was interested in how the mind works.” -Ethan  For the next nine weeks, Wednesday night at the Interdependence Project will be a teeming morass of Buddhist teaching and inquiry called Hardcore Dharma. I was at the opening class last night of the new Hardcore Dharma…

Not sure what to say this week, the only thing really on my mind besides writing a cookbook is that my good friend died on Thursday. She was 35 and had been battling cancer for a bit and was supposed to get better but she didn’t. Her death was shocking and sudden. I saw her…

Kirsten Firminger is off today.

What happens when you open your hand let things flow?  Ethan explores the Tantric approach to Generosity in this week’s podcast available for download here.  You can get our full list of podcasts here, or subscribe via iTunes. If you are a regular listener please help us out by becoming a monthly donor.  It’s quick…

There is a major piece in this month’s Atlantic Monthly on politics and our economic meltdown, available here. It’s been getting a lot of attention, as the author is a very credible voice with alarming insights. Here’s the lede: The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most…

I started reading this book, The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, edited by Anthony Molino. It is a compilation of essays, the first of which is titled “Psychology in Primitive Buddhism,” by Joe Tom Sun, published in 1924. The essay is a paragraph by paragraph comparison of basic Buddhist concepts with…

Facebook, twitter, internet radio – I love all that stuff. The interconnectedness, the interdependence: I find myself fascinated by how these online communities grow and change, both in themselves and how they change us. I’m not the only one of course; An earlier post on the dharma of Facebook generated lots of interest. Maybe Facebook…

In my continuing project to identify instances of honest Buddhist thought appearing in Western culture, I would like to discuss the writer Lydia Davis today. Davis is a short story writer whose work blends poetry, philosophy and fiction. Many of her pieces are only a page long, or a sentences or two. I came across…

This week on the podcast is part 2 of a great guest lecture by Purna Steinitz titled “Crushed by Love”.  Purna leads us through his process of “studying untruth” in our relationships and the practice of turning every poison on our path into medicine. Purna Steinitz is the founder of the Trimurti community based in…

I have a lump in my throat.  Like one gets when Dumbo visits his mom in elephant jail.*  My lump decided to visit my throat a week and a half ago and, except for a few hours of respite here and there, refuses to leave.  It is a very annoying sensation – like there’s a…
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