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Jerry Kolber’s post below jives perfectly (is it blogdipity??) with my recent thoughts on a quote from one of Ian McEwan’s books about the meditative experience of writing. I wondered if writing or painting or composing or are direct routes to a kind of “accelerated meditative concentration.” It can certainly feel like it. I’d like to add…

I came across a photo project by Michael Wolf, in which he photographs 100 of the residents of Hong Kong’s oldest public housing project in their apartments. Each apartment is 10 X 10, so it’s 100 people by 100 square feet. Though I expected to be dismayed by what I saw, I actually found something…

Growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am a water person. So, it is helpful to me to think about my breath as similar to waves on the shore. Just as the waves are only the tip of all that water that is connecting with the beach, what I breathe is part of…

This was sent around on the Shambhala listserv. I liked it, so I’m passing it along. (Note: the 12 Nid?nas are traditionally described as a process that spans three lifetimes or more. The Abhidharma-ko?a of Vasubandhu describes a scheme whereby all occur in any given moment, and some modern teachers teach this interpretation, but this…

This week on the podcast is 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 Bozeman, Montana and…

I take out my wallet and hand the guy behind the counter two crisp dollar bills with barely a thought. I sip the coffee and I’m not sure if I actually even wanted it. What is the mental process involved in the action of opening up my wallet and paying for something? The motion of…

Comedian Lewis Black appeared at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art on March 9, part of their BRAINWAVE series, which puts famous thoughtful people and less-famous thoughtful people onstage together to provoke more thought, as far as I can tell. And a lot of talk! Black was appearing with Dr. Robert Allan, psychiatrist, researcher, and…

At the writing of this post, I have 2022 friends on facebook. Are they all my friends, you might ask. Well, yes, they are all my facebook friends. Have I met them all in person? No, probably only about half. “Facebook friend” is its own special category of psychological camaraderie. Like all others, it’s a…

Like many others this week, I found myself strangely fascinated with the death of actress Natasha Richardson. Not that I was a fan per se, but I think it was more the senselessness and randomness of it that was striking. That a bump on the head can, a few hours later, cause one to be…

A Mistake or, In Lieu of My Regular Friday Post He wanted to change the energy, his energy. He wanted to take his frustration and irritation and, like an alchemist, turn it into flamboyance and originality. It was a small thing—it always is—a minor mistake involving his computer, a small copy-and-paste error that caused him…
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