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Last Saturday Hardcore Dharma continued its study of the Lojong by focusing on Point Four and Point Five of the mind training slogans.  Point Four is typically called “life and death,” which Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche connects with the paramita of exertion or Virya.  Introducing the slogans, he warns against laziness.  I really liked Ethan’s definition…

If I do a session of sitting meditation in a dream does that count as my recommended daily 10-minute session? Eh? No? Dang. I ask because I’ve been dreaming a lot lately. I attribute this, in part, to sleeping more but I notice that dreaming is also cyclical. I have bouts of intense dreaming for…

This week on the IDProject Podcast Ethan leads a talk about Why We Need Anger.  You can listen to the podcast here, and check out a list of all our podcasts here, or subscribe through iTunes. If you are a regular listener please help us out by becoming a monthly donor.  We are asking people…

We should not forget that the mind, whatever turn that we want to give it, is very flexible. To the extent that we train ourselves, we create a habit and the mind accepts the crease that we give it. —Bokar Rinpoche, Profound Wisdom of the Heart Sutra

Delta 1 by Ron Hays Not to get all new-agey electro boogie spirit crystal dance in the cosmic wavepool on you, but yeah: This video was made using the Paik-Abe videosynthesizer, which is a magnificent structure all on its own: About the Video Synthesizer: “From 1969 to 1971, together with television technician and specialist Shuya…

Research by the Ethisphere Institute featured on the Miller-McCune website has recently shown that the banks that are asking for money to bail them out were also the banks that have the lowest scores on measures of business ethics. In addition, the Ethisphere Institute published a list of the “2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies.” To…

I am not making up that headline. In the same week that I began my own 140 Twitter-post journey to explain why Twitter was the next step in the de-personalization of over-noisification of the very tiny (yet very consumptive) subset of humanity that uses social media, the IDP and Ethan Nichtern joined the Twitter bandwagon…

There are a lot of things I find interesting about this article, titled “Buddhaguptanatha and the Late Survival of the Siddha Tradition in India,” by David Templeton. Usually, when reading about the history of Indian Buddhism,

Couldn’t embed this great CNN video interview about a donation-based restaurant in Ohio that is doing just fine with no set prices on their menu, but Watch It Here and then check back for discussion. What do you think? Could the Dana (generosity, donation, pay-what-you-can) model catch on in America in the current economic crisis?…
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