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It’s not Jerry Kolber’s regular posting time, but I couldn’t resist posting these two clips. A wise man in Miami pointed me to the Joe Pyne show which ran nationally through the 50’s & 60’s. Both of these clips seem relevant to One City, both in terms of how different (and similar) media discourse was…

Photo of a Bushwick storefront.

Last week, I wrote about Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man”, arguing that Stevens was writing about shunyata. My real and abiding fascination with this kind of investigation is looking at representation of the Buddhist view—emptiness, interconnectedness, mindfulness, etc.—as they appear in Western culture. The idea is to recognize how Buddhist ways of thinking and…

Read Judith Warner’s Article Here Not sure how I feel about it…

Lately I’ve been feeling kind of crazy mad.  I’m mad at my roommate, at my parents, at everyone in a five foot radius of me at my job. I’m semi-annoyed at this friend  (how come you never write on MY facebook wall?) I’m irritated at my wardrobe.  I’m mad at the fact that today I…

No, it’s not a new Elie Wiesel book. This is what happens when one particular Indian woman goes to modern day Dachau.

RP: Sometimes people think that Buddhism should somehow resolve all our problems. It’s more that the path will bring those issues out. It’s when we deny them or ignore them or cover them up with a veneer of spirituality—that’s the problem. The more that we can really be authentic and true to where we are…

This week’s Podcast from the IDProject is a talk with Ethan on Karma and Materialism, check it out here.  <—- This is an image of a textile sculpture by artist Barbara Schulman titled “An Artifact of Materialism”.  She carefully sewed credit card fragments into a piece of black wool as a part of a larger…

The other day I got a solicitation from Shambhala Sun magazine. It included a series of “True or False” questions designed to intrigue the solicitee, one of which was: Playing rock is a profound spiritual path. A: True. Any activity is, if you do it mindfully. Any activity is a profound spiritual path if you…

This is damn damn brilliant and simply executed, if you didn’t see it yet:
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