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Buddhists talk a lot about emptiness. I want to talk about it more. Trungpa said, “This seminar is on shunyata, although we are quite uncertain what shunyata actually is. It seems that shunyata means not that, not this. So we shouldn’t have a discussion at all. If it’s not that, not this — what else?…

Hey all, by popular demand, we are  posting what is new on the Interdependence Project podcast each week. Dr. Miles Neale gave a fascinating lecture combining psychodynamic theory with Buddhist meditation practice last month.

I missed this weekend of Hardcore Dharma due to a performance gig, but sat down with the podcast to get an idea of what bubbled to the surface from the week’s reading of our Theravaden text In The Buddha’s Words, An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, edited with commentary by Bhikkhu Bodhi. From…

The other morning I was munching my usual bowl of Kashi GoLean Crunch (with added raisins) and listening to the All Songs Considered podcast from NPR. This week’s episode is Lesser-Known Love Songs, bringing together several music journalists and bloggers who share some of their favorite love songs. It’s a great episode with some interesting music.…

Subhuti My hut is roofed, comfortable, free of drafts; my mind, well-centered, set free. I remain ardent. So, rain-deva. Go ahead and rain. – (Theragatha 1.1)(verse 1) Translated from Pali by Thanissaro Bhikku.  www.accessinsight.org

I once read a quote that said you cannot criticize the place or era you live in without also criticizing yourself. This seems to be a pretty decent definition of my understanding of interdependence. Believing in interdependence means that you don’t believe you can stand apart from reality as an outside observer. It means believing…

We often have to wait for others to show up.  Or wait for our turn. Or wait to get to where we are going. In this situation, I was waiting for someone to meet me – we had agreed to meet at a particular corner near the subway station. Well, when I got out of…

Disclaimer: If you don’t have any familiarity with Naropa and Marpa, this post will probably be very boring. Fair warning, and apologies in advance. As Buddhism was first transmitted to the West, most students had little information about it other than what their teachers provided. That situation has changed dramatically over the last thirty years…

Via Andrew Sullivan and created by Lawrence Yang , a response to the new logo being shoved in our faces everywhere (literally, like, carpet-bombed into our brains): Find it here.

One day a girl in her early twenties who was interested in her mind came upon a man in a Zegna suit and a Brioni tie. Hoping he would turn into a frog (or anything besides a banker), she kissed him. POOF! There was a cloud of smoke and all of a sudden…he did not…
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