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If you see Buddha in the road, kill him. Or at least take a photo? thanks to Stillman for this “Chocolate Buddha with Gold Flecks, given to him by a foodie friend” (and to some tasty dharma burgers over the years, of course) Every weekend One City will feature a selected buddha image captured by…

I have to admit, the constant news of greed, ignorance, and a total disregard for interdependence—which seems to keep trickling down from the upper echelons of our society like some slapstick nightmare—is giving me one good old-fashioned case of populist rage. Seriously. I’m about to smack an executive upside the head with a zafu. (which…

I’ve been absent from the blogosphere as of late. First, my computer crashed…and no I hadn’t backed up recently. Yes, I know that’s stupid. Lucky for me, my roommate works at a computer consulting firm and he took it in and they fixed it up and recovered my files. But I have to admit that…

In this video, philosopher and ethnobotonist, Terence McKenna discusses the relationship between individual consciousness and cultural systems with a simple and approachable vocabulary.  He advises us to keep the self as “the final arbiter” in a way not unlike the Buddha in the Anguttara Nikaya when he instructs the Kalamas of Kesaputta not to rely…

Earlier this winter I decided to learn a new hobby: cooking. Nothing too fancy or involved; just regular meals that were healthier and cheaper than the restaurant food I’d been living on. And, as an added bonus, greener, because homecooked meals invariably require less packaging than takeout. Last week I decided to try something southern:…

A lost sutta, composed in a singularly rare dialogue form, recently found, preserved in amber, in a heretofore undiscovered catacomb of Nalanda University.  Buddha: Verily I ask you, excellent Julia May Jonas, if you knew old age and death were coming in, like mountains advancing from the east and the west, the north and the…

Very well, dear reader, thank you. I’ve been focusing exclusively on mindfulness-of-the-body-breathing practice for the past few months. It’s the first practice I had instruction in and, since I began practicing regularly two years ago, it’s been my bedrock technique. Some people do metta regularly, but when I think of “meditation,” I think of my…

This is making the rounds. I love this kid. Welcome to samsara, amigo. Hold on tight.

“I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit” ~Tyler Durden – Fight Club While I chastise myself not being more imaginative than quoting Fight Club, when I am feeling very anti-materialistic or anti-consumer culture, it is quotes from the book/movie…

I just listened to the tape of Christian Bale yelling for four minutes at a DP who walked into the middle of a scene on the set of the new Terminator, apparently not for the first time. Bale feels that his concentration has been thrown off and that the guy is an amateur – I’m…
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