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A friend of mine has a friend who recently saw a play, “The Buddha – In His Own Words” and recommended it to me. When pressed about it he said, simply, “it’s supposed to be good.” It’s not much of an endorsement, but it looks interesting and comes highly praised by Mark Epstein, author of…

I’m sorry… I simply could not resist. Love, Cassmaster

By Stillman Brown Regular readers know I’ve been swept up in the cacophony of chatter surrounding the race for the Democratic presidential nominee. Some of my commentary, I feel, has been worth reading, mostly for it’s entertainment value. Some, not so much. On my morning blog cruise, I read this post by Marc Ambinder of…

First of all, do hypocrisy and irony get any bigger and bolder than Eliot Spitzer? That is my first question. I mean, come on. I already said this to Will.I.Am but….Cognitive dissonance much? No. Seriously. Come on. WTF. As the 13th century Soto Zen master Dogen used to say to students, “He who becomes amorous…

By Stillman Brown A few weeks ago, my roommate Becca and I were eating Chinese and watching Scrubs reruns on Comedy Central when a small, fast-moving gray object streaked out from under the futon and disappeared into a small ring of space between the radiator’s steam pipe and the floor. A couple of days afterward,…

This is a succinct and thoughtful essay about the Spitzer debacle by Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago Law School. (University of Chicago Philosopher MARTHA NUSSBAUM on the Spitzer Resignation, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution…) Trading on America’s puritanical streak Prostitution laws mean-spirited, penalize women By MARTHA NUSSBAUM Eliot Spitzer, one of the nation’s…

During the IDP Day of Activism in February, Melanie Einzig and I partnered up to canvas local shopkeepers about their use of plastic bags and willingness to consider alternatives. As we walked around the neighborhood, she told me about a slide show she had made about plastic bags. . . . and here it is!…

The news in Tibet: BBC, Reuters. Tricycle has some coverage, too. I’m reading the new Philip Roth novel right now, Exit Ghost, and am back into Nathan Zuckerman mode: not wanting to know anything about the outside world at all, when there’s news like this. Sometimes the best presence is absence. Here’s something posted on…

Good morning everyone. I am sorry that I have been so AWOL from the blogosphere…. circumstances in my life have been cRaZy as of late. So this morning, I just want to pass along a link to an interview between Bill Moyers and Pema Chodron. You can watch it or just read the transcript, but…

The class structure is very clearly stapled to the bulletin board, laminated in the school colors, orange and blue. “Tune In! Warm Up! Learn and Try! Relaxation!” They know their sun salutation, are getting the poses down. They know what behavior keeps them on their orange spongy mats, what behavior leads them to sit out…
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