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Dialogs With My Teacher #51
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ___ December 14, 2010 Student: Where there is love, there can be no fear,...
read moreSo what is mastery?
Commuter Zen...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #50
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ___ December 4, 2010 Student: My teenager keeps asking me what there is...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #49
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ___ November 23, 2010 (#49) Student: It feels like my spiritual path has...
read moreThe Dharma of Getting Dumped
Kristin Luce offers up a great piece on one of life's universal miseries... So heres the humiliating truth: I was just dumped. I cant even hate him because he did it so kindly and with such matu Take my advice: Dont ever get into a relationship with a mature man....
read moreWilliam Quinn asks the question, "What's an American Buddhist," then offers up a good article that addresses it. The crux of his point is this: North American Buddhists are likely to create their own traditions and schools of thought, but they should do so with the...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #48
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ___ November 22, 2010 (#48) Student: It seems like the spiritual path...
read moreWhy the Young Are Losing Their Religion
A student at Duke offers up this interesting article in the Huffington Post: Newspapers and op-ed writers have noted that more and more members of the younger generations are turning away from Christianity. As a college student, I can tell you that from personal...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #47
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ___ November 17, 2010 (#47) Student: How does practicing silence lead to...
read moreThe “You’re Not Special” Commencement
What? I'm not special? This, from the Washington Post, is an excerpt of Wellesly High School's most recent commencement address, delivered by David McCullough, Jr. (yes... it's that David McCullough's son). The whole speech, in context, is worth a read. Walt...
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