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Dialogs With My Teacher #34
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. ___ September 29, 2010 (#35) Student: Is there any knowing that is...
Occupy Integral! As long as it’s really Integral.
The Integral Movement fascinates me. At its most basic level, Ken Wilber's work offers any of us on the path a map that helps us to look at our own spiritual development and integrates it with everything else in an evolving world. Hence, "Integral." At its best,...
Dialogs With My Teacher #33
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. ___ September 24, 2010 Student: Im confused in that so much of what I...
Dialogs With My Teacher #32
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. ___ September 23, 2010 Student: Is full participation in the dance...
How do you deal with discomfort, personally?
Commuter Zen #73
Buddhism, Drinking and Sex
Allison Yarrow offered up this piece about Lodro Rinzler's class at the Shambhala Center in NYC. I thought it quite interesting and struck me as so congruent with a great deal of our quasi-Buddhist approaches that we celebrate at Infinite Smile. Rinzler authors a...
Where does God fit into Zen practice?
Commuter Zen #72
Dialogs With My Teacher #31
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. ___ September 16, 2010 Student: I keep thinking that the mental stories...
This is not your grandmother’s Zen, is it?
Commuter Zen #72
Dialogs With My Teacher #30
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. ___ September 14, 2010 (#31) Student: Is chaos empty? Michael: Like all...