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No Surprises
A good stillness practice is like spiritual athleticism, right? Looks that way. At integral praxis, there is a new post about a study showing that meditation opens the gateway to compassion Like athletes or musicians, people who practice meditation can enhance their...
Waylon Lewis: Top 10 Buddhist Teachers Living in America.
No, I'm not on the list, but that's OK. I'm not really a Buddhist. That said, these superlative lists always are great at showing established practitioners where their preferences and attachments may hide. I'm sure Waylon will get his share of anger about his post....
Reflecting a deeper compassion
On Michael Paulson's Articles of Faith Blog, San Francisco's Archbishop George H. Niederauer's defense of California's Proposition 8, outlawing same-sex marriage is paired with its backlash. The only problem is that the video "Proposition 8: the musical" starring Jack...
Matthieu Ricard continues to spread the Dharma in beautiful ways
James Shaheen writes in today's Tricycle editor's blog about molecular-biologist cum Tibetan monk, Matthiew Ricard and how he is: ... widely admired for his many talents, among them photography. But Ricards life seems best defined by his humanitarian work and...
Free of Time
Buddhaspace offers us a great quote from Master Xu Yun in today's post: Step outside of time just once, and all the years you spent in ignorance and suffering recede into vagueness. Theyre only something you seem to remember. Your old small self is gone and all his...
Once again: The Self-Esteem Trap
In a previous post, I wrote of the dangers of "small self esteem". Now Shambala Sun Space's Andrea Miller blogs about her upcoming article: Gen Me as a whole is caught in what she calls the self-esteem trap and its the way weve been raised that made us so. The March...
The Right Wants Deepak
I couldn't help it. I just had to keep this story going since I think it is actually quite meaningful. All of us should consider how it is, on a psycho-spiritual level, that we both let information about our world in, and then how we express it. Is there clinging? Is...
A loving Pope, as long as you’re not gay
Time magazine's, Jeff Israely notes: After acquiring a reputation as an aggressive, doctrine-enforcing Cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his gentle manner and his writings on Christian love. Not so fast... Benedict's envoy to the United Nations,...
Zen Mormans?
In today's MormonTimes, we learn of two BYU students who consider themselves Zen Mormons. "They have things to teach us," [Zach] Elison said. "Everything I love about Buddhism I find in my own religion, they just emphasize it differently." [Brandon] Habermeyer and...
Pics Along the Path
When shampoo attacks...