Build a Bigger Brain

by | Aug 3, 2009 | Blog

Bodhipaksa, over at Wildmind has just posted this fascinating article: People who meditate have bigger brains than those who don’t, say researchers at UCLA. Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of meditators and non-meditators,...

Dalai Lama’s Successor Dilemma… take a vote.

by | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog

So very interesting… The People’s Daily Online reports: According to an interview with People’s Daily Online, professor Shen Weirong, director of the Research Center on Han-Tibetan Buddhism at Renmin University of China, and expert on Tibet, said...

by | Jul 14, 2009 | Blog

This issue came up over the weekend as I spoke with someone about their desire to leave their community. Individuals with these false Awakenings fill the spiritual marketplace. They may be charismatic, brilliant, and disarming. Yet as teachers they perhaps haven’t...

by | Jul 2, 2009 | Blog, Photos

Dog gets too close to child during baking… Originally uploaded by Michael G. McAlister

Renaissance Roshi

by | Jun 30, 2009 | Blog

Ross Robertson of EnlightenNext has a nice piece on an interesting pioneer: Jun Po Roshi—dharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zen—came to...

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