Fascination. Mindfulness Provides All You Need to be Thrilled and it is Right...
We live to be fascinated by the fascinating. We are built to appreciate the novel. After all, something new on the horizon may have meant dinner or being dinner for our ancestors. However, today,...
View ArticleAxiom: The Classics: Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita -- Lord Krishna talking to Arjuna, Chapter 2, stanzas 14 & 15 When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are...
View ArticleBook Shelf: Your True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh
Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Tich Nhat Hanh (Shambhala 2011) arrived in the mail the other day. It's a lovely book, and I mean the physicality of "book." It's a thick 5 by 7 inch volume that...
View ArticleLive Webcast from Dharamsala: Mind and Life XXIII, Ecology, Ethics and...
In 1984, I attended the Inner Science Conference with the Dalai Lama and Western scientists and clinicians. The Inner Science Conference was the precursor to the Mind and Life Series, that is now in...
View ArticleTibetan Rinpoche Likes Ben & Jerry’s
This is a personal account of a meeting with a remarkable being – a Tibetan Rinpoche. This meeting took place in October of 2003, in the small city of Burlington, in the small state of Vermont. This...
View ArticleMy Reincarnation: A Compelling film by Jennifer Fox
My Reincarnation is a beautiful documentary film by Jennifer Fox about the dharma, Tibetan Buddhism and culture, family, and living everyday life. Spanning three decades, it is an intimate, almost...
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