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The Game of Generosity

I had an original thought (just kidding) yesterday, an exciting funny read more

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Practicing Mindfulness on the Playground

My son's spit strings together my story of personal failure.  Tong Len brings me present and helps me work with what is. read more

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Full Catastrophe Tuesday

Yesterday on the N train, a man who was standing in front of me suddenly reached over and punched the open window above me in order to close it. I had just put down my book and was in this in-between...

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The Dharma of Alienation

Sometimes I walk around the East Village in the evenings after work and see all the young people my age strolling around with their lovers, groups of friends chatting happily in cafés, cute guys...

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Use Your Non-dominant Hand

First off, let me apologize – my intention is to do this every week, but work has been challenging. Anyway – fresh start and all that.The first week’s mindfulness exercise was to use your non-dominant...

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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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Skyscrapers are the New Mountain Tops: How I Turn my Mind into a Monastery

 Recently I visited a very traditional Zen temple in the New York City area run by a monk who has spent most of his life living and practicing at a beautiful monastery tucked away high up on a...

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Am I Who I Think You Think I Am?

In the novel I'm currently reading, the protagonist has to go through An Ordeal, one of the tests that's required to fulfill the hero trope. In this story, a work of magical realism in which existence...

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Dharma Connect: Meditation Brings Space to George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos, host of Good Morning America, started meditating after hearing about the scientific benefits. He's been doing it every day for a couple of years now. Now he calls it a...

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Contemplation Station #6: Miass, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Is that copper I smell in the air? Or gold? No wait, it’s automobiles! Oh, it’s just the Man of Steel. Gross. What the heck is he doing in Miass, Chelyabinsk, Russia? read more

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Drinking Makes Me Feel

I break from routine imbibing to explore abstinence and its effects on my mind and body

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Full Catastrophe Tuesday: People Stress and Communication

When we practice metta for someone, can it have an effect ON that person?I spent the weekend reflecting on and practicing lovingkindness meditation (metta) at the IDP Immersion weekend, and this...

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Finding Mindfulness Through a Gnarly Bike Crash

Last week Brett Boyar’s post on this blog, titled “Use Your Non-Dominant Hand”, got me thinking about being more mindful about the tasks I do every day with my hands. As Brett described that week’s...

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Three Myths about Buddhism that Drive People away in Droves

 There's a lot of misinformation out there about what Buddhism is and what it isn't, which is very unfortunate since it's an incredible spiritual system that teaches us how to work with our minds so...

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Do What Makes You Happy

The Buddha lists discipline as one of the six paramitas, or transcendent actions, that help us move toward enlightenment. It's not one that most people are eager to talk about. Discipline brings up...

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"The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shantideva

The Way of the Bodhisattvais one of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, a loosely connected body of teachings and practices ranging from Japanese Zen Buddhism to the Vajrayana Buddhism of Tibet....

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American Buddhism, Card Games, and Truth

I have only ever given one religious teaching to my older daughter (currently a teenager).  She and I like to play cards.  If, after a game of cards, you asked us each to describe what had happened in...

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Touching Garbage Touches My Heart

A reading of the book 'One City' inspires me and my family to pick up garbage on the streets and changes the way I view what is ours and what is others read more

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