Notes in Samsara

I had noted on this thread (whose topic I'd more directly addressed here ) that Tibet's history was not generally well known in the ...

Disclaimer: I didn't get any authority to teach anything. As usual, I'm using the translation at this link . Section XXXIV summ...

Nathan at Dangerous Harvests asks a good question about the Brit Hume/Tiger Woods affair ( thanks again Kyle ), and it's basically whet...

Besides "Brit Hume" is an anagram for "U Birth Me." Uh, just read what Kyle wrote .

All I can say is that Thich Nhat Hanh captures what I want to say...or at least generally how I feel ...thanks to Lin Chi/Linji... ... Som...

Buddhism beats depression ... A report I wrote for the Mental Health Foundation highlights the impressive clinical evidence for an approa...

You can watch it here. Note the similarity between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness, Vipassana, and Zen meditation practices. ...

Disclaimer: I didn't get any authority to teach anything. As usual, I'm using the translation at this link . Mahāmati asks the ...

I had only noted in passing the other day about the Brit Hume bit. Given the extent that it made a splash in my corner of the blogosphere, a...

While visiting Miao Fa Chan temple in Portland yesterday, I heard a rather intense American young man of European descent go on in a monolo...

Disclaimer: Please understand I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter . Nobody gave me any secret dec...

No, Mr. Hume, Tiger Woods' religion will probably help him . Who is Björk anyway ? Some singer, I'd guess. That said, I'm aga...

One or the ad links on this blog brings the usual suspects together to ask, "How does the spiritual path need to evolve to serve the e...

P.Z. Myers, in his trademark blasphemous way , brings to my attention the oddest patent infringement suit I've seen in weeks . What My...

NellaLou's post on the Holosync™ guy's coercive legal tactics has resulted in my thinking about my issues with whole issue of putt...

This has really been quite a difficult year for me personally; financially things were tight (and will probably continue to be tighter than ...

Via a comment from the inimitable Nella Lou at the inimitable gniz place I learned that not only does "Bill" Harris not like peo...

Thanks to gniz , I was motivated to read the transcript of the podcast where Merzel discusses "Big Mind" and it seems, Big Money, ...

Gniz also brings to my attention a couple of more Big Minders, one a skier , and one guy whose " main product is the InfoGuru Marketi...

The Buddhist Geeks, did that nice interview with Genpo Dennis Merzel , which enabled Gniz to consider Merzel's responses here . It turn...