
Magazine Meditation & Practice
“Minefulness”: A Case Study
The ego can convert anything to its own use—even spiritual practice.
The ego can convert anything to its own use—even spiritual practice.
Is smoking cigarettes un-Buddhist?
If our practice is not about being present but being better, we’re misusing meditation.
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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness, Even if you are against the materialism of society and you do not want to support it, refusing to work is still grasping at the wrong end of the stick. Not taking part in work and practical activity is not going […]
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness, In working with others, the approach of genuine spirituality is to just do it, just help. If you are relating to others unskillfully, you’ll be pushed back. A direct message is always there. If you are relating with things directly, there […]
When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you […]
Last week I took a trip to Colorado and while I was there I was able to visit the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya at Shambhala Mountain Center, the largest stupa in North America. Below are some pictures I took during my visit. To learn more about the the Great Stupa, click here.
A 10-second history of the internet: First, there was a Big Bang (millions of individual little websites spewing out randomly into a vast virtual cosmos) followed by a Big Crunch (everybody slamming together onto social networking sites) then evolution (various websites fighting for survival and the top spot in a brutal Darwinian mess). In recent […]
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