Mindful Eating: You Saw It Here First
Mindful eating has hit the New York Times! One of our sharp-eyed editors spied this article yesterday in the Dining and Wine section of the Gray Lady: “Mindful Eating as Food for Thought.” In it, Jeff…
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Buddha Buzz: Mindfulness for Doctors, Meditation’s Downfalls, and the Avian Flu
A sobering article out of the NY Times this week called “As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows.” From the article: Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to…
Buddha Buzz: Black Friday, Gray Mice, and White Wives
Black Friday is upon us. And as we’ve come to expect with the arrival of our favorite American holiday, there have been huge sales, massive crowds, and the trampling of workers and pregnant women. Actually, those…
Buddha Buzz: Zazen in a Bottle
Brad Warner’s blog, Hardcore Zen, recently highlighted this amazing product: I AM BLISS energy shots. I AM BLISS drinks (so blissful, they need capital letters), use a combination of chamomile flowers, passion flowers, lemon balm, and…
PHOTOS: BGR’s Walk to Feed the Hungry
Buddhist Global Relief hosted its second annual Walk to Feed the Hungry event in New York City last weekend. Bhante Buddharakkhita led a large group of walkers up and down a beautiful stretch of Riverside Park,…
The Brains of Buddhist Monks
Buddhism and the brain is a hot topic these days. Here’s a recent BBC News report on meditation and the brains of Buddhist monks: Dr Josipovic’s research is part of a larger effort better to understand…
Drepung Monks Bless New Jersey Hospital
via Phillyburbs.com, PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP – Tibetan monks visited the Deborah Heart and Lung Center on Thursday, blessing the hospital patients and staff through a colorful, musical chant. “It’s a very interesting and very unusual culture. ……
A Walk to Remember: A grandmother completes a 4,400 mile journey across the US
This morning several Tricycle staff members waded through un-plowed snow drifts from last night’s storm to meet Jeana Moore at the Northwest corner of Central Park. We were greeted by Jeana—wearing her trademark reflective yellow vest—and…
No more industry in the Buddha’s birthplace
The road to Lumbini, Nepal—the birthplace of the Buddha—is littered with industry. Cement companies, brick kilns, steel mills, and a paper mill all manufacture goods alongside the Bhairahawa-Lumbini highway, a stretch of land that falls within…
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