Recent Posts Tagged With 'modern life'

• Living the Whole-y Life (Part 2)

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 12:51 in reflections, modern life, meditation practice

  In my previous post I talked about my nascent exploration of relational practice and here I’d like to continue this thread and share some of my thinking about where this fits into a full modern life dedicated to awakening and its expression. Ha...

• Living the Whole-y Life (Part 1)

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 09:16 in reflections, modern life, meditation practice

  Earlier this year I talked about my intention to dedicate next year to formal practice.  And while my motivation and my urgency has not wavered, my life circumstances have done in that I have entered into a wonderful relationship with a wonderful la...

• Is the Buddha’s business model broken?

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 16:15 in business, sustainability, modern life, dana

  There is a quiet crisis in the insight meditation scene.  But since we’re all so awfully polite I have a concern that it’s not enough of a public conversation and one which boils down to this simple sentence: free is not sustainable. The...

• Unusual sources of Dhamma

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 01:23 in music, modern life

  I like surprises. Surfing YouTube this morning and remembering my former life as an indie rocker around 99/2000, I came back across Between Angels and Insects by US wannabe punk rap/rock/whatever band Papa Roach. Admittedly not a hugely memorable out...