Archives

• Buddhism is Apolitical? (Or, Stop Trying to Wiggle Out of the Damn Koan!)
• Coming off the grief ride
• HHDL undergoing treatment at Mayo Clinic USA
• Bad gurus article
• A few words on the passing of John Trudell
• Next top guru..LOL.
• On silence, states of exception and grace
• Monk
• Dhamma is light in the darkness
• An Interesting Read on Sam Harris’ BS
• Further Comments on Happiness
• A Review of The Promise of Happiness
• Rage and Grief
• Ghosts and Imagination
• Whoops
• Cyborg Buddha in the Age of Aquarius
• Daily Affirmations for the Revolutionary
• Community Health
• Some Things More Useful Than Earth Hour
• Reordering Reality
• Pointlessness of Unplugging
• Non-Buddhist Forum
• Cubist Emotions
• Thankas in Proportion
• Emotions Like Ghosts
• Note on Ideology
• The Frame
• River of Stars
• Valentine
• Last Words
• The Part and the Whole
• The Absurdity of Grief
• The Existential Wall
• Crashing on Shores of Significant Objects
• Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
• Come and Do Drawings With Me
• Selfish Solidarity
• Grief as Trauma Recovery
• Forgetting to Remember
• Stories Without Narrators
• The Pursuit of Grief
• Stupid Quotes About Grief and Some That Are Not So Stupid
• Future Histories and Other Fragments
• Somatic Experience of Grief
• Cathartic Moments
• Shunyata
• This is Not the Emptiness You’re Looking For
• Slipstreaming
• Worth Your Time
• A New Dystopia
• Directions
• Former Chinese Leader Hu Jintao to Face Charge of Genocide Against Tibetan People
• Responsibility
• Assembly Required
• Buddhist Exceptionalism
• Post Imports from Madhushala Blog
• On Modern Servitude
• Precisely the problem?
• Brad Warner’s “There is no God and He is Always With You”–an incomplete review, notes and rambling
• Open the meditation port…
• The Height and Breadth and Depth of Ignorance
• Musing on Creation
• Saving Yourself
• A Thing I Wrote for BPF
• Non-directed awareness
• Immersion and Comfort
• 8 minutes of Zen with Nam June Paik
• Not Good Enough <rant>
• On Trauma Counseling and Intra-generational PTSD
• Attention Economy
• I Wish You Great Heartbreak
• 4 dead in Ohio
• When the Voice Shakes–a meditation on courage
• Work at It!
• Comment on Burqas and Boobs
• Jesus was a death row prisoner
• Preserving Mongolian Manuscripts from All Kinds of Perils [additions]
• Sisters of Mercy-Gimme Shelter
• Flowers On the Wall
• Notes On the Reductionism of Quote Bots
• Emotional Policing
• MLK and Maladjustment
• Buddhist Book 2012:The Buddha’s Doctrine of Anatta
• Mindfulness and Ethics
• We Talked.
• Outrospection
• What can be said?
• Totally Enlightened
• Important article about PTSD
• Myoshinji disavows Eido Shimano
• Dances with Power
• The Fixer’s Manifesto
• The Narcissist Society by C. Lasch
• New York Assistance/Volunteer Contacts
• SOS New York Buddhists
• The necessity of emptiness
• DIY
• Superstars
• “being mindful of what you place in your gob”
• Comment on An Open Letter from the Buddhist Community on Islamophobia
• The Non-profit Related Posts
• ‘Zen Has No Morals’
• Time Shares on Buddha Mountain
• Off the Grid
• Let’s Just Make Sh*t Up To Forward a Buddhist Scented Agenda
• Raelians, Swastikas and You
• Culture is an Operating System
• HH Dalai Lama meets Aung San Suu Kyi, June 19 2012
• Tibetan Hip Hop
• Safe word
• Context
• Soap Opera Redux
• Who knew?
• Mindful war
• Compassion in the Attention Economy
• Let’s Burn All the Art!
• Perpetual Desire
• …how sea lions swim in cursive
• Learning From the Past
• The Necessity of Judas
• Nope.
• Qualifications, Ethics, Tricycle, Branding, etc.
• New Psychological Techniques for Your Group or Workplace
• A proposal
• Hand shadow art
• Two different things
• The Cult-She Sells Sanctuary (Tibet benefit)
• Ideas of Peace
• The Positivity Bias
• Satisfaction
• Buddhist monks held in India for defamation
• A Preface for the Buddhists
• Captcha – a meaningful story
• Not all Rolls Royce-driving tulkus…
• Buddhist or not.
• What if…?
• And we’re back…
• 24 hour protest of SOPA/PIPA
• People Have the Power
• Great Stuff About the End of the World: 2012 edition
• re-Occupying the Cabaret-Long Version
• re-Occupying the Cabaret-short version
• We All Play by the Same Rules or Not
• It’s a Joke!
• Traffic jams and the tea house at the end of the road
• Horse Latitudes and Other Strange Airless Places
• Capitalist rehab
• a dharma talk from Anonymous
• Buy your exotic baby here
• Words that Produce Silence
• Problem Solving With or Without Vodka
• Hard Core Stress Management
• A conversation overheard on the bus today
• This is not a Buddhist blog
• Where is Suffering?
• On the (Near) Death of Troy Davis
• European Ethnography
• Math, Stereotypes and the Gender Wars Mess
• I Am Now Officially Ordained…
• Quips & Quotes from the NewCitizenDharma™ Cook Book
• Being the Bad Guy
• Wikileaks, Raelians, Reincarnation and The Possibility of an Island
• Lovecraft Sex Ed.
• Regarding the Shimano Case
• A Bunch of Dystopias [book reviews]
• Consumer Culture Critique Collection-Buy It Now!
• The Slow Mood Manifesto
• Harris & Hedges:a Match Made in Heaven?
• E-prime
• Moral Credentials by Proxy
• Perfect Women in Chilly Climates
• A Thousand Cuts
• What Does it Mean to be You?
• Do Meditators Become Brain Dead?
• Steal This Book (or not)
• Better Put Your Kingdom Up for Sale
• There’s White and Then There’s Whiteness
• “…the way of Dhamma is implicitly called a burden”
• Read This
• Social Change, Choice and Free Will
• The Value of Intra-Faith Dialogue
• Brad’s Invitation was Lost in the Mail…or something like that.
• The New Improved Buddhist Council [now with more enzymes, lather and added vitamins]
• 2011 Global Peace Index
• Edge
• Brain Myths and Bad Science
• Pro-Life…and sorta Pro-Choice too
• Drawing P.Z. Myers Day
• Security and Paranoia
• The Alchemy of Theory
• On Osama bin Laden Death
• The Buddhist Blogger’s Crackpot Scale
• Monks for life?
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Sex and the Sangha: Out of Touch
• Leaving mythology behind
• Last gasps
• Blogging continues elsewhere
• Buddhist propaganda
• Buddhism everywhere…NOT
• Zen in Cuba
• …
• Privilege
• Sandmonkey’s blog post
• Poetry as an Instrument of Revolution
• Aung San Suu Kyi Supports Egypt Protesters
• Why I’ve spent the past 5 days staring at screens…
• Buddhist Blogs Discuss Egypt
• Media is the Mirage
• Al Jazeera English – Live Streams – Watch Now – Al Jazeera English
• People Have the Power
• Upcoming Blog Post or This Blog Post
• Buddhism and Film Mini-course
• Religion and Film Course
• Drunk on Words
• “Only a Crazy Person Would Do That”
• A New Year’s Message for the Drop-outs
• Geeki Sawaki-a profile
• Sex and the Sangha: Letters and Leadership [adds]
• SBC2010 Playlist
• About the Links
• Blogisattva BS Again
• Passing On the Blogisattva Award-an Open Letter to the Buddhist Blogging Community
• 2010: The Best Buddhist Book I Read This Year
• The Puzzle Ring
• Monkeys and Other Wild Things
• The Myth of the Wise Child
• Spin Cycle
• Dec 8
• We Don’t Need That Fascist Groove Thing
• Life as Story-but not quite so fast…
• Security
• Is Snark a Backlash Against the Happy Face?
• LET ME PUT IT ANOTHER WAY
• Western Buddhist Teachers-Activists in Everybody Else’s Backyard
• What the Future Holds-Part 1
• Is Compersion a Form of Sexual Mudita?
• CSI Buddhism
• All Consuming Anger
• A Deal on Ebooks
• Lacrimosa or Music for a Saturday Night Pity Party
• No Reason No Use
• Disinhibition With or Without the Internet
• Garbage as Commodity
• Mindful is as Mindful does
• Buddhist Mystery
• World Order, Mind Shift
• Doesn’t Make It True…
• Are Your Ideas Really Your Own?
• Connection
• Crazy Wisdom:a Bad Romance?
• _/|\_
• Varieties of Avidya
• Western Buddhism and Social Engagement
• Enso and the Empty Glass [poem]
• A Conversation About Engagement
• Blogging and Vanity [+ a NSFW video in case the post is boring]
• I’m Afraid of Americans
• Sex and the Sangha: The Abbot Resigns (but not quite yet)
• I&I
• Sex, Sin and Zen [a review]
• Attention Old Hippies!
• White Riot
• What Else Needs to be Banned in France?
• Sex and the Sangha: NYT report
• Untying the Knots of Existential Panic
• Something for the Yoga Folks
• Good Interview
• Listen to Henry Rollins Rather than Me
• Why I’m Tired of this Blog Right Now
• Is a Movie Just a Movie…?
• Do Preachy Vegans Exploit Animals?
• The Social Proof Mechanism
• Travels of Unreal and Real Monks
• Crap Detection 101 & Other Things
• The Official Himalayan Masters
• The Home of Your Own Being
• Social Nicening
• On the Last Days of Robert Aitken Roshi
• Aloha Aitken Roshi………Thanks
• Sex and the Sangha:Previously Unpublished Article
• Zizek’s Cultural Capitalism, Trungpa’s Concept of Idiot Compassion and Lifestyle Activists Massaging Conscience
• Same/Different. A Response to Daniel M. Ingram & Others
• Back to Suffragette City?
• The Mirror is Cracked
• Overdrive-a passing note
• Sex and the Sangha:Zen Studies Society Statement
• Cultural Trends vs Buddhist Objectives
• What J.G. Ballard Believes
• Sex and the Sangha:Update
• Genetic Diversity:a Green Heritage
• Wealth and Poverty
• The [Approximately] 32 Marks of a "Good" Buddhist
• Dialogue with Procrastination
• Hyper-Time
• How to Teach Dhamma
• Stepping Out of Self-Deception [a book review]
• The Balance Sheet [poem]
• Illusion, Truth and Bjork
• Chindogyu World and Egregores
• Heart-mind or That’s Understandable
• Create, Replicate or Consume?
• Blogisattvas
• Art, Buddhism and Passion
• Zen Boyfriends vs New Age Chicks
• The Paradox of Freedom
• All In [poem]
• Sex and the Sangha:Forgiveness, Retribution or Justice
• Joy of Cluelessness
• Northern Europeans Channel Abhidharma? [The Woo Files]
• Privacy
• Points of Reference
• Digression #3 Attempted Extrapolations as to the State of the Non-Suffering Conscious
• Digression #2 The Use of Study and Thinking or Back in the Real World
• Digression #1 Dealing with the Body Before the Mind
• The Sense of Consciousness
• Eat [recipes]
• Kalmykia Buddhists and Alien Abduction
• A Big Mistake
• Torma
• More More More More More on Idiocy [addendum]
• Manifestations of Idiot Compassion
• Society Reimagined or How I Spent Earth Day
• The New Complaint Department Page
• The Impossible
• To Whom It May Concern-An Open Letter to the Owner of Buddhism
• What’s Happened to Original Sin? It’s Become Unhealthy
• Karmapa’s Tour Canceled-additions Apr. 20, 2010 and Apr. 23, 2010
• The Third Step
• The "In" Crowd
• Verbs
• Transcript Practice
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 7 of 7 (transcript)
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 6 of 7 (transcript)
• Buddhism, Psychotherapy and a Little Bit of Woo
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 5 of 7 (transcript)
• A Philospher’s “Nirvana”
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 4 of 7 (transcript)
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 3 of 7 (transcript)
• A flash of fiction-Zen Fire
• A Saturday Night Flamenco Interlude
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 2 of 7 (Transcript)
• Man on Cloud Mountain-Shodo Harada Roshi-Segment 1 of 7 (Transcript)
• Dystopia
• March Miscellany
• The Idea of Light
• Buddhist Activists
• Pot Heads
• _____ ____ _____ ____
• devotion by Dani Shapiro [a review]
• Buddhism and the Romani
• The Virtue Olympics and Other Approaches to Conversation
• Some Interesting Folks on Twitter
• Conversations
• 4th Global Tonglen Practice Session
• A Bit of Writing at OneCity
• FLM: Hyperreality 1.0
• It Means Nothing to Me
• Two Notes
• Some Kind of Collage
• Suffering and Saetas
• Buddhism is…
• Two Shores of Zen and The Broken Buddha: comments on two books
• Wolf Moon – January 2010
• The Mocking of On-line Communication
• More on Invisible Women-Response to Comments
• More About Lists and Something About Jayarava’s Comment
• Zen, Olympics and Invisible Women
• Who Else Got the Letter from News Corp err I Mean Beliefnet? [updated]
• Stuck in the Now
• Lists
• Dharma Lessons from the DOD and the CIA
• Current Events 2010 01 15
• Lessons on Practice from the Martial Arts
• From Tanha to Dana-the Evolution of Buddhism on the Internet
• Practice in a Year From Now [guest post from Emily Breder]
• Current Events 2010 01 05
• Another Gift of Dharma
• The Gift of Dharma
• I Resolve…
• The Ugly Face of Commercial Pseudo-Buddhist Self-Help
• Whatever You Did for One
• Gratitude vs Gratification-a little Pali exercise
• Right Lifestyle
• General Blog Ramble and a Little Stardust
• China’s Disabled People’s Performing Arts Troupe
• Ven. Tenzin Palmo Makes a Statement Regarding Bhikkuni Ordination Controversy
• Dharma Wars-James Shaheen Responds to a Blogger
• 2009:The Best Buddhist Book I Read This Year
• Response to Jerry Kolber About One City Blog, NYC and Certain Attitudes
• New Forum and Zen Wiki for Home Practice
• Selected Works of David Loy
• Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret
• Six Degrees of Schadenfreude
• Luxury Propaganda
• Depersonalization vs Enlightenment
• Stand By Your Man
• Knowing Your Tea Kettle
• Selling Enlightenment- a guest post from Adam
• “Can’t we all just get along?” Maybe. Maybe not.
• Life Teachers: Claire Culhane and Ruth Morris
• Alternative Transportation
• James Joyce, Twitter, Clockwork Orange and the Lokavipatti Sutta
• A Comment on Dharma Wars:Ignoble Silence, Transcendental Egotism and Getting Straight with the Truth
• FLM:Factories of Bliss
• RANT ON/ CFC is a Big Self-Congratulatory Pile of…(now with even a bigger pile…additions)
• Search Koans?
• A Night of Mistakes (poem)
• Ajahn Brahm Expelled for Ordaining Nuns in Australia (Updated)
• I Am a Rock
• FLM: Dr. Feel-good and the Medicalization of Buddhism (with bonus book review of How to Become a Buddha in 5 Weeks-ouch)
• Literature in Translation-Japan
• Rumi’s Fields of Dreams, Wisdom and Ecstasy
• A Big Bang (or My Satori Porno)
• Comments on Brad Warner’s Blog
• Idealism vs Realism
• A Little Note About Divali
• Amerikan Tantriks:The Greedy Teaching the Needy
• So Long Uncle-ji
• Dialogue With Discouragement
• How to be an Avant-Garde Buddhist
• Things Are Not As They Appear and Frying Up Some Bear
• What’s With #6?
• Assets, Entanglements and Gratitude
• A Little More on the Bhutan Earthquake Situation
• Earthquake in Bhutan at 6.3 followed by Uttarakhand India state at 4.8
• Scholarship and Opinion or the Journal vs the Blog
• It’s My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To (or Not)
• Enough of Petulance and a Poem Maybe
• This and That Blahblahblah
• Patchwork Practice
• Would You Die for a "Philosophy"?
• Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac
• After Awakening What Then?
• Famous Koans/Utter Nonsense
• Today’s Speedbump Comic
• The Big Lies
• The Theory of I
• Action on the Health Care Debate even if you can’t get to Washington
• Chronicles of Practice 10
• Wheelchair Kamikaze
• Youth 4 Change
• To the Moon Alice-To the Moon
• Modern Vacation or Spiritual Tourism? -Walmart Campground
• How To Become Famous in a Few Easy Lessons
• Wisdom 2.0-a book review
• Tossing the Medicine Ball-On Debating Buddhism
• Engaged Buddhism Not Welcomed in Vietnam-Thich Nhat Hanh Followers Evicted
• A Mouthful of Cake
• How Privileged Are You?
• The Ultimate Desire Poll
• FLM: Cybernauts of the Transcendental Dimension
• FLM:Fear and Loathing in McBuddhaland
• A Flash of Fiction-Zen Bath
• They Call It Practice for a Reason
• Ready for My Close-up Mr. DeMille (and some advice for non-profits and job seekers)
• Inseparable Companions
• Garlands of Shame
• The Speed of Life
• Hey! Dharma Artists
• Two Sides of Dukkha:A Dialogue with Grief
• Two Sides of Dukkha:A Dialogue with Desire
• A Few Photos Published at the lens culture Buddha Project
• Comic from Rubes
• The Power of Poetry-Poem for the Rooftops of Iran
• Eight
• Poverty Porn, Dilettante Charity and a Holiday in Cambodia
• The Enlightenment Club-Updated
• Twittering for the Iranian People
• Science and Religion Make a Lousy Cocktail-A Response to Athena Andreadis and Barbara O’Brien etal
• A Dialogue with Cruelty
• You Know You Are Too Busy When…
• The Third Precept, Dangerous Sex and Gardening
• What of Tulkus? (updates)
• A Few Words of Caution
• Soft Rain and Laughter Coming From On High
• Habits Part 4
• Habits Part 3
• Habits Part 2
• The Rubic’s Cube of Facebook
• Habits
• Where is It? I Know it’s Here Somewhere!
• Response to James Ford’s post LIKE A FOOL…
• Chronicles of Buddhist Practice 9
• Escaping from the Self
• Seen in the Forest
• Yikes! Honest Scraps Makes a Visit Here
• Just a Little Bit Won’t Hurt
• The Blind Mule
• On High Beds and Their Inhabitants
• Acquire a New Hat, Go to the End of The Road and Take a 7 Day Journey
• Cultivating Chaos
• Grammatically Correct Buddhism
• Stupid Lovely Chickens
• Out My Window Today
• Why are Legitimate Religious Credentials Important?
• Look What I Didn’t Find-More Searching
• Our Collective Fictions and The Fruit of Karma
• An Ordinary Buddhist and the Basis of Faith
• Should Buddhists Dye Their Hair?
• 33 Poems About Sitting Instructions
• Water Which is Too Pure Has No Fish
• Monkeys on the Neighbors Roof
• Fight or Flight Responses During Meditation
• Right Speech, Denial and Lies
• Mom and Me Review Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate
• Sweet Dreams and Secular Gurus
• Chronicles of Buddhist Practice 8
• The Carnival of Thoughts
• Two Worlds, One Reality-A Valentine Poem
• This Arriving of the Universe-a poem
• Char Dham Yatra
• Blogroll Change and Policy of Inclusion for Those Listed as Teachers on this Blog
• Spiritual Tourism-Introduction and Some Practical Matters
• Learning Hindi Language
• Learning Tibetan Language
• Response to Gomyo
• Cosmic Drama
• Life Teachers-Re-Introduction
• Buddhist Craft Projects: Sweetie Mala
• Is it Dharma or Drama?-added notes for those keeping score
• Paper Dolls
• Chronicles of Personal Practice 7
• Spiritual Literacy, Blind Dates and a False Guru Test
• It’s Not Exactly Junk
• A Response to speedyortiz
• Buddha Images
• Smelly Cat Buddhism and Other New Improved Brands
• Searching for Something Else
• A Response to Soraj
• MetaBuddhaBlogging
• Chronicles of Personal Practice 6
• Buddhist Hit Parade
• Is That a Buddhist Cow in Your Stir-fry?
• Chronicles of Personal Practice 5
• The End of Time Moment
• The Buddhist Contest
• Crystal Buddha Fluffy Buddha Urban Buddha Hoodie Buddha Punk Buddha
• Karma Credits
• Just Say It! On The Edges of Compassion
• Small Acts of Engagement II
• Small Acts of Engagement I
• What Are You Really Searching For?
• Plug Into the Enlightenment Matrix
• 2008:The Best Buddhist Book I Read this Year
• Chronicles of Personal Practice 4
• Chronicles of Personal Practice 3
• Broken Malas Broken Superstitions
• Free Your Mind
• Snobbery in the Mud
• Fashionable Compassion
• Self-reflection and Rushing to Judgements
• Belief-O-Matic
• Life Teachers Introduction
• New Article at We Angry Buddhists-reprinted here
• Chronicles of Personal Practices 2
• Samsara My Friend
• Chronicles of Personal Practices 1
• Buddhist Drugs and the Emperor’s New Clothes
• The Buddhist Dope Show
• The Gift
• Waterproof Buddhists and Kung Fu Scuba Gear
• Exploitation or Contribution? Who’s Manipulating Your Karma?
• Important Not Important
• The Compassion Confusion
• Buddhist Dogs Answer Koans
• New Age Dysfunction and the Evolution of Anger
• I am not a Buddhamentalist
• Unbearable Heaviness of Being Buddhist
• Death takes a Holiday
• Celebrity Rehab and the Drug of Sensationalism
• How to do meditation and why?
• Thoughts on thoughts and their manifestation
• Karma Cola and a Tap Dancing Penguin
• Which Buddhism is Better?
• Buddhism and the Himalayas
• Why do I choose to live in India?
• The Reality Check
• A Visit to Mindrolling Monastery Dehra Dun India
• Poetry Conveying Buddhist Concepts
• New Buddhist Jargon #1