How big is your body? It’s big as the whole universe or small like the nucleus of an atom, and everything in between. ~Shinzen Young Many of you who are regular readers of this blog (and those who follow my tweets) know by now that I’m a big fan of Shinzen Young. I just love [...]
I posted a comment on my geeky Buddhist friend’s guest post on One City: Secularizing Buddhism–Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots? The comment was long enough that I think it warrants a blog post. So here it is. Vince, i share your concerns in not throwing the Buddhist baby with the secular bathwater i [...]
Last week I attended a two-day weekend retreat led by Sharon Salzberg at Nalanda West via Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS). The theme for the weekend was “fierce compassion”. It was my first time to attend a two-day retreat. It was also my first time to sit with one of the pioneers who popularized vipassana [...]