Excavating the Buddha’s birthplace
The Guardian reports that a team led by [Robin] Coningham, a professor of archaeology and pro-vice-chancellor at Durham University, had made a startling discovery about the date of
“[M]editation is simple not easy:” Reading Pearl of Great Price
This weekend I read Laurence Freeman’s lovely short book, Pearl of Great Price. The book takes a couple hours to get through, and it’s available as a free
“Christianity’s almost hidden meditative tradition”
Even though it's several years old, I highly recommend this Financial Times profile of Laurence Freeman, founder of the World Community for Christian Meditation, and his effort to
“It’s a religious ritual that even an atheist can love”
This evening I stumbled on this 2011 Tablet essay by Jennifer Bleyer about Sabbaths, digital and otherwise: But our greatest enjoyment was simply being suspended in a day
“Seeing the megarich take the stage to trumpet” the Buddha’s “practices is a bit jarring:” contemplative practice in Silicon Valley
Wired has a long piece about mindfulness in Silicon Valley, and its rather… complicated relationship between contemplative practice as religious practice, contemplative practice as form of self-optimization, and
Father’s Day
This year, after dealing with my daughter's graduation, two different traffic accidents (our car was hit by another last Monday, and a couple weeks before that my wife
“it’s a spiritual problem when we send out 150 tweets every hour and a half”
Richard Foster, in an interview with Shane Blackshear: The deepest discipline on the American scene today is silence, because we are absolutely consumed with insane babble.... I've made
“I don’t need to be controlled by the tyrannical upticks of email counts on my mobile devices”
John O'Keefe, writing in This Ignatian Life about going on retreat: Before I left, I turned off all my email and vowed not to check it for 7
Abraham Heschel on entertainment versus celebration
I argue in chapter 6 of my book that there's an important distinction between recreation and restoration, and that it's better for us to pursue the second rather than the first. This
“Why are they taking valuable teaching time from my child” to teach mindfulness?
A school mindfulness program in Ohio is shutting down after parents complain: The Tibetan bell no longer tolls at Warstler Elementary in Plain Township. The school had adopted a