Category: Religion

How We Meditate

After writing yesterday about why we meditate, I thought I’d follow up with how we meditate.

We’re All Cookie Dough

Some early practitioners did in fact dismiss “good works” as not terribly important, but I think that was, and is, a misreading of the Buddha’s teachings.

Metta for First-World Problems

Wisely, Buddhism teaches that in order to live with metta for others, we start with ourselves. How can we accept and love others if we don’t accept and love ourselves?

Blogometers

…stay tuned for more on Dzogchen and Lama Surya as well as other Buddhist disciplines and progressive approaches to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and spirituality in general.

Gratitude for My Teachers

…the teachers contributing the most to my spiritual growth were not people…. They were my personal tragedies, the mud from which my lotus has bloomed.

Sacred Spaces

“The moment I entered this sanctuary, I felt welcome.”

Jazz, Snow and Mindfulness

Driving in icy falling snow is a beautiful example of, and metaphor for, life and the importance of mindfulness.

The American Prosperity Gospel

…in the United States I think we are all blessed, or cursed, by strains of the Prosperity Gospel, the idea that our status, health and wealth come to us because God rewards the right faith and punishes those who lack it.

Words + Music = ???

I don’t believe in an external deity who watches over sparrows and me, but I do believe in a force that connects sparrows and me and everything else.