Here I go blogging a blog again…but this story melded so well with my last post that I just couldn’t resist: Via Wildmind, a story in the Australian Herald Sun entitled The Business of Meditation, about meditation and the corporate world. The title’s misleading in that the article is not about people making a business [...]
An interesting article at Miller-McCune describes recent psych studies that demonstrate how one’s sense of personal power is linked to how we perceive external threats. The less control one feels over one’s life, the more likely one is to perceive influence over one’s life coming from a single enemy. It boils down to how well [...]
David Brooks has an interesting piece about the emerging view of spirituality in the scientific community entitled Neural Buddhists in the New York Times. In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate. The real challenge is going to come from [...]
Here’s yet another great Google Tech Talk – Les Kaye on The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World, explaining how a spiritual practice (Buddhist meditation) serves to deepen and improve one’s life. This is what Western society needs – plain talk, practical, down-to-earth information on how to deal with our materialistic malaise, no [...]
Spring is definitely here – crocus are exploding out of the ground faster than you can count ‘em. Our garden is showing numerous signs of life just in the past couple of days, as plants shake off their winter sleep and awaken to the sun again. The energy coming up is invigorating, inspiring, motivating, and [...]