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Happy Christmas

This has got to be the most bummer Christmas season I’ve experienced in gosh knows how many years. In the news it’s been all about cops getting acquitted of murder, the terrible state of race relations in America, or that whole bizarre publicity stunt Sony Pictures has been doing to make sure Seth Rogen’s new movie […]

The Newly Mindful Anderson Cooper

The Newly Mindful Anderson Cooper

My friend Valerie sent me a link to an on-line story called The Newly Mindful Anderson Cooper. If you’re one of my many readers outside of the US you’re probably as clueless as me about Anderson Cooper, since I don’t watch TV unless I’m visiting someone who has one switched on and I can’t get […]

Mindfulness and “Religion”

Last night at the weekly zazen thing in Silverlake (LA hipster ghetto) someone asked me about aspects of mindfulness that are present in non-Buddhist traditions. At first I didn’t understand the question, but we talked some more later and  I think I got it, so I’ll paraphrase. We we could use the word “mindfulness,” derived from the […]

Racism Isn’t the Problem

Racism isn’t the problem. Some people probably won’t read past the headline of this article before they start telling me that we don’t live in a post-racial world, that just because Barrack Obama is black doesn’t mean we’ve solved all our racial problems in America, that white privilege is real and all the rest of […]