More Musings on Why Spiritual Teachers Go Wrong
Today someone wrote me an email about some of the stuff I’ve said recently concerning the Noah Levine scandals. I wrote her a long email back. That email is reproduced below for your enjoyment. I won’t be talking about any of this in our forthcoming ZEN & YOGA RETREAT at Mt. Baldy, but I am obligated […]
Collective Karma?
Last week I wrote a piece about our forthcoming Zen and Yoga retreat at Mt. Baldy Zen Center April 5-7, 2019. Near the end of that piece I contrasted the things we talk about during lectures at our retreats with an announcement by the Brooklyn Zen Center about a forthcoming retreat called “Working with Collective […]
What a Zen Retreat Is and What It Is Not
The Angel City Zen Center will be holding a Zen and Yoga Retreat at Mt. Baldy Zen Center April 5-7, 2019. Please sign up now! While I was thinking about what to say to promote the retreat, I looked through my old blogs. I found a post from January, 2013, a few months before our […]
Noah Levine Tears Up His Certificate
Yesterday I watched a video on Facebook in which Noah Levine dramatically tore up the dharma teacher certificate he received from Spirit Rock. I’d provide a link to the video, but I’m too inept to figure out how. If you want to watch it for yourself go on Facebook, look up Noah Levine, then find […]
Guided Meditation and Crooked Cucumbers
When people request me to “lead meditation” what they often mean is that they want me to do a guided mediation. Guided meditation is all the rage these days. So much so that I often encounter people who have no idea that there is any other way to meditate. They are shocked when they come to […]
