“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” -- Ernest...
Is it blasphemous to compare His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Stan, my cardio dance instructor? When I was making the two-hour trek home after seeing the Dalai Lama speak several weeks ago,...
"Food fight!" -- Bluto, National Lampoon's Animal House I don't know why I didn't make the connection between my 14-year-old son Jacob and Bluto sooner. There were certainly plenty of...
I'm still figuring out what this blog is "about." I started it as a venue to hash out ideas for my book in progress, Feng Shui Animal House: Raking Sand in the Midst of the Chaos. I like...
Am I the only one out there who lost a week in November? Thanksgiving seems freakishly early this year, as does everything else connected to the holidays. I need all the help I can get...
"A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating."...
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Do you remember taking those swimming tests when you were...
I posted my last blog just before Hurricane Sandy's arrival. I apologize. Reading about meditation equipment, or probably anything related to meditating, is totally boring in comparison to...
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -- Henry Ford I have tried and failed at meditating more times than I can count. This time I'm beginning...
In my last post, Why Learning to Meditate is Like Learning to Run, I noted that I had never managed to make room in my life for regular meditation sessions. Like most people, I would go...
"To me, the relationship between meditation and running is natural, for one is a training of the mind and another is a training of the body." -- Sakyong Mipham My recent post "Awakening...
I was so relieved to hear straight from the mouth of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism that it's not about religion. I had already heard this message from Eckhart Tolle in his...