Archive for October 2012
Episode 140 :: Molly Hahn :: Buddha Doodles
Molly Hahn Professional artist and children’s book author Molly Hahn speaks with us today about the new release of her book Buddha Doodles Volume 2, combining art and practice, and finding ways to inspire others to grow past trauma. Transforming our lives is a benefit we enjoy from our practice. We learn to relate to…
Read MoreThe Buddha's Manifesto on Miracles and Revelation
The Kevaddha Sutta* (Dīgha Nikāya 11) opens with Kevaddha, a householder, who tells the Buddha that there are many potential converts to the Buddha dhamma living nearby in Nāḷandā. He suggests that the Buddha get one of his monks to use miracles to excite and amaze them. This would, he says, be sure to gain many…
Read MoreEpisode 139 :: Chris McKenna :: Bardo
Chris McKenna Author Chris McKenna speaks with us about his new Buddhist themed fiction book, Bardo. More and more, we’re seeing an increase in the mainstream media of Buddhist practices and ideas. There is Buddhist inspired rock and roll, art sites that focus on Buddhist themes, and happily for those of us who are avid…
Read MoreScenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: Experience
This is the final installment of four. Here are links to the first, second, and third part. It was 6 a.m. on the first morning of the retreat, and after a restless night’s sleep I was sitting on a wooden bench before a still farm pond, examining again my intention for being there. For several…
Read MoreScenes from a Mindfulness Retreat: Ritual
Here are links to Part One and Part Two. One of the things I’ve admired about the Friday night drop in mindfulness sessions at the UW Health Integrative Medicine Center is the creativity displayed by the teachers in developing rituals, symbolic objects and activities that help to express the wisdom of practice. There is no…
Read MoreEpisode 138 :: Brad Warner :: Hardcore Zen Strikes Again
Brad Warner Zen teacher Brad Warner speaks with us about his new book, Hardcore Zen Strikes Again. Zen stories are filled with teachers doing odd things. Their behaviors, their words, can often rub people the wrong way as the softness of social constraint gives way to pointing out the realities we often lose sight of,…
Read MoreBook Review: Donald Lopez on Buddhism and Science
With The Scientific Buddha, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, has written a book that should be of interest to anyone who finds affinities between Buddhism and the sciences. The book is a reworked series of Terry Lectures that Lopez gave at Yale University in…
Read MoreThe Burden of Proof
From the QualiaSoup series of videos, this is a terrific examination of the concept of The Burden of Proof.
Read MoreCritical Thinking
From the QualiaSoup series of videos, this is a terrific examination of Critical Thinking.
Read MoreOpen Mindedness
From the QualiaSoup series of videos, this is a terrific examination of the concept of Open Mindedness.
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