My Birthday Post

October 27, 2011

Today I’m completing my 46th year and beginning my 47th, and I am reflective. I’m thinking of my mother, my father, my siblings, I’m thinking of loss, I’m thinking of my livelihood, I’m thinking of my finances, I’m thinking of the ways I keep backing away from myself, keeping myself away from my greatness. I’m [...]

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The Thank You Note Project

October 25, 2011

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! SIGN UP HERE TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN THE NEXT ROUND BEGINS: “A great deal of chaos occurs in this world because people don’t appreciate themselves and others.” -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche   Introducing my latest community experience! The Thank You Note Project is about appreciation. The Thank You Note Project begins November 3rd [...]

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How To Have Clear Vision In One Direct Step, or, How To Awaken.

September 29, 2011

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung view from my apartment in williamsburg looking south. iphone4 and cameraplus app        

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Do You Love Taking Photos With Your iPhone? The Photo Essay Project.

September 13, 2011

Calling all iPhone owners and writers! Announcing my latest community experience: The Photo Essay Project. START SEP 26, 2011 // 5 WEEKS // INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY INCLUDED If you love to take photos with your iPhone and you love to write, this course is for you! (Scroll down to find out how to win a free [...]

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Summer is Over: How to Restart Your Blog and Kickstart Your September Buddhist-Style.

September 6, 2011

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.” -Author Unknown. The last 3 months have been filled with lots of darkness for me. I have been engaging things within me that I have avoided for my entire life because even a whiff of them signified a depth [...]

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August Break

August 18, 2011

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Solitude, Time Away, and Possibly Loneliness.

July 28, 2011

It’s good to be quiet for awhile a couple times a year. Twice a year, for a month at a time, is ideal. Once in the winter and once in the summer. So here I go. I’ll post this Friday and then that will be it until the beginning of September, say the 6th or [...]

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The Happy Married Faces of Equal Rights.

July 27, 2011

A few of my favorite images from the first weekend of legal gay marriage in NY. All images from the AP wire.      

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Gentleness. Part 1.

July 26, 2011

“Gentleness is a state of remaining very soft and open and allowing tenderness to come into your heart.” -Trungpa Rinpoche I’m not talking about kittens and puppies and babies here. I’m not talking about cultivating that sort of gentleness. I’m talking about gentleness as the best response to those moments when you are between a [...]

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This Lousy World

July 25, 2011

Whenever I find myself in emotional pain, one of the things I do is watch this video. I hope it brings you the sort of refuge it always brings me. Breath by breath we walk the path with all its heartbreak and all its joy and in this way we cultivate our great good hearts. [...]

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