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Calling spiritually-inclined parents and members of mixed faith households: You’ll be interested in an article I just wrote for Beliefnet’s “Spiritual Parenting Week” package. They called it “A Christian Mom Makes a Bar Mitzvah,” and it’s about how I have raised my sons in my husband’s faith. Here’s the beginning of the piece: It’s a…

Out of last month’s Virginia Tech shootings comes the call for “pure bliss consciousness,” or more precisely, the teaching of a meditation method that can help young people believe in themselves, and stand up for non-violence. Filmmaker David Lynch planned a very compelling press conference today, and aired it on the web, to discuss his…

The New York Times magazine published an amusing exchange between interviewer Deborah Solomon and Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons yesterday that points to the general public’s confusion about the difference between meditation and relaxation (just doing something pleasurable). When Solomon says in the interview that Simmons’ book “Do You! 12 Laws to Access the…

I always think that sleeping is in a way a “small death.” Hence every night we face a “small death;” all these small deaths train us for the “big death,” and we thereby gain knowledge of how to die. –excerpted from a teaching on sleep by the Venerable Gedun Tharchin, a Lharampa Geshe from Ganden…
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