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Dress Well or Go Home
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
A recent piece in the New York Times “The New Mantra: Replacing ‘Om’ With ‘Glam'” caught the attention of Tricylcle blogger, Emma Varvaloucas. She screamed “noooooooooooooooo.” In my book, Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness, I quoted Thoreau who said, “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of…
Happy Mindfulness Day 2012!
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
Today, 12 September, is Mindfulness Day. According to Wisdom Publications: “Mindfulness Day was created to share the power and benefits of mindfulness. So many people, in so many ways, have benefited from the techniques of mindfulness, it made sense to celebrate its benefits and elevate awareness on one special day. Whether you spend it in formal…
Mindfulness for Common Problems: Seven Things to Know About Anxiety
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
The first in this series focused on stress. Anxiety and stress are closely related. Anxiety is central to our threat detection system and stress helps us to mount responses to potential threats. Like stress, anxiety gets a bad rap. Our culture feeds us the idea that we must eradicate all adverse feelings in order to…
Is the Self a Metaphor? Come to the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Find Out
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Dr. Arnie Kozak
I will be conducting my annual workshop at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies the weekend of 17-19 February 2012. I’ll be teaching the Buddha’s dharma through metaphors. This summer I wrote an article for the BCBS online publication Full Moon Insight Journal where I explored the bold statement that what we regard as self…
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