Emerson’s essay “Circles” is a wonderful piece of dharmic writing.  The essay, a short twelve pages of meandering and profound prose, is a meditation on religion and time and the natural world.  In short, Emerson discusses a view of reality similar not only to the dharma but also and even more closely to what Ken…

“Confidence and vulnerability are the exact same thing” – Michael Carroll This week on the ID Project Podcast we have Part 1 of a very lively Guest Lecture by Michael Carroll.   Michael is author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader and speaks at length in this talk about and bringing mindfulness to the…

Photo courtesy of Kirsten FirmingerIn a new research article being published in this month’s Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Dr. Alan Kristal and colleagues found that people who eat mindfully (defined as those were aware of why they ate and stopped eating when full) are less likely to be obese. The actual article describes…

A Guest Post for the One City Blog by Vince Horn of Buddhist Geeks (Full Bio Below). It’s a very common and hip thing today to want to make Buddhism secular.  Many very worthwhile organizations and movements have this as their guiding premise.  One need only look at the work that Mind and Life Institute is doing…

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