{"id":779,"date":"2009-08-31T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/08\/best-buddhism-and-meditation-websiteever.html"},"modified":"2009-08-31T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:02:50","slug":"best-buddhism-and-meditation-websiteever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/best-buddhism-and-meditation-websiteever.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Buddhism and Meditation Website&#8230;Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, of course that&#8217;s sort of a silly thing to say. That&#8217;s like saying <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/07\/freedom-from-religion-buddhism-wins-best-religion-in-the-world-award.html\">Buddhism is the World&#8217;s Best Religion<\/a>. Who would ever make such a claim? But the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theidproject.org\/\">Interdependence Project<\/a> website is pretty great. Lots to check out about <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/events\/2009\/09\/16\/10-week-buddhism-study-course-ethan-nichtern-sharon-salzberg-acharya-hayashi\">Buddhism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/newtomeditation\">meditation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/group\/idp-prison-project-group\">integral activism<\/a>, mindful <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/department\/arts\">arts<\/a>, and our great <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=286040275\">Buddhism podcast<\/a> and videos, and of course, links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\">One City Blog<\/a> on Beliefnet. This definitely isn&#8217;t your grandma&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mockingbird.creighton.edu\/english\/worldlit\/wldocs\/churchill\/japan.htm\">Buddhist website<\/a> (how much is wrong with that statement?). Check it out, and get on our <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/mailinglist\">email list<\/a>. Oh, and if you like our blog and organization, consider making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theidproject.org\/donate\">donation<\/a>, because we haven&#8217;t quite finished paying for it yet. Stay tuned for more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"logo_250.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/logo_250.gif\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"268\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, of course that&#8217;s sort of a silly thing to say. That&#8217;s like saying Buddhism is the World&#8217;s Best Religion. Who would ever make such a claim? But the new Interdependence Project website is pretty great. Lots to check out about Buddhism, meditation, integral activism, mindful arts, and our great Buddhism podcast and videos, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media","category-buddhism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best Buddhism and Meditation Website...Ever! - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/best-buddhism-and-meditation-websiteever.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Buddhism and Meditation Website...Ever! - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, of course that&#8217;s sort of a silly thing to say. 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