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Mad Men: Rejecting Advertising, Or, Don Draper Meets Acid Rock, Pop Buddhism, and an Independent Wife

William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012

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Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.

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PHOTOS: 50 Years Of San Francisco Zen

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.14.2012

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Fifty years ago, Buddhist Priest Suzuki Roshi founded a small Zen practice in San Francisco, inviting the lay people of the city to join him. Toda...

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Buddhism And Groundhog Day

Lewis Richmond | Posted 04.03.2012

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Ever since the movie Groundhog Day came out in the early '90s, many people, especially Buddhists, feel that the movie holds some kind of profound, existential message concerning spiritual practice and the spiritual path.

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Ecstatic Altruism: The Secret Contemplative Art And Science Of Tibet

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 02.04.2012

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What makes the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet more mysterious than the Buddhist traditions that gave us mindfulness and lovingkindness? This simple question has at least three right answers.

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Right Livelihood And The Zen Of Steve Jobs

Lama Surya Das | Posted 01.17.2012

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Some wonder exactly what kind of Buddhist could be so famously impatient, rude and demanding. How could he be so emotional, even throwing tantrums?

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Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons

Lewis Richmond | Posted 01.04.2012

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It's been about 50 years since the bulk of the Asian meditation masters arrived here. Many of us have spent our whole adult lives trying to practice and absorb what they taught us. S

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Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness

David Loy | Posted 12.11.2011

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In contemporary terms, our sense of being separate from others is a psychosocial construct, composed of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

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The Purpose Of Buddhist Meditation Is To Be Real

Lewis Richmond | Posted 11.26.2011

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Most religion, including Buddhism, offers an escape from reality, rather than a transforming insight about it. But Dharma is not like that. It is about what is true and real.

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Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous

Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell | Posted 11.22.2011

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The world we live in, and the very nature of our mind, push us to stay self-focused and self-protective. We are encouraged to widen our stance in the ...

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Zen Brain: Exploring The Connection Between Neuroscience And Meditation

Roshi Joan Halifax | Posted 11.17.2011

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Freedom from suffering can be found through realizing that the fundamental nature of our mental experience is ever-changing, interdependent and without any fixed, unchanging self at its core.

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Before There Was Stress Reduction, There Was No-Thought

Wendi L. Adamek | Posted 11.11.2011

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As Master Wuzhu puts it: "When there is true no-thought, no-thought itself is not." This "formless practice" immediately makes the everyday challenge of making distinctions and choices even more challenging.

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A Place For Doubt

Robert Buswell | Posted 11.09.2011

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In Buddhism, attachment to views is considered to be the root source of the disputes that separate one group from another and lead to conflict, a position certainly taken to the extreme by the 9/11 attackers.

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What Is The Future Buddhism In America?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.21.2012

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GARRISON, N.Y. -- Backed by the nation’s largest Buddhist magazines and meditation centers, a recent invite-only gathering at an old monastery in th...

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Sex, Sin & Zen: Brad Warner and the Lust for Enlightenment

James Rotondi | Posted 08.09.2011

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With bare-knuckle book titles like Hardcore Zen and Sit Down and Shut Up, author Brad Warner is not your hippie Aunt's idea of a tranquil, exotic spiritual master.

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Take Buddhism. Add Freud. And Then, Says Jeffrey Rubin, Flourish

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.08.2011

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Flourishing is not the same as happiness -- it doesn't always feel good. Sometimes flourishing is knowing I did the best I could.

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The Buddha's Teachings About The Soul

Lewis Richmond | Posted 07.27.2011

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The whole truth is not so simple. At the heart of the Buddha's teaching is something not graspable by intellect alone, not expressible in words alone, not comprehensible by logic alone.

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The Tao Of Enlightenment

William Horden | Posted 06.04.2011

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Taoism is, for all its esoteric roots, a practical philosophy of life, one in which enlightenment is not seen as an end unto itself but, rather, a naturally occurring state of profound harmony.

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Anything Can Happen At Any Time: Zen Lessons From Japan

James Baraz | Posted 06.01.2011

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A central tenet of existence is the truth of impermanence. Ultimately there is no stability in a constantly changing world. As one of my teachers puts it: "Anything can happen at any time."

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Should Shaolin Monks Be Asian? Just Ask Abbot Shi Yan Fan of Shaolin Temple Los Angeles

Stacey Nemour | Posted 11.17.2011

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Should Shaolin monks only be Asian? Can a Westerner ascend to the exalted level of an abbot? Venerable Abbot Shi Yan Fan of Shaolin Temple Los Angeles can answer that.

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Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Great works of art, which ideally should serve as symbols of human experience refined into culture, are gaining attention as symbols of the almost feudal inequalities that plague the world's distribution of wealth. We like to think of masterworks as "priceless" but as the world's economy teeters, more and more people are realizing that they have price tags.

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The Buddhist Way Of Being Present To Suffering

Bernie Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you venture out to remember society's forgotten people, and you do so with a spirit of presence and equanimity, you can experience deep fulfillment and wholeness.

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A Buddhist View: King's Compassion Still Among Us

Gustav Niebuhr | Posted 05.25.2011

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In our conversation, I asked Thich Nhat Hanh whether he regarded King, whom he had known, as a bodhisattva, an enlightened being. The monk responded with an unequivocal yes.

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Ushering Wellness: The Convergence Of Buddhism And Psychoanalysis

Pilar Jennings, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Buddhism and psychoanalysis have begun to cultivate a true partnership that seems to be ushering in wellness on a new scale.

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The Small Self: How Your Identity Constrains You

Mark Eckhardt | Posted 11.17.2011

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Imagine for a second what it would be like if you were free from constraints of the small self, identity, just for a few seconds. What would you do? What would you say? Who would you be?

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What The Buddha Might Say To Christine O'Donnell

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011

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When ignorance and ego-centeredness are displayed in such an overt way, it creates the perfect reason for this blog: the opportunity for us to develop ever-greater compassion.

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