Wendi L. Adamek

We humans have come up with many, many ways to cultivate a life of connection with something larger and longer-lived than ourselves, something to provide rudder and keel for our short voyages on the rough seas of embodied existence. That "something" may be a belief in the potential of humanity...

As I'm leaving London I'm taking a last look around, reflecting on the last four months and the transition to 2012. There are things I don't want to dwell on -- like the Mitt and Newt Show that dominated U.S. and, sadly, global media for way too long. And the...

I want to share something that one of my former students just wrote to me:

Milking cows is aerobic and slightly dangerous -- I jump the gutter and squeeze my body into the small spaces between these mamas, 1,300 pounds of dense flesh and hooves. Cows are an amazing combination...

I'm about to get on a plane to see my partner. We are about as far apart as it is possible to be: He lives in London, and I'm in Sydney. We haven't seen each other in four months. Well, OK, we've seen each other virtually every day for four...

Like everyone else, I listened to Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address and was moved and awed. The stories of his spectacular inventions and reinventions from scratch, combined with his willingness to do battle with his own failures, death and even Microsoft -- this is a paradigmatic...

People mobilize around simple, compelling things: an image, a story, an idea. My sister sent me a YouTube clip showing the flashmob meditators on Wall Street.

The image: the meditators are a medley of ages, colors, fashion preferences and meditation styles.

The story: they are all...

I'm starting to explore Sydney and its Down Under September spring. Walking back along Glebe Pt. Road, passing a perfect little garden with a cherry tree in bloom, I was hit with one of those confusing waves of joy and pain... The cool air and classic crisp blossoms woke up...

Master Wuzhu is your typical Zen Master: he reads minds, hides himself away in inaccessible mountains and tells earthy stories. Most importantly, he jettisons all conventional religious practices, and he did this about twelve hundred years before Alan Watts, Esalen or MBSR. What makes him unique in the annals of...