Tag: Buddhism

• Remembering Thich That Hanh

  Today I would like to pay respects to Thay. His books had a big impact on me when my mom started having them around the house in the mid 80’s, which was how I started to get interested in Buddhism. Thay gave me the Dharma name Great Patience of the Heart during a 3 week […]

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  January 22, 2022

  Buddhism

  Buddhism, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Diamond Sutra, Gender, Heart Sutra, Insight Meditation Center, Karl Marx, Larry Rosenberg, mental health, Patriarchy, Plum Village, Robert McNamara, Sutra On the Full Awareness of Breathing, Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vipassana, Zen

• The Core is Getting Soft.13: Trackball Runs Over Mouse

  People who are interested in gear like to thing big.  Big things, big bucks, big sounds, big….balls, implicitly. But sometimes it’s the little things that get used the most.  While working towards completing my new record with producer Scott Solter, a frequent theme of our conversations has been poking fun at gear hounds who elevate […]

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  November 24, 2014

  Music, The Core is Getting Soft, Work In Progress

  AC/DC, Buddhism, Digital vs. Analog, Eventide, Gaffer Tape, Logitech Trackball, Pro Tools, Scott Solter, Tchad Blake

• Studio Samsara

  I found this on Francis Prève‘s Facebook page.  To this I would add step 7, “I am awesome,” and then step 8, “Go back to step 1.”  Then it would be an even better representation of what I like to call “Studio samsara.” The Buddha used the term samsara to refer to the endless cycle […]

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  July 17, 2014

  Buddhism, Mental Health, Music, The Dharma

  Ajahn chah, Ardent Studios, Big Star, Buddhism, Chris Bell, Folk Implosion, Little League, Might Mighty Bosstones, Music, Nothing Can Hurt Me, Thanissara, The Dharma

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a […]

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• Impersonal Problems.1: Thanissara

  We’re used to thinking of problems as a word that goes hand in hand with “personal.”  Of course, there are problems in our professional lives.  But when we struggle with things that happen or come from outside of that realm, we tend to look at them as personal.  I’ve been interested in several articles I […]

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  February 22, 2014

  Buddhism, Impersonal Problems, Mental Health, Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, The Dharma, Uncategorized

  Andrew Cyrille, Buddhism, Colonialism, Dharmagiri, Empire, History, Music, New York Dolls, South Africa, Thanissara, The Dharma, The Necks

• The Core is Getting Soft.9: Ring my Bell

  For many years now, I have been using software in my meditation practice.  In Buddhist meditation, we traditionally open and close each sitting by ringing a bell three times.  One is instructed to follow the sound waves until they subside, providing a gradual transition in and out of the silent state of awareness.  In today’s […]

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  January 20, 2014

  Buddhism, The Core is Getting Soft, The Dharma, Wisecracks

  Buddhism, Digital vs. Analog, Plug Ins, software reviews, The Core is Getting Soft, The Dharma, Wisecracks

• R.I.P., M.C.A.2: More Than a Feeling

  I wrote a post on Adam Yauch’s passing in August of 2012 that I thought at the time would be the first in a series on posts on the ironies and interests of the intersection of rock and hip hop with the dharma, but never got around to continuing with it. I pick up the […]

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  January 5, 2014

  Buddhism, RIP MCA, Series of posts, The Dharma

  Ajahn Sumedho, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Daniel Johnston, MCA, Music, The Dharma, Tricylce Magazine, Vipassana, Wole Soyinka, Yo La Tengo

• R.I.P., MCA.1

  I’d like to express my respect for the late MCA’s work by sharing some thoughts his passing brought to mind about an aspect of his life that many of referred to but few focus on at length, which is his interest in and practice of Buddhist teachings.  I didn’t learn about Buddhism from MCA, and […]

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  August 11, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts

  Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Eric Lott, Feminism, Folk Implosion, Food Justice, Mass Incarceration, MCA, Race, The Dharma