The 4 Reminders
Last week, I had the opportunity to be with a loved one and her family while they experienced the death of their mother and wife. It was an incredibly sad but also very courageous and... More »
Last week, I had the opportunity to be with a loved one and her family while they experienced the death of their mother and wife. It was an incredibly sad but also very courageous and... More »
A visiting student said, "It seems to me that your teaching is sometimes contradictory. One time you say, ‘There is nothing to seek.' Then, at other times you say, ‘Arouse your determination to cease conceptualization.'... More »
Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 Exploring Compassion and Fearlessness at the End of Life Frank Ostaseski * Roshi Joan Halifax with special participation by Ann Marie McKelvey, LPCC, MCC (PCC) This retreat is... More »
Introduction: President Blacque Obammer's* speech in Cairo has been highly praised, mostly by people who haven't actually read it. Today, I will analyze some of Obammer's* text. For over three years, my contention has... More »
this is to note and celebrate penguin's publication this week of a new book by me, and in so doing invite forum members who wish to partake for free, thanks to interesting, unforseen turns of... More »
I've been fascinated with Eastern philosophy off and on since I was 18. Shintoism, Taoism, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. I read "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and "Peace is Every Step" in my thirties. And when... More »
Introduction Despite my resolute sense of the sacred nature of earthly existence, religious belief has yet to strike me as a particularly appropriate form of response to the presence of the holy. Belief is to... More »
Question : How does the view of ego development, looking at it from a psychological, social, and evolutionary perspective, having a phylogenetic and ontogenetic history, effect the way we might view ego assuming we... More »