Fierce Dandelions

There are a few good posts up that I want to highlight for you all. First off, over at the blog of our sangha's head teacher is a post ...

I've sometimes wondered if a pregnant ghost has come to haunt my body, it's bony shoulders poking at mine, as it's fat stomach p...

Working with people from all over the world, whose ideas and ways of living are often very different from my own, has definitely helped to j...

About a week ago, I noticed an overturned squirrel in the road, mouth and eyes wide open, but otherwise untouched. Maybe a heart attack vict...

I was meditating on the plaza where our Occupy protest is going on today, sitting next to the sign you see above. Next to me also sat the bo...

In an old issue of Shambhala Sun I stumbled upon, Zen teacher Joan Halifax Roshi is described by one of her students using the two title wor...

The second niyama discussed in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is santosha or contentment. The thinking is easy. In order to achieve great happi...