Everything Changes

Zen teacher Lewis Richmond tells the story of hearing Shunryu Suzuki sum up Buddhism in two words. Suzuki had just finished giving a talk to a group of Zen students when someone in the audience said, “You’ve been talking about Buddhism for nearly an hour, and I haven’t been able to understand a thing you […]

NYT: Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention

We’ve written about the yoga benefits for coders and programmers and here’s an excerpt of another interesting article about mindfulness and benefits. Mr. Gordhamer started Wisdom 2.0 in 2009 to examine how we can live with technology without it swallowing us whole. The wait lists for his panel talks and conferences now run into the hundreds. The […]

1/6 Art: Vincent Van Gogh, Flower Beds in Holland, 1883

7/24 Art: Bob Marley Live at Santa Barbara

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”