Robert Thurman was ordained in 1964, the first American Buddhist monk of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He studied with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, who became a close friend. He is currently Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and incidentally father to movie star, Uma Thurman. In this clip, Thurman discusses the … [Read more…]
Check out this article from the New York Times that says: Studies have found that meditation helps prevent the recurrence of depression, perhaps by producing changes in parts of the brain associated with learning and anxiety. A new study suggests that meditation may modulate brain waves called alpha rhythms, which help regulate the transmission of … [Read more…]
Sitting meditation in the mountains near Boulder Colorado.
In his book “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, Chogyam Trungpa, founder of Shambhala Buddhism, describes Spiritual Materialism as mistakes that practitioners make in using their spiritual practice to build or strengthen their sense of ego and identity rather than break them down. As the Wikipedia article puts it, “this is based on the idea that ego … [Read more…]