My view was that meditation was only for hippies and freaks and people who live in a yurt, and are deeply into aroma therapy and ultimate frisbee and Cat Stevens and John Tesh and use little finger cymbals [symbols?] and use the word ‘namaste’ un-ironically Dan Harris from ABC News underwent a panic attack in … [Read more…]
We had a great sit in NYC in September. Here is a video of The Sitting Project public sit in Times Sq with Dharma Junkies. It was a profound experience to do a meditation there. As Joe Mauricio put it, we were “in the belly of the beast” which is all things amazing and difficult … [Read more…]
Want to be more effective at making money on Wall St or at being a better Samurai? Meditation can help –according to this article from Business Week. Maybe not the best motivation for meditating but hey, meditating is better than not. Right? RIGHT??? From Wall Street to Silicon Valley everybody is beginning to realize the … [Read more…]
Mindfulness Meditation – what we like to call just “sitting”- is reaching the mainstream here in the West. Part of its acceptance comes from the benefits that comes from the meditation itself and part of the acceptance comes from the western adaptation of meditation that is often secular in nature and does not inherently interfere … [Read more…]