The Dream-Over, the Rubin Museum’s sleep-over for grown-ups, returns after its sold-out debut! Make the Rubin Museum the place of your dreams. Come in your bedsocks and pajamas and sleep over at the Rubin Museum beneath a work of art selected just for you. Dream under the compassionate and wakeful gaze of a hundred buddhas. … [Read more…]
Contemporary Perspectives on Buddhist Ethics is a conference happening at Columbia University October 6th and 7th, 2011 in New York City. There is a focus throughout the conference on the integration of meditative (Buddhist) practice with western ideas and disciplines and the contributors will include Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Damien Keown, and Robert Thurman. The homepage of … [Read more…]
Today, I set my timer, sat down on my mat, dropped my gaze and my mind started to buzz. My body was steady and sweet but my mind, you might say, had other things on its mind. So I sat. Focus on the breath; clear the mind. Maybe I should write an email…Focus on the … [Read more…]
I have very often in life had an ideal of the things I WILL do when some other time comes. Once I get past this deadline, I will get 8 hours of sleep a night. After the holidays, I will get in shape. Next year, I’ll take that trip, lose ten pounds, stay in better … [Read more…]