Replacing Addiction with Compassion

Starting Friday, June 12, Tommy Rosen hosts Recovery 2.0 Move Beyond Addiction Conference,  Tommy brings new voices and practices to the work of recovery from addiction. What he says is very much what Gelek Rinpoche says below: the opposite of a life of addiction is not just “abstinence” per se, but compassion and connection to a community of people. Recovery… Read More Replacing Addiction with Compassion

Beauty of the Chai Stand

Reblogged from https://www.pacsafe.com/blog/beauty-of-the-chai-stand/ Please visit Pacsafe for great stories and products for travel. Posted by Bryan Schatz+ on March 9, 2012 at 7:00 am [kshishtof]/[iStock]/Thinkstock Some people go to India for spiritual rejuvenation. They go there to meditate and do yoga and generally get all blissed out, viewing the country as a pure place to put the mind… Read More Beauty of the Chai Stand

Distillations from Stephen Jenkins’ “Circle of Compassion”

by Shaun Bartone I read through Stephen Jenkins’ Ph.D. dissertation, “The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuna in Indian Buddhist Literature.” It was his thesis for a Ph.D. in Religion from Harvard University. Dr. Jenkins is Chair of the Dept. of Religion at Humboldt State University in California. His dissertation is available online… Read More Distillations from Stephen Jenkins’ “Circle of Compassion”

Yo, Ginsberg

Word up, man. Image: Allen Ginsberg in New York City, 1953, taken by William S. Burroughs Buddhism’s Radical Contribution The central philosophy [of Buddhism] is compassion rather than the Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest. The central notion is giving your space rather than clinging to your space and making it secure. It seems to… Read More Yo, Ginsberg