idp blog

well it was fun to blog on beliefnet for awhile — even though they’re owned by Ruport Murdock — but the interdependence project blog has now left the news corp building.

the new version of the interdependence project blog is on their theidproject.org web site.

and now anyone can post to it… it’s setup such that you too can create an account and write for it, and then the site moderators can promote great articles to the front page. it’s a somewhat democratic blog design. cool, eh?

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cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is not just a good idea, it’s the dharma… at least in the Shambhala dharma we say you could “cheer up” now and then.

Little Secrets. Music Video. from Tim on Vimeo.

alan watts autotuned

bill schwartz on dying

Bill Schwartz is planning his funeral and taking suggestions on twitter, then writing about it on elephant:
samsara sucks even if you enjoy it

thank you, bill.

Mindsight

Author Daniel Siegel talks about education and self-reflexive awareness training in school, at a ted talk three months ago.

Generation distraction

my next blog post should be live on onecity later today, about a recent study released showing greatly increased media usage by kids under-18 in America.

A year to live

my plan for 2010 is to visualize that i’m dying, and that i have only one year left to live. this is a contemplative exercise, and an opportunity for me to work with fear more directly.

i may journal on this blog from time to time about it.

i’m not really dying. don’t worry. this is just an exercise, which i described first here:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/onecity/2010/01/a-year-to-live.html

i’ll take care of myself in this process, and only engage with it insofar as it feels like a spiritual practice and growth process. if you’d like to be involved in this with me though please let me know. i’m inviting you to involve yourself if you’d like; if you think it would be valuable to you too. we could make it a group practice and compare notes, or i can just tell you more about how it unfolds.

happy new year

i’m still writing semi-regularly for one city. i posted something for new years here:

Another cycle begins

and some earlier posts:

Holiday spirit and pie

Every Buddhist household needs one

Medical Marijuana and Tantra

Enlightenment without retreat?

Letterman. Mitterand. What about your guru?

Finding a job, sitting in the woods

Envisioning a Dzong

Buddhism and Battlestar

hey, let’s party

this lousy world

from an Omega Institute program. She’s referring to a well quoted Shantideva passage, to cover your feet in leather instead of covering the whole world in leather. She has such a charming way of saying things.