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

would you sleep with your guru?

i just posted a short note about sex and dharma on the Interdependence Project and BeliefNet’s OneCity blog.

yes, this means i’m contributing to rupert murdoch’s empire…

splitting my blog

i’ve been blogging since april of 2003. and my interests have migrated but somewhat settled on three topics: design / professional, personal, and meditation related. but lately i’ve encountered some writers block, perhaps because those three categories are so disparate i don’t know who my audience might be for any given post.

focus? naw… let’s splinter instead into three blogs and subscribe to just the topics you’re actually interested in. if you stumbled here, use the tabs across the top to discover the other now separate blogs.

this site will host my thoughts on meditation and other meditation-related topics.