Don't just skip over this, it's actually pretty funny ( Read more... )

Jerry Katz's edition of Issue #4045 of the Nonduality Highlights includes a really interesting dialogue about nonduality involving Deepak Chopra. Jerry introduces the exchange like this:As nonduality stands on the brink of a presence in major media, let's look at how Deepak Chopra addresses a question about why he has held back on delivering the ( Read more... )

From Issue #4042 of the Nonduality Highlights comes this extremely lucid burst from someone named Adi Vajra, who has a blog called Dharma Point:http://dharmapoint.blogspot.com/2010/08/non-duality-is-very-natural.html

Nonduality is Very Natural ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God.

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Turn it up really loud if you can. And try to sit completely still while listening and not move a muscle.

The Mark Otter-edited Issue #4017 of the Nonduality Highlights contains quite a lengthy selection from a talk by Pema Chödrön, the wonderful Tibetan Buddhist nun and senior student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The excerpt deals mostly with something called shenpa, which is usually translated as attachment, but which she imbues with a meaning ( Read more... )

My friend Jerry Katz has a very esoteric radio show on the university radio station called Nonduality Street, and this week he had me come in to do a live interview about nonduality and parenting, a topic on which I am unbelievably expert. (heh.) He describes the show and provides a link to the half-hour show here ( Read more... )

This is a pretty trippy experience. Plug in the address of your childhood (or current) home that can be mapped with Google Maps (and has been Streetviewed), and then sit back and watch the music video unfold with your home in it ( Read more... )

vision_serpent, one my LJ friends with the best musical taste, just hipped me to this track through his own journal. Cee Lo Green is probably most famous for his collab with Danger Mouse in 2006's summer smash by Gnarls Barkley called Crazy, but he has a solid musical history with various groups.

As pointed out by vision_serpent, the lyrics are hilarious and not safe for ( Read more... )

Chapter 7 of Roth's Women Food and God begins to deal with the practical application of her approach. She begins by outlining how the way we eat reveals what we truly believe about ourselves here on earth.In the moment that you reach for potato chips to avoid what you feel, you are effectively saying, "I have no choice but to numb myself. Some ( Read more... )

After a bit of digging in my LJ archives, I found that I last wrote about Geneen Roth nearly 4 years ago, probably after I'd been referred to her early book called Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by my psychotherapist. In that entry, I outlined Roth's so-called "eating guidelines" and also discussed an audio lecture series I'd been listening to ( Read more... )