Want a Good Laugh?

The above was created by a mindfulness colleague of mine, Professor Marcello Spinella.

If you want another good laugh, check out this video (courtesy of Har-Prakash Khalsa's Expand-Contract YouTube channel).

International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering 2015

I just got back from the International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering. The whole conference totally rocked. I got to reconnect with a bunch of old friends and make a lot of new ones. Also came away with a much better idea of trending issues within the Buddhist community.

Here are a couple of pics taken of me with some totally awesome people.

(From Left to Right) Johann Robbins, James Maskalyk, Har-Prakash Khalsa, Stephanie Nash, Shinzen Young, Nina La Rosa, Blake Ashley, Jeff Warren, Danny Morris, Polly Young-Eisendrath

(From Left to Right) Har-Prakash Khalsa, Loch Kelly, Santiago Jimenez, Culadasa, Shinzen Young, Daniel Ingram, Stephanie Nash. 

Shinzen and Culadasa

Again, Good Friday

As some of you may know, I look upon T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as a poetic manual for contemplative-based psycho-spiritual growth. Here are some things I've said about that:

• Good Friday (blogpost)
• Dissolution and T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" (video)
• The Hidden Spirituality of T.S. Eliot, (mp3s from a telephone seminar)
• Part 1 (1 hour 31 mins)
• Part 3 (1 hour 47 mins)

This morning, a student sent me this really cool link: http://jeremyirons.net/tag/four-quartets/.
It includes some UK scholars talking about the Four Quartets, followed by a great reading of it by Jeremy Irons. Enjoy.