Getting ready to leave Boulder and drive several hours north to Shambhala Mountain Center. Will be on meditation retreat until Aug 2. I wish it was longer. Very much so. I have enough clothes and snacks to last several months, that’s for sure. It feels like such a departure from everything ordinary that I try […]

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will be away july 22-aug 1 at shambhala mountain center. will be on meditation retreat with my teacher, sakyong mipham rinpoche. i’m so ridiculously excited and happy. may try to blog from there, but only intermittently if at all. it sounds crazy to say that involving yourself in spiritual practice from 7a to 9p every […]

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GTD is an amazing system for multi-leveled personal organization. There are three things I love about it:
It’s enormously intelligent
It shamelessly satisfies the inner geek
It produces spiritual benefits
It’s this last one that is so interesting. The system brings a sense of order, pleasure, and quietude– the intelligence that famously comes forth from disciplined use of […]

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Wrote this for The Worst Horse, a great, excellent site where dharma meets pop and vice versa:
Skillfully Savvy:
Susan Piver’s 8 Points for Selling the Dharma Without Selling It Out
We who work in the world of spirituality (or want to bring spirituality into the world of work) often think that if you focus too much on […]

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