I gave this talk a few weeks ago for the Interdependence Project, a wonderful grassroots, community-oriented non-profit “dedicated to teaching the insights of meditation and applying the truth of interconnectedness to life in the 21st-century world. ”

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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Basically, the practice of sitting meditation doesn’t really help a great deal, yet it stirs up a lot of things. A lot of chaos, problems, and confusion begin to come up–as well as some kind of gentleness and understanding. So it seems to be okay, as long as you are not in a […]

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Buddhist Dog Prays for Snack.

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I’m really excited that my website is being redesigned. Right now this site is just a super-stuffed blog that I designed myself including the header which, although cheerful, is not quite right.
Any suggestions of stuff you’d like to see/be able to do, please let me know.
The wonderful Melanie Lowe is doing the design to make […]

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LISTEN, ABUSHRI”
by Dza Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887)
Translated by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
You who enjoy the union of bliss and emptiness
Seated motionless on the lunar disc
Above a beautiful hundred petalled flower
Radiant with white light,
I pay homage to you the Divine Guru, Vajrasattva.
Listen, Abushri
You miserable, daydreaming fool,
You remember how delusions
Confused you in the past?
Watch out for delusions in […]

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Goodbye Snickers, goodbye Staples, and goodbye UPS. The Chinese takeover and abuse of Tibet and Tibetans is tormenting me. Not to mention the situation in Darfur. I feel so helpless. It’s the least I can do. You could do it too if you felt so moved. Please try.
Here is a complete list of corporate sponsors.

I’m […]

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Did I ever mention that I’ve basically been kind of sick for the last two years? Not like sick in the head, but regular sick, sick-sick. I never really blogged about it because for whatever reason I thought it would be embarrassing or make me feel worse. Plus I wanted to be all super-woman and […]

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Here’s mine, in this month’s

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