I was recently at SXSW Interactive–a giant technology conference in...
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The Simple Act of Sitting
The act of sitting is really an amazing thing! At the simplest level, just as our ancestors have for tens of thousands of years, we sit down, on the ground, and we inhabit this position as a fellow human being. Sitting is one of the primary postures we take throughout the day, including (but not [...]
What is Buddhist Geeks?
Lately, I’ve been asking the question: What is Buddhist Geeks? Like every good question, each time I ask the answer changes. In the beginning the answer was, “It’s a podcast where we interview geeky Buddhists about things we don’t see being talked about anywhere else.” Recently, one of my close friends answered the question by [...]
Contemplation is Becoming an Information Technology
I was recently at SXSW Interactive–a giant technology conference in Austin, Texas–and sat in on a keynote by the famous technologist and author Ray Kurzweil. Although I’m fairly familiar with Kurzweil’s ideas, his said something new that really got me thinking about the future of contemplation. He pointed out that in 1995 we completed mapping [...]
Wired UK’s Smart List 2012
Last month my close friend and collaborator Rohan Gunatillake, were featured in a cover story for Wired magazine. The title of the piece is, The Smart List 2012: 50 people who are going to change the world. We were nominated by Jane McGonigal, an incredibly cool game designer that we interviewed last year, and who [...]
A Geek’s-Eye View of the Future of Spiritual Practice
Recently, I had the great pleasure of doing an extended interview with Terry Patten on his Beyond Awakening series. He invited me to share some of my perspectives on where the future of spiritual practice is heading–the so-called “geek’s-eye view”. We also explored questions to which there don’t seem to be clear cut answers yet [...]
Uniting Technology and Wisdom
I gave a talk on Friday evening at the Pacific Asia Art Museum on “Buddhist Geeks: Uniting Technology and Wisdom.” The talk was a broad look at the way that the development of global Buddhism and the exponential growth of information technology (particularly through the development of the personal computer and internet) are converging, and [...]
Buddhism and the Internet of Things
I was recently invited to participate in a panel at the upcoming SXSWi festival in Austin, Texas. SXSWi has been described to me as “geek spring break” and although I’ve wanted to go the last couple years I haven’t been able to make it. But this year I might, because I may on the panel, [...]
Look Ma, I’m in the Los Angeles Times!
Buddhist Geeks received a wonderful write-up last week in the Los Angeles Times. The article was entitled, “Buddhist wonks? No, Buddhist Geeks” Mitchell Landsberg, the author of the piece, joined us at the Buddhist Geeks Conference and afterwards we did an interview at the 18th St. Coffeeshop in Santa Monica. This coffeeshop is rumored to [...]
