Vincent Horn

[This is the 2nd part of a interview I did with New Zealand based teacher Peter Fernando. It appeared on his site A Month of Mindfulness.] Peter: So another question I have relates to what you call an ‘Open Source’ approach to meditation, where there is a freedom to draw from all kinds of practices. [...]

“I say vulnerable is woundable.” - The Guru Pitka So much of what I’ve been learning about lately is around vulnerability. Vulnerability in a psychological sense, of seeing my own limitations and being willing to acknowledge them. And also in a more cognitive and spiritual sense. The cognitive vulnerability has to do with dropping common [...]

[The following is an edited transcript from a recent exchange I had with a student in one of my pragmatic dharma classes online. I'm posting it here because it brings together several main themes that keep cropping up in how I'm teaching, which I find very important in approaching meditation practice from a pragmatic perspective.] [...]

I was recently interviewed by James Arnfinsen for his scandanavian podcast show Levevei, which translates as “way of life” or “profession” in english. The title of the episode is, “Creating change through informal learning communities.” Here’s a little description of the some of the stuff that we explored together, much of it being extremely geeky [...]

For many years I relied exclusively on a single technique of meditation: the noting method of vipassana. It’s a simple technique that I learned from one of my teachers, and was originally devised by a Burmese monk named Mahasi Sayadaw. In this technique you use a mental note (or label) to describe whatever it is [...]

From one perspective there is absolutely no need to practice. From another perspective, practice is essential. Why is it that both are true, and how do we keep from not deluding ourselves as to which is helpful at any given time? So, let’s take the first perspective, which we could call the non-dual perspective. In [...]

By the end of this month Emily and I will have moved across the country 3 times in less than a year! Our first move, last summer, was from Boulder, CO to Asheville, NC—both Emily and I are originally from small towns in the Appalachian mountains. That move was unsuccessful for a number of reasons-not [...]

I was recently asked to share some thoughts on the evolution of dharma & technology for a series on Evolutionary Landscapes. Here is a little excerpt from the original piece: As I look around I see the “digital” and “real” worlds are quickly converging, and the result is going to be a future that we [...]