Numinous Nonsense

The Marriage of Buddhism and Science

There was a great comment on our recent conversation with B. Alan Wallace on BGeeks, by someone with a neuroscience degree and an interest in Buddhist practice. Here is what they had to say: As someone with a strong Buddhist background as well as a degree in neuroscience, I find it challenging when yogis see [...]

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Reframe America - A Phenomonal New Integral Blog

My friend Theo Horesh, who I met while attending an ongoing group in Boulder called “the philosophy gang” recently started blogging. His new blog, Reframe America, is an integral commentary and response to the domains of politics, philosophy, culture, business, and spirituality. More specifically… Reframe America seeks to reframe public discourse through the generation [...]

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Bright Young Hommie

My good buddy, and co-worker Duff McDuffee, is featured on Thrilling Heroics (a cool looking Gen Y focused leadership/business blog) in an interview entitled Bright Young Minds. The interview is actually quite good, and it provides a lot of clarity into Falling Fruit’s mission and vision, and why we are trying to be part of the [...]

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Buddhism & Youth - A Conversation with Diana Winston

This week on Buddhist Geeks we aired the final part of a series recorded with Insight Meditation teacher Diana Winston and our good friend Duff McDuffee. The conversation was primarily about Youth and Buddhism, a topic very close to my age heart. Diana is one of the younger insight teachers, a Gen Xer all the [...]

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Commemorating Black Tuesday

My buddy Paul S. blogged about an event that went down at I-I last year around this time, where several people quit. What he is calling Black Tuesday. I had already left I-I (only months earlier, actually) but I was glad I had: It was exactly one year ago today that I and nine [...]

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Modern Immortal

We launched a new show today, on the Falling Fruit network, called Modern Immortal. One of the hosts, Marco Lam, has been my acupuncturist for the past couple of years, and I really appreciate his skill as a health practitioner–I’d have to considering I’m letting him poke me with needles! The other host, [...]

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