Numinous Nonsense

The Scholar-Practitioner - A Conversation with Judith Simmer-Brown

This week on Buddhist Geeks we aired the 1st part of a conversation that I recorded with Buddhist teacher Judith Simmer-Brown. Judith teaches graduate courses at Naropa, and I was fortunate enough to take a class with her my last semester there. The class was on The First Turning of Buddhism, specifically focusing [...]

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The Nascent Edge

nascent - Beginning to exist or develop; Coming into existence; emerging The Nascent Edge is my attempt at creating a more lively expression to supplant the common common phrases like, “leading edge”, “cutting edge”, “bleeding edge” or even “frothy edge”. While I can’t fully take the credit for this phrase (it does have a couple [...]

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What do Pepperoni Pizza and E. Coli Have in Common?

[This post was cross-posted from Shoot the Fruit, the official blog of Falling Fruit] Most of the time I have a fairly healthy lunch at work. It’s hard not to when most everyone at work are full-out “health freaks.” Our audio engineer Charles recently lamented over bringing in Root Beer, and admitted that he [...]

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Is Falling Fruit tv the beginning of Web 4.0?

Um, probably not, but we still think it’s cool! Falling Fruit tv is the project that I’ve been working on the past several months full-time. The idea behind Falling Fruit evolved out of the netcast Buddhist Geeks, and involves having a complete network of netcasts that touch on similarly interesting topics. When [...]

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Tashi Gomang Stupa

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tashi Gomang Stupa, originally uploaded by vincenthorn. We ended up driving up into the mountains above Crestone this morning, passing several retreat centers (several Tibetan centers, the Crestone Mountain Zen Center, and some sort of Hindu [...]

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No Expectation & No Arrival

Lately, the practice of meditation (and really in every activity) has become quite subtle. There is a sense of an empty watcher or witness simply observing the birth and death of identity. The watcher turns back in on itself at times, but mostly it is simply resting in the empty flow of reality, [...]

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