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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you’ve been following my tweet stream lately, you’ll see that I’ve become pretty obsessed with tea. A good friend of mine, earlier this year, invited me over to try “real tea.” At the time, I asked how real tea was different from the loose leaf tea I’d have at a coffeeshop or the tea [...]
“I teach a dharma which is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end.” – The Buddha I’ve written about the stages of insight leading up to the important spiritual event, which in the Theravada school of Buddhism is called stream-entry. In Zen it might be called kensho and in [...]
Every map that describes the territory of awakening will have its strengths and weaknesses. Maps, in general, are only as good as the map-makers who’ve made them. They are also only, and always, mental representations of a place which one must explore for themselves. No amount of studying an idea about what a place will [...]
Vincent Horn is a Buddhist Geek and digital innovator. In addition to being an experienced meditation practitioner, and teacher, Vincent co-founded the popular media company Buddhist Geeks where he currently serves as Chief Geek. His work focuses on the fusion of nascent technology and contemplative wisdom, and has been featured on the pages of Wired, Fast Company, Tricycle, and the Los Angeles Times. Along with his wife Emily, he makes his home in Boulder, Colorado—that is until the distinction between atoms and bits dissolves completely.
