We just heard that Publisher's Weekly named our book one of their Top 10 in religion and spirituality. This is a big deal for us, of course. Surprising, lovely. Also satisfying, delightful, and all the rest.
At the same time, I have to admit a kind emotional hesitancy about the whole thing.
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This blog started as a series of posts on meditation research and has morphed several times . . . what do you want to see next?
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What are we all doing, anyway, those of us who are trying to put the dharma and meditation at the very center of our days? Is it enough to just sit down with our legs crossed a whole lot? Or are these ancient forms, these lived identities of monastic and yogi, still vivid and necessary?
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My goodness.
I have been out of retreat for almost exactly a month. And what a month it's been.
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Dear Friends,
Happy New Year!
In thinking about my year I was just looking back over some of my blog posts, especially the little missives I wrote back in August as I was finishing my PhD and Devon and I were dissolving our life in Hawai’i.
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Hello Friends,
I’m fresh off retreat and back in the world and thinking of all of you out there in your generous and productive lives.
It’s quite a thing to spend three months alone in a cabin in the woods. And it’s quite a thing to then come down the mountain to all the asphalt and televisions and wireless earbuds.
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More and more I'm starting to worry that the mindfulness movement is drifting away from me.
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