I'd had occasional glimpses of the selfless state, but they were few and far between. I was eager to pierce the illusion, drop delusions and live presently... But I needed a push.

6/12/12 6/12/12

Teenage Wisdom: on school, technology, and mindfulness.

5/30/12 5/30/12

32 flavors and then some.

5/29/12 5/29/12

Surviving as a Middle School Teacher, thanks to Service Learning.

5/16/12 5/16/12

Wise Concentration: Moving Away from Multitasking

5/9/12 5/9/12

Wise Mindfulness: Everything is in Constant Flux.

4/18/12 4/18/12

Wise Effort: Neither Slacking Nor Overachieving.

The Buddha taught that practice should be like a well-tuned string instrument. If the strings are too loose, they won’t play a sound. If they are too tight, they will break.

3/14/12 3/14/12

Wise Speech: True, Gentle, Helpful.

Buddha distilled his instructions on right speech down to a simple principle: “Say what is true and useful.”

3/8/12 3/8/12

Thoughts on #Kony2012

I admire the awareness-raising video of Invisible Children's KONY 2012 campaign. Curing this massive wound in central Africa is not going to be easy, and it's going to take more than video viewing, posturing and postering.

3/6/12 3/6/12

Wise Intention: Renunciation, Goodwill, Harmlessness

The Buddha explains right intention as threefold: the intention of renunciation, the intention of goodwill and the intention of harmlessness... as opposed to three parallel kinds of wrong intention, those governed by desire, ill will and harmfulness.