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48% Increase in Hate
A bit of news from the Southern Poverty Law Center:
"Racism is a serious problem in America. We've identified 888 organized hate groups — a staggering 48% increase since 2000."
I still meet people that tell me that racism and other forms of hate are not a serious issue in the U.S. any more. ...>
Post-O-Soji
Another year, another bunch of resolutions no? Well, I started doing some mental O-Soji (Japanese end of year cleaning) early, and part of that process often brings me to WoodMoor Village. The fact is that WoodMoor Village has become much more than I ever intended. It has, true to things released in ...>
Mindfulness and AD/HD
An interesting story about the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and their work on Mindfulness and AD/HD. The gist of the story is the use of Mindfulness practice as a way to help those with AD/HD enhance their ability to pay attention and monitor their emotional states. Key to the medi ...>
Obstacles & Challenges to Practice
I recently sat down to list (ostensibly for the mindfulness group I’ve been developing on campus) what kind of obstacles we can experience in our practice. As I was putting these down it quickly became apparent that these are nothing but my own challenges to practice. All of them. Persistently. H ...>
New Study on Meditation & Attention
The New York Times has a report on a study, published yesterday in the journal PloS Biology, on how meditation can lead to "shift in how the brain allocates attention." The report, Study Suggests Meditation Can Help Train Attention, notes two rather intriguing things: a phenomena described as "atte ...>
Interconnection & Our Suffering
We held a vigil last night at our University, and these are remarks I read at the end to close off the ceremony. The ceremony was a neat example of ritualcrafting, put together by students, faculty, and staff members. We wanted to give an opportunity to members of the campus community to express the ...>
The Phenomenology of Cut and Paste
It is the strangest thing but I guess I should not be surprised. I've felt it for a long time now, but for some reason it just gained amazing presence in my mind: when I perform a cut operation on a text or image, with the intent of pasting it in a few moments onto another digital surface, I end up. ...>
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