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Tuesday June 30, 2009

Categories: Arts and Media

Rick Astley Dead? No, We've Been Rick-Rolled

Rumors of Rick Astley's Death are false, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, supposedly today has seen massive internet rumors of the deaths of George Clooney, Britney Spears, and others. Apparently Britney Spear's fake death was due to a hacked twitter account. I wish I was cool enough to have my twitter account hacked.

So, I know it's fun to spread rumors and all, but it isn't exactly right speech.

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A reminder to all the hackers and rumor spreaders:

Death is real.
It comes without warning.
This body will be a corpse.

Stop Rick-Rolling us! Impermanence does the job plenty.

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Filed Under: britney spears death, britney spears fake death, britney spears twitter hacked, buddhism, george clooney, meditation, Rick astley dead, rick astley death, right speech
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Monday June 29, 2009

Categories: Everybody Hurts, Interdependent Activism & Politics

Bernie Madoff's Sentencing Over - Good News?

You know Bernie Madoff, of course. The guy with the onomatopoeia for a name? The Madoff sentencing is now complete. Bernard Madoff is going to jail for an 150 year sentence for his $50 billion Ponzi Scheme. The list of Madoff victims is as vast as the sky, and mostly Jewish (why screw others when you can screw your own people?).

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Firstly, why don't they just convert it to a life sentence? Do they really think Madoff's going to make it to his early 220's?

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Filed Under: Bernard madoff, Bernie madoff, buddhism, compassion, madoff news, madoff victims, ponzi scheme
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Thursday June 25, 2009

Categories: Arts and Media, Everybody Hurts

Michael Jackson Dies After Possible Heart Attack

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson is Dead,  after going into cardiac arrest. Michael Jackson, like him or hate him, might be the biggest icon of Generation X. Ever. Everybody dies, even Michael Jackson dies. Death is real, it comes without warning, Michael Jackson's heart attack means his body is now a corpse. Strange enough when anyone dies. Stranger still, when a king dies. This is how I prefer to remember him:

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Filed Under: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson cardiac arrest, Michael Jackson cause of death, Michael Jackson dead, Michael Jackson dies, Michael Jackson Heart Attack, Michael Jackson's body
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Tuesday June 16, 2009

Categories: Buddhism, Everybody Hurts

Depression, Therapy, and Meditation, Revisited: Who Helps Us See the Truth?

So last month The New York Times published a controversial article on Zen by Chip Brown about a long-time practitioner of Zen meditation who came to the conclusion that his meditation practice was insufficient for working with his depression, and therefore he sought out therapy. Denise Abatemarco initiated a great discussion about the article here on the One City Blog.

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I have some thoughts on how therapy can augment one's meditation practice and study of Buddhist psychology (FYI, The Interdependence Project is hosting what is sure to be a wonderful Buddhism and Psychology series this summer, which you can listen along to wherever you are). Everyone gets depressed, whether clinically or just more occasionally, and to say that meditation practice is not suited to work with depression is pretty off, in my humble opinion. If our meditation practice is making you feel more and more alienated from your self, and causing you to supress anything at all in the name of peace of mind, then I think we need to reassess our understanding of what meditation is and how it is helpful.

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Filed Under: buddhism, buddhism and psychology, buddhist psychology, Chip Brown, guided meditation, New York Times, psychology, therapy, zen, zen meditation
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Monday June 8, 2009

Categories: Buddhism

Meditation Retreat! Deep Healing for The Non-Self

So this is my last day at work before I go on a 13-day meditation retreat at one of my favorite meditation centers in the universe, The Karme Choling Shambhala retreat center in Vermont, which this time of year should look just like a picturesque scene out of the Shire from Lord of the Rings.

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Filed Under: Buddhism, guided meditation, healing, Insight Meditation, Liv Tyler Zen, Lord of the Rings, meditation centers, Meditation Retreat, retreat center, self, Shambhala, Tibetan Buddhism, Viggo Mortensen
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Sunday June 7, 2009

Categories: Arts and Media, Everybody Hurts

The Search for David Carradine's Death Photo

The world continues to mourn one of the pseudo-masters of eastern spirituality, David Carradine, in our culture's peculiar way: we are dying to see the Carradine hanging photo. Thai Rath, a local paper, has supposedly published a Carradine death photo,...
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Filed Under: carradine hanging photo, david carradine death photo, eastern spirituality, Kill Bill, thai rath, thai rath carradine, thai rath newspaper, thairath carradine
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Sunday June 7, 2009

Categories: Buddhism

Is This The Next Dalai Lama?

Very interesting article today in the New York TImes about what will happen after His Holiness, the current Dalai Lama dies. One of his possible successors, The Karmapa, the young head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, is...
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Filed Under: Dalai Lama, His Holiness Dalai Lama, Karmapa, New York Times, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism
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Thursday June 4, 2009

Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics

Obama's Cairo Speech

If you want a good link to Obama's Cairo Speech, NPR has one. President Obama's Middle East Speech should, at the very least, demonstrate again that our 44th President is nothing like any U.S. President we've ever had. I mean...
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Filed Under: cairo university, npr, obama cairo speech, obama middle east speech, Obama speech to muslim world
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Thursday June 4, 2009

Categories: Everybody Hurts, Interdependent Activism & Politics

20 Years After Tiananmen Square

Chinese police have Tiananmen Square on virtual lockdown to prevent protests commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the student massacre there today. Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama also paid his respects to victims.(photo by Stuart Franklin Magnum, life.com)...
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Filed Under: Dalai Lama, June 4 1989, protests, tiananmen square, tiananmen square massacre
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Tuesday June 2, 2009

Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics

Obama Gives Nancy Reagan Love

Nancy Reagan got shown some love today from President Obama after a perceived diss regarding the former first lady and a strange attempted joke about her affinity for séance.I love sweet old ladies as much as the next polite late-generation-x...
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Filed Under: interdependence, nancy davis reagan, nancy reagan, obama, president, ronald reagan, séance
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Monday June 1, 2009

Categories: Buddhism

Reincarnation Lie? On the Empowerment of a Young Spaniard and the Tulku System of Tibet

This is interesting. The Dalai Lama empowered a young Spanish boy as an incarnate Lama. Now 24, the young man, Osel Hita Torres,is moving in another direction with his life (update on the Shambhala Sun blog). Lots of good questions...
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Monday June 1, 2009

Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics, Right Lifestyle

George Tiller, Abortion, and Compassion

So the abortion doctor from Wichita, Kansas, George Tiller was killed in church yesterday, by a pro-life radical (irony of ironies). Amazingly, this was not the first time Dr. Tiller was shot. So clearly Dr. Tiller believed in what he...
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