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Recently I’ve been working with certain perennial questions. You know, those questions that come up again and again in life, ones that seem like they need to be answered anew each time they’re...
View ArticleOn Sitting Intensive Meditation Retreats – A Series (Part 1)
I recently returned from spending a month on a silent retreat practicing a style of Buddhist meditation that originated in India about 2,500 years ago. It’s a practice that I’ve been doing for almost...
View ArticleOn Sitting Intensive Meditation Retreats (Part 2) – Not a Spa
For those that missed the introductory post, this is the 2nd installment in a six part series about what it means to go on an intensive meditation retreat, something I’ve been doing for a number of...
View ArticleOn Sitting Intensive Meditation Retreats (Part 3) – Not an Escape
This is the 3rd installment in a six part series about what it means to go on intensive meditation retreats, something I’ve been doing for a number of years. This post, and the next two, continues an...
View ArticleOn Sitting Intensive Meditation Retreats (Part 4) – Not a High
This is the 4th installment in a six part series about what it means to go on intensive meditation retreats, something I’ve been doing for a number of years. This the third of four posts of the series...
View ArticleOn Sitting Intensive Meditation Retreats (Part 5) – Not Therapy, Not Self...
This is the 5th installment in a six part series about what it means to go on intensive meditation retreats, something I’ve been doing for a number of years. This the last of four posts in the series...
View ArticleSwinging the Pendulum Too Far on Teacher Training
Photo by Pseudopam. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC While it’s generally not my area of research, I’ve started to pay more attention to current debates about teacher quality and training that one...
View ArticleConfessions of an informal learner who’s learning in school
I have a confession to make. I’m learning. In school. No joke. I frame this as a confession because I’m someone who’s generally pretty hard on institutionalized education, and especially schools, and...
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