It took me eight years to do it, but I’ve finally sat my first silent residential meditation retreat out at the Insight Meditation Society in rural Barre, Mass. Here’s a report from the front lines…

My first hard-won insights actually came before the retreat, when all my prospective rides bagged on me, and my postings on ( Read more... )

On May 2 I got to see the Dalai Lama. Hosted at Gillette Stadium by the Tibetan Association of Boston, tickets were not difficult to come by, since we ordered them early. Our contingent consisted of four people from CIMC (Mark, Shea, Erin, and I) and three friends (Annie, Andrea, Nancy).

I got up at 5:30am on a Saturday in order to catch a bus ( Read more... )