When the philosophy behind Vipassanā meditation started to resonate for me, I went through a phase of hoovering up as much as of the dhamma as I could get my paws on. Not content with my meditation center’s weekly dhamma talk, I subscribed to podcasts from teachers like Gil Fronsdal and Ajahn Brahm and drank deeply from the resulting firehose of ( Read more... )

The past couple weeks have provided some interesting noise for thought.

Although I’ve always thought of our culture as primarily visual, a confluence of events has convinced me that the attention of my ears is more hotly contested than my eyes. Here’s a few of the events that brought this to the fore, out of the background noise:

As soon as they ( Read more... )