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How Jewish Are You?
Being Jewish in America today has less to do with religious belief and more to do with cultural attitudes like “having a good sense of humor,” according to a major survey released …
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Bringing the Wisdom Back Home
One of the trickier things about going off on a spiritual retreat is not what happens when you’re away. It’s what happens when you get home. I was recently at a retreat center whe…
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Laughing Buddha, Laughing Jesus
There’s a line I love from Leonard Cohen, not a song lyric but a remark the singer/songwriter makes between tunes on his “Live in London” album. In the introduction to “Ain’t No…
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The Father of Tantra — Pierre Bernard
At first glance, the neo-tantra movement, with its many books, videos, and workshops on “sacred sexuality,” looks like a hangover from the 1960s—echoes from the sexual revolu…Tags:
• Tantra
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Film Review: More than Honey
Albert Einstein said, “If bees were to disappear from the globe, mankind would only have four years left to live.” He seemed to have understood then what experts now know is the fu…
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Let's Talk Tantra
What’s the first thing you think of when someone says the word “tantra?” Does it have something to do with sex? To scholars of religion, the tantras are a collection of esoteric B…
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Beginner's Mind, Beginner's Voice
In the long while since you’ve heard from me I’ve been on a quest to re-find my voice as a blogger on issues of sacred activism. It’s like this: After more than 20 years of work in…
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John Muir: American Eco-Prophet
Over the last few decades, some churches and other religious institutions have re-examined how their theology informs their ideas about ecology. Many Christians and Jews are r…
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The Greening of the Self
How do we as individuals approach a problem as seemingly hopeless and overwhelming as the ongoing planetary crisis caused by the air pollution and climate change? One way is to…
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The Subversive Wisdom of Jesus and Buddha
We were talking about the spiritual benefits of doubt, and about a Buddhist teacher I once studied with who stressed the importance of keeping a “Don’t Know” mind. Buddhist me…Tags:
• Christianity
