March 8, 2013
A Conversation between Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman
Excerpted from the book The Dude and the Zen Master
Jeff: We’re making the movie The Big Lebowski, and everyone who’s seen the movie knows that the Dude and Walter dig bowling, right? Now, I’ve bowled a little bit in the past, but I’m not an expert like the Dude. So the Coen brothers hire a master bowler to teach John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and me how to bowl. The master bowler is a world champion and he brings his assistant along.
I ask ...
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March 8, 2013
Eclipses probably conjure up childhood memories of your dad assembling a paper and wire thingamajig so that you wouldn’t go blind when the sun emerged from behind the moon.
Well, those may be fond memories of the astronomical eclipses, but astrologers work with the poetry and symbolic meaning of the astrological eclipses.
Eclipses are powerful symbols in the astrological predictions of trends and events for the individual as well as the collective. Sometimes events happen right then and there wi...
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March 8, 2013
Fear & the Work of the Light Barer
On a cold February night and the eve of my twenty-second birthday, I had a powerful awakening. Lying in bed in my little room in Bushwick, a small light flickering not two feet from my bedside, I realized that I was terrified to be alone. I realized also that I was afraid of the dark; that I was afraid of spiders, that I was afraid of failure, of disappointment, of confrontation, of “not making it”, of never finding love. I was afraid of death, and I was al...
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March 8, 2013
“Peace is not the opposite of war. We can have peace in our heart even in the midst of our fiercest battles, because we are fighting for our dreams. When our friends have lost hope, the peace of the Good Fight helps us to carry on.” – Paulo Coelho’s Like the Flowing River
We meet again dear Warrior, in this New Year, this much anticipated new era. How are you traveling? What does the world you live in look like? Does it reflect your consciousness, or do you feel alienated from it?
In our last me...
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March 8, 2013
There’s no better time to learn from your own cooking than spring
Spring is here! Welcome in the new beginnings. For this season’s Healthy Helpings, I’m delighted to share a spring recipe philosophy by one of my favorite chefs, Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace. Her approach to cooking is natural, spontaneous and delicious. It is truly a joy to be around Tamar, and I wanted to share this so that you too can feel her inspiration in your own kitchen. To coo...
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