5 posts tagged “meditation”
Just posted a new article for you all: The Owls Are Not What They Seem: The Dharma of Twin Peaks' Dale Cooper.
Just go to TheWorstHorse's homepage, here.
* The "gold plated Buddhist cell phone for monks"
* What happens when you cross the Buddha with the Michelin man?
* The mighty band Mission of Burma to play Boston-area show for -- what else? -- Burma!
* Cool: cartoonist Joe Matt is a Buddhist
* Noah Levine's Falling Fruit interview: brought to you in part by The Worst Horse
* Rapping monks, nuns hit the catwalk to promote Buddhism
* DharmaCrafts' Dyan Eagles on BusinessWeek.com
* NY Times: "Mindful" scrubbing and vacuuming
* Guardian (UK): Buddhist retreat for caregivers
* Dalai Lama to invade China? Well, in Chris Elliott's mind, he is.
* "Courtney Love: Chanting Buddhist" (via Huffington Post)
Check it all on http://theworsthorse.net
Inspiring interview with Ethan Nichtern, Founder and Director of The Interdependence Project (The ID Project) in New York City and author of the new book "One City: A Declaration of Interdependence". This is a fascinating and personal discussion of Nichtern's key idea of interdependence as well as an enlightening conversation about Eastern ideas in general, such as Buddhism and meditation. Nichtern talks about how there is a strong current desire worldwide for a new social consciousness that properly balances inner peace and illumination with informed social engagement and responsibility. ..
This is one of those times.
In this print ad, Prudential casts itself as everyone's retirement guru, offering "inner peace" at its Retirement Red Zone website.
This is just one more step toward full-on co-optation, folks. (See #3, here.)
Is it bad? Is it good?
Well, it sure did wonders for the culture's mainstream acceptance of the so-called revolution that the 60's offered.
Or, at least, it did wonders for the ad-men and industries of the day, who made all that co-opting happen in the first place.
See our article, here, for a little bit more on this kind of thang.
