Elephant Journal: Not Affiliated With the Republican Party
by Jay Winston on Apr 30, 2010
Let me make this clear: the Elephant in Elephant Journal bears no relation to the GOP elephant. It’s an Indian Ganesh-type elephant…or something…
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Flagstaff Stands Up Against Arizona’s New Profiling Law ~ Via Ian Kaplan
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 30, 2010
Flagstaff Stands Up Against Racial Profiling
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Introducing The Mad Yogi Poet!
by Dylan Barmmer on Apr 30, 2010
Meet Dylan Barmmer, The Mad Yogi Poet. And discover how the beautiful blend of yoga, poetry, breath and love continues to shape and evolve the life and work of one passionate poet.
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Review: English Retreads: elephant’s favorite “mindful” laptop bag on the planet. (Eco, vegan, fair labor/Made in USA)
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 30, 2010
English Retreads’ Reincarnated “Bentley Luxe” Laptop Bag Next time you roadtrip, visiualize your tires and their inner tubes housing your next wallet or laptop bag. That’s what Heather English, a longtime friend of elephant’s, did back in the day. And English Retreads was born. I’ve used their wallet, and abused their wallet (made out of [...]
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Confessions of an American Idiot Buddhist
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 30, 2010
Our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to but who we are right now. Pema Chodron
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Don’t ask an entrepreneur “how are you,” unless you got 10 minutes.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
It was a long sad hard good chapter of his life called Losing, Rebuilding, Losing some more. Phone rings. “How are you,” a kindly naive friend asked. The young man wasn’t all so very young, anymore, and he answered slowly: “Heavily depressed this afternoon, but in a good way…something brewing. Probably just tired. Got to [...]
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The Dark Side of the Kentucky Derby.
by Gary Smith on Apr 29, 2010
The Kentucky Derby, considered the most prestigious horse race in the world, will be run on Saturday. The race is one and quarter miles long, lasts approximately two minutes, and takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Kentucky Derby attendance ranks first in North America, usually surpassing all other stakes races including the Preakness [...]
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Makini Howell: Vegan Queen
by Rachel Sarnoff on Apr 29, 2010
Who can get Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler, Jenny McCarthy, Daryl Hannah, Gus Van Sant, Michael Cera and twenty or so others of Hollywood’s cool list together for a meal of tofu, quinoa and tempeh? Only Makini Howell, chef and co-owner of Plum Bistro in Seattle, WA. A small woman with a giant smile, Makini [...]
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The Top 5 Tricks to Meditating Regularly.
by Ricardo das Neves on Apr 29, 2010
I’ve had to develop tricks through the years to get myself to meditate. I can practice yoga with the best of them for hours a day, but I haven’t yet managed to override the part of my brain that is certain that sending that package out, or calling back that friend, or devoting half an [...]
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Is free content sustainable?
by Brooks Hall on Apr 29, 2010
Creating great articles and a well-maintained Web site requires time, energy and money. Yes, money…
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My kind of Party.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
AllenGinsberg.org a great web site full of photos and poetry worth losing an hour or two in: Discussion of Tibetan Bhuddism at Allen Ginsberg’s apartment, Boulder Colorado, August, 1976. (left to right) Jerome Rothenberg, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Chogyam Trungpa, student, William Burroughs. c. Allen De Loach. This is the [...]
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Arizona’s New Immigration Law: So It Begins…
by Chris Courtney on Apr 29, 2010
Papers Please!
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A map from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road journal.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
“And as I sat there listening to that sound of the night which bop has come to represent for all of us, I thought of my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing-about.” I just [...]
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Save My Oceans Upcycle Contest
by Emily Nuchols on Apr 29, 2010
From Emily Nuchols’ blog: It’s Thursday and I know I’m itching to take on some projects in my backyard. In my search for some inspiration, I found this contest that is calling for creative ways to “upcycle” or reuse plastics. Check the photo: May Day baskets made out of old laundry detergent caps! I’m no [...]
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Toxins, Waste and Pollutants: Just BAG IT.
by Claire Lochridge on Apr 29, 2010
This film is a must—add it to your canvas bag of eco tricks! Bag It, premiering in Telluride this spring at the annual Mountain Film festival, is a feature-length documentary about the infamous plastic bag and its world of cousins. Narrator and protagonist Jeb Berrier weaves a tale around plastic that is at once candid [...]
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Michael Moore vs. Goldman Sachs, Arizona on Larry King Live.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
Deport Wall Street “… any illegal immigrant they catch in Arizona, they should let him keep doing his job because he’s adding to the economy. For every one they catch, they should send one Goldman Sachs guy to Mexico.” ~ Michael Moore on Larry King Live, Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Michael Moore’s pretty eloquent, here—even [...]
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The Fat Yogini: Making Peace With Our Bodies.
by Patricia Busbee on Apr 29, 2010
I was forced to inhabit my body…
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Kind of a Haiku by Allen Ginsberg
by Jay Winston on Apr 29, 2010
Allen Ginsberg wrote me a Haiku once…though I spilled something on it…
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Hermione Granger goes Green (photos)
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
Emma Watson’s new Organic, Fair-trade Ecofashion Line We’re the last in the world to report on this, but I’m not a big fashion boy…I’m just a big eco-responsible fanboy, and a Harry Potter faniac. Enjoy: Via Ecouterre: Chockfull of breezy, youthful fare that is a far cry from her dour Hogwarts cloak, Watson’s “Love From [...]
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Who’s up for Banning Flavored Milk in Schools?
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
Ann Cooper & Jamie Oliver vs. the Chocolate & Strawberry Milk Industry Click image below for video with Ann Cooper: Jamie Oliver: Excerpt via The Atlantic, re: flavored milke and Jamie Oliver’s new hit reality show about bringing real food to schools in Huntington, Virginia: …ask why responsible adults would place children directly in harm’s [...]
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Natural Citrus Peel Soap (just in time for Mother’s Day)
by Diana Mercer on Apr 29, 2010
Calling all dads and children looking for a sweet homemade gift to make for Mother’s Day this year. All natural citrus peel soap smells good enough to eat, is rich and nourishing to the skin, and is easy to make. So gather up the ingredients, roll up your sleeves, and head into the kitchen with [...]
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Starbucks’ Naked To-Go Cup Hypocrisy.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 29, 2010
On a recent Earth Day, Starbucks offered a free coffee to anyone who brought in their own mug. Greenwashing alert: Did you know: Starbucks serves 99% to-go cups? I didn’t. Until Josh Onysko, founder of Pangea Organics, enlightened me to their daily mass-environmental-nonsensical-crimes, recently. He was rightfully going off about how ridiculous it was that [...]
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10 Great Reasons to Support Elephant Journal
by Diana Mercer on Apr 29, 2010
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. ~ John F. Kennedy As an enthusiastic woman who gets fired up about everything from Pema Chodron to Larkburger, it is not unusual for me to fall passionately under the spell of various causes including the arts, social service, politics, green-living, natural products, and [...]
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Tibetan Writer Arrested for Organizing Yushu Quake Donations
by John Pappas on Apr 29, 2010
The leading Tibetan intellectual, a writer, publisher and philosopher long seen as close to China’s ruling Communist Party, has been arrested after organising private donations for this month’s earthquake. Tra Gyal, better known by his penname of Zhogs Dung, was detained at 5.30pm on Friday in Xining, capital of the western province of Qinghai where [...]
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Why I Want Elephant to Survive.
by Patricia Busbee on Apr 29, 2010
Elephant fosters the voice of the reader…
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Now Here Are The Ones Who Should Be Asking For Our “Papers.”
by Chris Courtney on Apr 29, 2010
A Gathering Of Nations It was against the backdrop of Arizona’s passage of a cruel and oppressive new law to allow law enforcement officials to check the papers of anyone they suspect of being an undocumented alien that my best friend and I went to see the 2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow here in Albuquerque today. Yes, one [...]
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Reflections on Craving: Babies, Bottle Girls, and Catholic Priests
by Nathan Smith on Apr 28, 2010
We have a little baby girl, almost 6 mos. She’s at that adorable baby stage. We love her to death. She also has this habit, as I’m sure you’ve seen before, of putting everything she can get her hands on into her mouth. I was watching this behavior recently and I wondered: what is this [...]
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It’s what they say in Buddhism: you can’t be an activist until you’ve tamed yourself, or you just create further aggression in the world.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 28, 2010
Allen Ginsberg, an activist with few equals in his day: “Aggression only begets Aggression.” Vegans love animals. Do they love humans, too? I showed the above Facebook comment to my colleague Lindsey. “Who are these people?!” she smiled. “It’s intense,” I agreed. “I don’t even know if they watch the video before commenting.” I get [...]
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Become an elephant by Friday@6pm—three of you will win a $60 eco Jade yoga mat + free shipping.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 28, 2010
Jade eco yoga mats, $59.95 each, are 3/16” thick x 68” long and available in 8 colors. Three of the next 20 new elephantians to become a member of elephant at $9/month (which includes your name/business name on the very bottom of every page of elephantjournal.com) will receive a free eco Jade Yoga Mat, including [...]
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Kirtan music review: Dharma Gypsys.
by Nancy Alder on Apr 28, 2010
A couple of weeks ago my pal Joni Yung, the go-to-gal for all things L.A. yoga, raved about a new kirtan album by the Dharma Gypsys. Joni has attended more kirtan than one can imagine, so if she said it rocked, I knew I had to check out the album. The Dharma Gypsys is a [...]
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Why Jennifer Egbert became an elephant.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 28, 2010
Hi There! I am sharing this inexpensive and cool opportunity with you. As a Boulder business owner, finding ways to reach out to prospective new clients always is on my mind, and of course I want it to be practically free $9/month: Become an elephant member, get name / business on bottom of every page [...]
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Embracing the path of self-publication. ~ Ruben Zukowski
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 28, 2010
Witnessing my first publication come to life, I feel grateful. Trusting this new process, reaching people around the world, paying close attention to my intentions. After holding my book—it’s real!—and seeing the effect it can have on some people, I’m glad I did what it takes to get my ideas out there. Self-publishing our own [...]
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Pain! Yogic pain! Get your “pain as a guru” here!
by Ricardo das Neves on Apr 28, 2010
A yoga teacher finds that an accident is a great (albeit painful) way to daily-living mindfulness…
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Nude + Buddha = Nuddha.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 28, 2010
Breaking news: The Buddha had a Penis. Holy Sex, Batman!, or, why elephant writes all those “Naked Sexy” blogs, and why we don’t think spirituality need be unsexy, holier-than-thou or serious. ~ed. elephant and I get gently teased, and rightfully so, for occasionally indulging in the art of traffic. What’s that? You know: titles and [...]
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First film version of Alice in Wonderland restored. Video:
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 28, 2010
It’s more than 100 years old. Some days, I lovvvvve youtube: The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by [...]
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Catching Thoughts: Be a Tosser.
by Celia Aurora de Blas on Apr 28, 2010
Freeing up your own connections to things clears the mental clutter and gives you more energy to put into your present endeavors. I like to hold onto things because of the feelings they bring up and the memories from the past. I wonder how much of this kind of holding on leads to stagnation in [...]
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The Many Paths of Yoga: Tantra vs. Buddhism, Vedanta vs. Marxism
by Ramesh Bjonnes on Apr 28, 2010
The nondual state of Brahma (Cosmic Consciousness), or the emptiness of Nirvana, as experienced in deep meditation by sages of all perennial wisdom traditions, is essentially the same. Yet when these sages try to explain this trans-rational state of mind, they invariably give that One invisible reality different names. More importantly, they also formulate various [...]
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Don’t Bring a Coffee Cup to a Gun Fight. ~ Andrew Michler
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 27, 2010
Searching for an environmentally-friendly society in the face of an oppressive world of fossil fuel corporations We have all witnessed a dizzying and destructive number of years in politics and our current political climate really is not much different (Get the government out of my politics!). Politics is sometimes where it shouldn’t be. A friend [...]
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Jon Stewart takes on Arizona’s new “law” re Illegal Immigration, Racial Profiling.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 27, 2010
Racial profiling is now, more or less…okay, more…mandated in Arizona. Brilliant! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Law & Border www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
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Mountaintop Removal has never been so Beautiful. (Music video: WeWereMonkeys: Land of Talk – It’s Okay)
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 27, 2010
WeWereMonkeys: Land of Talk – It’s Okay Commentary: Uh…wow. With thanks for the tip to Grace Boyle (oh, this is her): ~ WeWereMonkeys: Land of Talk – It’s Okay from WeWereMonkeys on Vimeo.
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Five Citizens Arrested at Boulder, Colorado Valmont Coal Power Plant.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 27, 2010
Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner, Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile. Boulder, CO – At approximately 12:45 today, four activists climbed onto the massive coal pile in front of the Valmont Power Plant. A large banner was unfurled down the front of the coal pile, reading “RENEWABLES NOW,” and two fake wind turbines were erected on [...]
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Fascinating Facebook Exchange About the History of Yoga in America
by Bob Weisenberg on Apr 27, 2010
(Just had the following fascinating exchange on Facebook about Stefanie Syman’s upcoming book about the history of Yoga in America:) *** Bob Weisenberg The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America: How exciting. Just put it on my Amazon wish list so I can get it as soon as it comes out. I [...]
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Stripping A Chip Or Two Off Stripping The Gurus
by Ramesh Bjonnes on Apr 27, 2010
I must admit at the onset, I do not have the time nor the inclination to read the whole book Stripping the Gurus:Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment by Geoffrey Falk. I have only read the Chapter on Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, and, so far, I am hardly impressed with the shoddy scholarship and tendency toward sensationalism. [...]
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The NICE Manifesto – Living with Warrior Heart
by William Harryman on Apr 26, 2010
Over at Susan Piver’s personal blog, she posted this cool article after giving a teaching based on her new book, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart. Here is the main text: Over and over, I’m struck by the deep well of tenderness that resides in each of us and how a broken heart puts you [...]
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The Wellness Initiative’s First Annual Yogathon. ~ Grace Boyle and Mara Rose
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 26, 2010
On Saturday, May 1st from 1-4 PM (registration begins at 12:30) The Wellness Initiative (TWI) is hosting its first annual Yogathon at Boulder High School. Imagine a gym filled with 200 people being guided through 108 sun salutations (surya namaskara) and the steady, rhythmic sound of movement, filling the gym at Boulder High School. Around [...]
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Help Me! I’m Tweeting & I Can’t Get Off!
by Lynn Hasselberger on Apr 26, 2010
Beating twitter-aholicism ain’t easy. I would have shared this with you sooner, but I got a bit distracted by twitter. There are so many amazing tweeters who have interesting, meaningful, radical, inspirational and/or humorous things to tweet. From all over the world! Who could resist (besides my husband, who glazes over when I talk twitter [...]
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Book Review: Tibetan Psycho-pharmacology. ~ Linda V. Lewis
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 26, 2010
Tibetan Psychopharmacology by T.J. Tsarong is a commentary on Tibetan medicine, explaining its origin inspired by the Buddhist view that suffering and illness arise from ignorance and the subsequent grasping at a non-existent self. The introduction explains that holding onto the illusion of ego is manifested in the form of obscuring emotions—passion, aggression, and delusion—which [...]
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SoulSweat. ~ Hannah Kinderlehrer
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 26, 2010
SoulSweat is a form of dance created by Chantal Pierrat that opens the door for ecstatic movement and unbridled soul expression. It is a dance experience that enhances coordination, tones your body, increases the dynamic flow of energy, and awakens the creative spirit. The soundtrack includes world groove, electronica, Latin, African, jazz, pop, big band, [...]
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Film Review: Recalling a Buddha: Memories of the Sixteenth Karmapa. ~ Linda V. Lewis
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 26, 2010
Recalling a Buddha, a DVD by Gregg Eller, is not only a film about the 16th Karmapa, but a fluid composite of photos, drawings, TV recordings, video, radio, and newspaper clips about the Tibetan diaspora and the resilience of the Kagyu lineage in particular. It includes interviews with teachers from both the four schools of [...]
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The Four Noble Truths of Yoga
by Ramesh Bjonnes on Apr 26, 2010
1. Life means bliss 2. The origin of bliss is oneness with Brahman/Cosmic Consciousness 3. Oneness with Brahman/Cosmic Consciousness is attainable 4. The path to oneness with Brahman/Cosmic Consciousness is Yoga
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