Romantic Confessions of the Hottest Male Buddhist Blogger 2009
by Reverend Danny Fisher on Jul 31, 2010
[NOTE ABOUT THE TITLE: The author of this piece was named "Hottest Male Buddhist Blogger 2009" some months back by this publication, though he has repeatedly tried to concede the honor to its editor-in-chief.] The last time I saw her I was not kind. I was all glower and silence—an ugly, effective combination I learned [...]
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Waylon Lewis: 1st interview w John Friend, alleged Rock Star Yogi, re: New York Times Magazine article.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 31, 2010
Recently, John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga, was featured (and grilled, a bit) in The Sunday New York Times Magazine. This is his first interview following what is probably the most popular, prominent article re yoga in recent history. “We as a yoga community need to unite.” ~ John Friend. Last night, following our breaking [...]
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Chelsea Clinton Wedding Yoga. (+ “The Life that I Have” Poem.)
by Nancy Alder on Jul 31, 2010
Congrats from the #yogadork community to the former first daughter Chelsea Clinton! Yes, we know she’s looking grown up and beautiful. And yes we know she’s just tied the knot with Marc Mezvinsky in a fancy schamnzy wedding complete with vegan fare. All of this is great—but yoga workshop enthusiasts and fans of arm balance [...]
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Watering the Fields at Lammas.
by Laura Marjorie Miller on Jul 31, 2010
At Lammas, the harvest is not all in; it is only beginning. There is a tenuousness to it, and much still depends on the good graces of nature, of sunshine and sweet rain. Much depends also on the good graces of our own nature. Love—because attention is love, listening is love, asking is love—is a great liberator, both of others and of ourselves.
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Moonwalk Wal-Mart.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 31, 2010
It’s okay to shop at the Big Box if you buy organic produce and CFLs and do it all while moonwalking backwards. Wal-Mart Moonwalk
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10 Reasons your Yoga Classes Suck.
by Mark Kreloff on Jul 31, 2010
Please quit your day job and become a stand up comedian. Have you observed these and other classic FAIL situations in yoga class? 1. Teachers that refer to your ass as “Booty.” KC and the Sunshine Band called. They want their lyrics back. Skinny-assed white teachers should not be using this word. Ever. 2. Teachers [...]
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“World’s Strongest Redneck” Xeriscape.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 31, 2010
Try at Home only if you got big Guns. You know what’s more eco-responsible than clippin’ them hedges in the summertime? This: Redneck Yard Work
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“Green” shouldn’t be, and isn’t, a “liberal” cause.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 31, 2010
Why I’m not (just) a Liberal. I may be Liberal, but as Swami Beyondananda says (just discovered him via Tantrum Yoga) we need everyone on board, by definition, if we’re going to create a more enlightened, happy, safe, healthy society. Just this morning I was at Farmers’ Market, here in “green,” “liberal” Boulder, and a [...]
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George Carlin: “Why we need elephant.”
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 31, 2010
Just received the below morale boost from an elephant reader, and thought it timely. We just lost one of our last two part-time employees, and are sputtering even as, this week, we racked up our third and fourth biggest readership days in our history, online. We’re at 200,000 unique readers (according to Google Analytics). We’ve [...]
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David de Rothschild sails the Plastiki.
by Heather Lounsbury on Jul 31, 2010
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a fan of plastic. Well David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology, has found a way to make plastic work. After being inspired by a United Nations Environment Programme report, de Rothschild had the idea to build the world’s first boat made completely of recycled plastic bottles [...]
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Yoga Dogs that Don’t Bark. ~ Lucas Rockwood
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 31, 2010
Why Yoga Teachers don’t Share… If you’ve ever felt like your whole body was going to explode while practicing back bends in yoga class, then I’m going to share with you a very strange tip that might help you fall in love with back bending for the first time. But first, a story. In a [...]
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Bhakti Yoga: How Yogis Get High
by Ramesh Bjonnes on Jul 31, 2010
How can we cure our spiritual heart disease? By getting high on Bhakti Yoga. In the great tradition of the Bhagavad Gita and other Eastern sacred scriptures, it is often said that the gateway to the Divine is through the heart of love, the path of Bhakti, the path of intense passion and loving adoration [...]
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10 Photos of American Apparel Male Models.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Waylon posts a blog full of photos of American Apparel objectifying Men and…no one complains. What’s the sound of one hand clapping? Same diff. Whenever I/we post on AA, which is so often we were asked on our crazy popular FB Page today if we sponsor them, I get questions about why we’re exploiting AA‘s [...]
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The Deeper the Reflection…
by Dylan Barmmer on Jul 30, 2010
I don’t cross paths with too many people who match or reflect my own intensity and sensitivity.
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My Sexy Biodiesel Beast
by R.R. Shakti on Jul 30, 2010
Mindful Fueling on the Road Meet Max. I personify my car. I am completely convinced that this will improve “his” longevity and performance. And he is truly a sexy beast—a Jetta Wagon TDI. But more importantly, he runs on diesel and that means biodiesel in the summer and whenever I can get it. On day [...]
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Pleasure as a Spiritual Pathway
by Ricardo das Neves on Jul 30, 2010
At the end of each of my yoga classes, as we settle in for the final relaxation, I tell people, “Enjoy the relaxation.” I’m sure the full emphasis of that goes unnoticed – just as when someone says “Have a nice day,” you don’t sit there and think what a memorably enjoyable day would be [...]
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Land of the Midnight Sun.
by Kathryn Budig on Jul 30, 2010
I’m sitting in bed in the land of the midnight sun. It’s 11:30pm at night in Juneau, Alaska, and the sky is still lit up like a shining sapphire unwilling to cease its majestic glow. The land of permanent twilight—a vampirelier’s dream come true. The air is crisp, the landscape is staggering and the omega [...]
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Tantrum Yoga.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Temper, Temper. I practiced diligently as a child, and still do from time to time. My favorite is hands in the air about to throw myself down on the ground if I don’t get dinner soon asana. “The primary practice of Tantrum Yoga — holding your breath until God gives you what you want — [...]
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Like trite New Agey feel-good generalizations! Me neither! An encouragement to read deeper.*
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 30, 2010
A friend of mine just tweeted this: “Love all with love that none have felt, and brave the battle of life with strength unchained.” ~ Yogananda As Oprah said (can’t believe I’m quoting Oprah) it’s not about what we should do. We all know doing the right thing is the right thing to do. It’s [...]
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Buddhist advice for children who are about to lose their temper + punch someone.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Buddhist Advice on What to do if You’re about to Lose it + Start a Fight. Ed’s note: I don’t know about you, but I lose my temper once every couple months, maybe only for a few minutes…but that’s often enough, and long enough. When it’s over I’ve broken something or hurt someone’s feelings or, [...]
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity & Wolsey Comes Out.
by Roger Wolsey on Jul 30, 2010
A news splash took place yesterday when popular author author Anne Rice, spinner of sexy vampire dramas, publicly renounced her Christianity. In her own words: “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian … It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and [...]
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Goldman Sachs $uck$. {Jon Stewart}
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
King of Douches. “Rigged the game against investors…” “…made massive bet housing market would collapse…” Goldman Sachs execs sit around in their posh hot tubs sippin’ champagne while thousands of Americans, including yours truly, struggle to keep their homes. What’s a more constructive word than “hate”? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs [...]
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Conan O’Brien + Louis C.K.: “Everything’s Amazing + Nobody’s Happy.”
by Merete Mueller on Jul 30, 2010
“New York to LA in 5 hours. That used to take 3o years. A bunch of people you were with would die, you’d have a baby…you’d be with a whole different group of people by the time you got there!” Mid-week, the emails begin to pile up and I realize I haven’t been keeping up [...]
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Ducks Don’t Do Anger.
by Ed & Deb Shapiro on Jul 30, 2010
Getting angry is simply playing the same game and results show seen in the catchphrase, ‘two wrongs don’t make a right.’ Yes, we have a right to be angry at being treated with disrespect, but retaliation just gets us into further negativity.
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Get Back on the Rag. ~ Beth Bartel
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 30, 2010
A Case for Reusable Menstrual Products. On a sunny fall day some many years ago, on a liberal arts college campus in eastern Washington, I happened to see a sinkfull of soaking stuff in the bathroom of a progressive, popular, Carhart-wearing art student who I looked up to as a role model. The stuff? GladRags. [...]
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Pigs: Smarter than your Dog.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Animals are people, too. “So hungry, I could eat a horse.” I often think that if we could just talk with our animal friends, we’d know—just as we did, for a time, when we were children—that animals are people, too. Would we cook your dog into tasty strips of lean burger? Would we delicately slice [...]
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8 Slogans for Kitchen Practice, by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Buddhist Kitchen Sink Wisdom. I snapped this photo in Marpa House, a Buddhist community home in Boulder, Colorado, the other day. It was good to see these slogans, again—I’d grown up reciting them before prep cook duty at Karme Choling, a rural meditation center in Barnet, Vermont. Explanation of “this food is prepared as an [...]
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7 Reasons Buddhists don’t give a shiite about the Environment.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
Buddhists: Too Busy to Touch the Earth? Walking the path toward selflessness often means getting really self-absorbed. Sorting yourself out? Practicing meditation, going on Buddhist retreats? Likely means you won’t be spending the best part of your daily energies fighting (peaceably, that is) for a better planet. I grew up in the Shambhala Buddhist community, [...]
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“Yoga Mogul” John Friend’s response to Sunday NY Times Magazine feature article.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 30, 2010
Update: here’s my interview with John Friend, the first granted in response to the NY Times Magazine feature: Update: The below response has been picked up by other blogs. So John has granted ele an exclusive interview. That interview will go into some more depth, and be offered on elephantjournal.com shortly. ~ WL. Anusara yoga [...]
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A response to John Friend’s response to the NYT magazine feature article.
by Jimmy Gleacher on Jul 30, 2010
Snooki v. John Friend All the talk swirling around John Friend’s NY Times “Yoga Mogul” article has caused people to overlook another profile the newspaper was simultaneously running—one that was also about an entrepreneurial guru of sorts—this one named Snooki. The juxtaposition of the profiles was intriguing because John Friend’s piece was about why everybody [...]
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HOT EARTH YOGA, Awakening, Renewing and Energizing in Aspen
by Bud Wilson on Jul 30, 2010
Join with powerful change makers and thought leaders in selfless service to the world
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Jon Stewart: BP gives scapegoat Tony Hayward $17.5 million severance.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 30, 2010
“I understand that people find it easier to vilify an individual more than a company.” ~Tony Hayward. I don’t for a minute blame Tony Hayward. I blame BP, which among all oil companies has been reponsible for 97% of accidents over the past few years. I blame lax regulations thanks to our Republican Congressman. As [...]
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Tonglen Meditation as Self-Healing
by Lasara Allen on Jul 30, 2010
Tonglen meditation is a simple practice of transmutation. It’s the process of breathing in “dirty” energy, thoughts, or feelings, and releasing them with compassionate non-attachment as pure light. As opposed to the idea of breathing peace and calm into the body and mind, in tonglen we breathe in pain and suffering (dukkha) and transform it [...]
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Who Gets The Gold Star?
by Andrea Marcum on Jul 30, 2010
Who are you competing with?
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A Tiny Enlightened Society.
by Heather Grimes on Jul 30, 2010
The Innate Ability of Children to Live in (their version of) Harmony. When I was in my early twenties, my mother, who is an adolescent psychiatric nurse, along with a group of her colleagues, put together a weekend camp for kids with parents in prison. They asked me to come and help. The camp took [...]
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Taking a Time-out from Myself?
by Kim Stetz on Jul 30, 2010
Practical Schizophrenia. I found myself saying I need to take a time out from being Kim Stetz. Brief as the time out was, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I came up with the idea. What would I do for “x” amount of time not being me? I like me, just sometimes I [...]
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The Law of Receiving.
by Demi Knight Clark on Jul 30, 2010
The Law of Receiving—er—I Mean, Giving? “It’s 6 o’clock in the morning, you’re the last to hear the warning…you’ve been trying to throw your arms around the world.” –Bono, U2 Who hasn’t been this guy? Bono wasn’t waxing poetical–he was being brutally honest. Sometimes we cast our nets out into the world, energy, energy, energy, [...]
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Fire on the Mountain. ~ John Spina
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 30, 2010
Handling the Colorado Beetle Kill Infestation. The Colorado Rocky Mountains acted as my day care facility growing up. Ever since I can remember my weekends were spent skiing, backpacking, rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, snowmobiling, cliff jumping, horseback riding, the list is literally endless. I learned so much within those mountains, exploring the unknown truths of [...]
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iJustine hearts Guayaki Yerba Mate on Daily Booth.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 30, 2010
Update: I just got touched by the hand of iGod: First Miss Social Media Influencer iJustine‘s recent interview on Fast Company gets me into Daily Booth. Now, she’s pimpin’ Guayaki, my fave company. Read my articolo about the founders and Guayaki on Huff Post here. Here’s the photos, lol hey? Bonus, my succinct little typo-ful [...]
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Vegan Condoms?
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 29, 2010
Now, you can awkwardly pause before making love and dull your pleasure…all without hurting animals! Aren’t all condoms vegan, you ask? No: none are, actually—at least none of the condom brands commonly available in, you know, well, anywhere. Except for these, and the forthcoming Sir Richard’s, and these: To buy, click here. Info: Made without [...]
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Dancing Spirit into Being.
by Melanie Klein on Jul 29, 2010
The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power with Nita Rubio. Watching Nita dance is watching poetry in motion. Witnessing Nita is witnessing the Goddess. Nita has long been a secret treasure for women in Los Angeles and Orange County,whose reach and influence is growing. Flowing with grace, wisdom and strength, Nita empowers women by “aligning them [...]
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Calling All American Buddhists: Help a Scholar with His Study of Buddhism and Psychedelics by Filling Out a Short Survey!
by Reverend Danny Fisher on Jul 29, 2010
This from H-Buddhism (The Buddhist Scholars Information Network): Dear List Members: I am writing to inform you of a research project I am conducting on American Buddhism and to offer an invitation to any American citizen or permanent resident with an interest or involvement in Buddhism to take part in an online survey. In recent [...]
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23 feet: Home is where your sock drawer is.
by Lisa Montierth on Jul 29, 2010
“Home, home on the…?” I had this dream the other night about buying a Volkswagen Westfalia. We’ve seen lots of Westys on this trip and I’ve slowly started to long for one of my own – I’m now in the throes of a most unexpected vehicular crush. So this Westfalia of mine was sitting in [...]
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“That which you hate the most, you secretly are.” {Daily Show}
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 29, 2010
Adolph Hitler: Gay. Gay Haters? Quack, quack. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Gay Reichs www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
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Porsche Porn.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 29, 2010
Batmobile + Hybrid = Dream Car. This video is hot. It’s gorgeous from a design perspective. From a car-lover’s perspective. And from a green perspective. Me wanty. Now all I have to do is figure out a new business model for new media (this giving away our product (content) for free thing ain’t workin’ out) [...]
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Music Review: Delorean’s Ayrton Senna EP. ~ Karthik Sonty
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 29, 2010
It’s The Endless Summer. The four-piece Spanish outfit Delorean defines summer grooves on their bliss-fueled Ayrton Senna EP (2009). Originating in the Basque country, the group first formed with a penchant for Elliott Smith styled lyricism over Jimmy Eat World rock riffs. Somewhere along the way they abandoned this lachrymose attitude, adopting an effervescent, care-free [...]
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Book Review: The Natural Health Bible for Women (Marilyn Glenville).
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 29, 2010
Your body. Your well-being. Your education. I snatched up the opportunity to review “The Natural Health Bible for Women: The Complete Guide for Women of All Ages” because, well, I wanted to keep it. And I’m so glad I did. It is everything that a layperson-accessible health book should be: It’s a good size (not [...]
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Bill O’Reilly: kill Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 29, 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Bill O’Reilly. Come again? Bill O’Reilly comes out of the closet for civil rights…probably can’t turn down any excuse to poke President Obama. Still, cough, cough, this is tough: Bill? Buddy? Kudos to you:
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Don’t believe the hype: People love BP. Video.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 29, 2010
Funny or Die reveals the unedited truth: Everyone Loves BP – An Unedited Marketing Video – watch more funny videos
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Weekly Art Log – July 26, 2010.
by Erin King on Jul 29, 2010
This year, I will be a repeat offender in the Boulder Open Studios Fall Tour and I wanted to make sure I was creating art anyone could afford, therefore I will be making my weekly sketches available for purchase. Prices will range from $25-$50, and there will hopefully be some corresponding jewelry pieces, but at [...]
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