Andrew Cohen: A Modern Day Trungpa?

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 29, 2009

article via Duff McDuffee Is this Crazy Wisdom, or..? Andrew Cohen is a controversial American guru. He has a tight-knit spiritual community, a cool pop spirituality magazine (EnlightenNext) with excellent graphic design written by and…

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Sangha, Schmangha ~ via Nadia Ballas-Ruta.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

Growing up as the first ethnic kid in the neighborhood put me in an interesting position.  I was the first in my family to be born in America, and the first in the neighborhood…

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Music and Spiritual Practice: Four Excerpts via Poligraf.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 4, 2009

Music and Spiritual Practice: Excerpt #1 via Poligraf Music has been an essential part of my life since the end of the 80s. The adventure began during the second of my four years of…

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Everyday Buddhadharma with Linda Lewis: Buddhist Lojong Slogan #8: Always Maintain a Joyful Mind.

By elephantjournal.com on May 30, 2009

Obviously, it’s easy to be happy when things are going well—when we have “reasons” to be happy.  This is known as conditional happiness—happiness due to positive conditions.  But in any given life, mishaps and…

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Sister Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking fame. A Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis on location special at Naropa University.

By elephantjournal.com on May 18, 2009

My interview with Sister Helen Prejean. The nun behind the best-selling Dead Man Walking best-selling book and movie (in which she was played by Susan Sarandon) offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor—a…

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Everyday Buddhadharma with Linda Lewis: Lojong Slogan “Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one.”

By elephantjournal.com on May 15, 2009

Atisha's Buddhist Lojong Slogan #7 “Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one.” It is said in all the Buddhadharma texts that Prajnaparamita is the mother of all the Buddhas. What does this mean?  It…

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Everyday Buddhadharma ~ Buddhist Lojong Slogan: “All Dharma Agrees at One Point.” ~ Linda Lewis

By elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2009

Everyday Buddhadharma with Linda V. Lewis. Atisha's Lojong Mind-Training Slogans: All Dharma Agrees at One Point As we meditate each day, it is important to pause now and then to reflect on our progress. Is ego-clinging…

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Review: Cartwheels in a Sari ~ a memoir of growing up in a cult.

By Caroline Treadway on May 7, 2009

In her memoir Cartwheels in a Sari, Jayanti Tamm reveals her childhood as "the chosen one" in the spiritual cult of Sri Chinmoy. Chinmoy was an Indian guru known for spreading peace and lifting extremely heavy objects.  His sari-swathed…

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The Dalai Lama: On Dying.

By elephantjournal.com on May 6, 2009

Via our friends at the Upaya Zen Center, who have the best, loveliest, most useful newsletter this side of nirvana.   ON DYING: DALAI LAMA First of all, we should realize that death is truly…

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Abundance Mastery: What I Learned From “Going Broke” by Claire Burstein

By elephantjournal.com on Apr 20, 2009

I thought I knew what abundance was about.  I thought it meant being able to buy what I wanted, when I wanted it.  I thought it meant having an abundance of things, eating out…

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Tulku ~ official trailer.

By elephantjournal.com on Apr 19, 2009

I'm not right often, but I'm laying ratnas down on Gesar Mukpo's Tulku—it's going to Sundance, it's going wherever it wants. Tulku is directed by...a tulku (reincarnated Buddha, according to Buddhist tradition) pal o'mine,…

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Econo-Buddha Part I: Recession = Potential

By Henry Schliff on Mar 26, 2009

The legend of the Shakyamuni Buddha tells the story of his “great going forth,” or his renunciation of worldly life. And the steps leading to the renunciation are especially pertinent to contemporary America. If…

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The Economy of Spirituality, by Daniel Kempling.

By elephantjournal.com on Mar 11, 2009

As I write this piece, the news blares out a steady chant of economic doom and gloom with unmistakable excitement. Journalism is, after all, a trade that thrives on threat and catastrophe, reflecting our…

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Ken Wilber on the Ego (and he should know). Plus, funny photos.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 9, 2009

Ken Wilber, Integral Icon, on the Ego. Plus, a few funny photos. Ken Wilber is one of today's greatest philosophers, a towering man built like an athlete whose brain is bigger than elephantjournal dot…

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Uh-oh: Will Smith gets all Law of Attraction, Power of Positive Thinking on us. Videos.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 23, 2009

Another one bites the New Agey fairy-dust. Our thoughts are physical! Okay, okay, this stuff is great as long as it's not (Secret) wedded to materialism. If it's about being of benefit to others,…

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Book review: Return to the Sacred (Jonathan H. Ellerby, Ph.D.)

By Todd Mayville on Feb 2, 2009

Jonathan Ellerby, Spiritual Program Director for Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, has spent most of his life not only studying a range of spiritual practices, but also using what he has learned in his own life and…

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Ty Burhoe @ the first elephant talk show: “The Meaning of Music.”

By elephantjournal dotcom on Nov 21, 2008

From the Autumn '05 issue The below talk was given at elephant’s benefit for the Boulder Co-op, elephant:live. Those of you out there who practice music know that it has many different facets. Most…

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National Novel Writing Month.

By Ben Kowalsky on Nov 12, 2008

                "How're you comin on that novel you've been writing?" Regardless of how you may feel about Family Guy otherwise, its constant use of pop culture reference…

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Conscious Consumerism Considered

By Ryan Nadlonek on Sep 24, 2008

I'd love to go buy 7 different colors of OM t-shirts made from organic cotton and wear a different one every day. I crave food from exotic locals (goji berries) and I need healing herbs only…

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Review: Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science & Spirituality (B. Alan Wallace)

By Todd Mayville on Aug 14, 2008

For what seems a long time now, science and spirituality have seemingly been at odds, with each one trying to cancel out the other, especially in Western society. However, that hasn’t always been the…

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