Rusty Ring

I've been listening to a podcast about cults, the primary sin of which (as well as many so-called mainstream congregations, inclu...

Since many readers of this blog are engaged in creative endeavours, I would like, on this day of American Thanksgiving, to share a C...

Three years ago almost to the day, I wrote here about the Winston Churchill Effect – that odd mass hysteria that causes whole nations ...

Recently heard on Bhante Sujato's Dhammanet podcast (available from the website and the usual aggregators): "A man found a...

I recently happened upon an interesting moment in Season 6, Episode 4, of Gimlet Media's Startup podcast. (Transcript here ; downloa...

(For an overview of solitary sesshin, see Part I . For meal planning tips, see Part III .) Planning is the difference between a sust...

This is the mouthpiece of the Insight Meditation lineage maintained by Gil Fronsdal. (I have no idea what titles are in play or how the h...

San Francisco is the capital of Western Zen. The sangha there – the Western one; Asian residents were already practicing for over a centu...

Update, 2023 16 November: Unfortunately this source has gone pay-to-play, and all shared podcasts I've been able to uncover are...

You gotta love Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera . He's a forest monk, albeit not of the hermit lineage. In a West dominated by Zen, Vipassa...