This is the second half of the equation that began with the previous podcast: “Change You, Change the World.†Because everything exists in interdependence (and not independently), it is also true that if we change the world, we change ourselves. But how do we do this? At one level, we change ourselves when see ourselves Read More
Month: July 2014
Change You, Change the World
While in Massachusetts this summer, I had the chance to speak to a group in North Reading, most of whom were friends of Jon Weir – an incredible person and the owner of Kitty’s restaurant which he opened up to the event. The talk I gave there came straight out of a section of “Be Read More
Discontentment and the Compulsion to Act
It’s been interesting to discover how much resistance there is to thinking of contentment as the real goal of a spiritual life. This extract from a teaching I gave in Brooklyn last month makes the case that it is precisely the need – the compulsion – we feel to always have to do something to Read More
The Cult of Busyness
I thought it would be a propos to give a talk on the “cult of busyness†in New York City, the adrenaline capital of the world as part of the summer, 2014, “Be Nobody†book tour. This is an extract from that talk, given at Ava Gerber’s “Lucky Lotus†yoga center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Read More