September 1, 2010 – 10:40 am
On the New York Times Opinionator blog today, Robert Wright (author of The Evolution of God) writes:
A week of silent meditation can help highlight how technology keeps us in its grip, and what some of the costs of our ongoing surrender are.
Wright speaks from personal experience. His online piece, titled “Mind the Grid,” is [...]
August 27, 2010 – 7:29 pm
A new piece from the editor of the Sweden-based Asian Tribune (published by the World Institute for Asian Studies) makes no bones about the Tribune’s feelings about Dharma-Burgers, or examples of Buddhist ideas or images being used in marketing and/or advertising. (I can only imagine how they might react to that term in and of [...]
August 27, 2010 – 2:14 pm
Glenn Beck likes to say that the date of his “Restoring Honor” rally tomorrow — to be held at the Lincoln Monument, on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech — is a coincidence. He also offers that he’s “no MLK” — no kidding! — but he has [...]
August 20, 2010 – 12:46 pm
I’ve seen a lot of references to meditation and/or Buddhism in advertising over my past few years of tracking them. Some, arguably, have been inspired. Some have been funny. Some have been perhaps unfortunate, or even inappropriate.
As for what word might best describe this new commercial… all I’ve got, at first blush, is “weird.” Click [...]
August 17, 2010 – 1:13 pm
On my Buddhism-and-pop-culture website, The Worst Horse, I’ve done a lot of writing about what we (the site’s readers and I) call “Dharma-Burgers.” You can click here for the description via Urban Dictionary but, simply put, a Dharma-Burger is an example — dubious or not — of Buddhist imagery or ideas that is being put [...]
As Lani Rowe of New York’s Interdependence Project tells us:
“The IDP has decided to go full throttle and upgrade our website to provide a more conducive environment for advanced user interaction. Although it will feature a new online store – complete with environmentally friendly schwag – and a highly interactive events calendar, the real crown [...]
We discussed him here on Shambhala SunSpace the other day; now the comedian, a hit on NBC TV’s Last Comic Standing, talks to the Shambhala Sun about comedy and Buddhism — and the unique way he brings them together — in an interview recorded just before the Last Comic Standing finals.
If you’ve only seen [...]
On NBC’s Last Comic Standing — a reality TV show where comedians compete to be, well, the last comic standing — the gruff Mike DeStefano, a seasoned comic, has become an audience favorite. And actually, it’s clear that the comedian’s persona is just that — a persona; at heart he’s a big softy and a [...]
Is “comedian’s comedian” Garry Shandling a Buddhist? Well, as Amy Wallace writes in her new profile of the comedian for GQ magazine, he “stops short” of labeling himself that way, but is “a serious student of dharma.” Whether you’re a serious student of dharma or just of comedy, you won’t want to miss the profile, [...]
It’s in Japanese. I don’t speak Japanese. But my awesomeness detector is going off nonetheless.
Click the image shown here or this link. And tell us: what do you think? Does this look good to you? And did you read the multivolume series from which the film is derived?
We here at the Shambhala Sun are big fans of the “Buddho-blogosphere” – that is, we love to see the diversity and dialogue that’s manifesting among the online sangha of Buddhist bloggers. And quite a sangha it is: there are monks and nuns and teachers and students and dabblers, all interacting and making their voices [...]
His Holiness the Dalai Lama did the Today show, “his first live morning show interview ever.” Video follows, and here’s a report from Today themselves.
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So: what do you think? When you see a media moment like this, how does it make you feel? Hopeful? [...]
In case you missed it, ABC TV’s FlashForward replicated a moment that’s happened many a time in real life: one person who’s gone through a hard time recommends Pema Chodron’s classic book The Places That Scare You to another person who’s going through a hard time.
If you have access to Hulu (some don’t!) you can [...]
Thanks to my friend Sam DeWitt, who sent news of this video clip with the message “Here is Josh Korda (our teacher at NYC Dharma Punx) interviewed on CBS Doc Dot Com. America will never be the same!”
CBS’s own caption for the clip: “Dharma Punx in New York City mixes the tradition of Buddhism with [...]
As I’ve reported here before, a new Buddha biopic was being planned, and then was shelved, by Indian filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker. It was to be “the most expensive Bollywood movie ever made”; Will Smith’s son was rumored to be playing the young Siddhartha… then, it withered on the vine.
But now it’s back, a website has [...]
