Month: August 2019

• August 20, 2019

  Freedom Just Ain’t Enough

  Here’s a story I’ve heard many times over the years: someone is fed up with working for large corporations, something he has done for the past 20 years, and so dreams of being free. Finally, that person musters up the courage to leave finance, big tech, or some other industry and then strikes out on…
• August 19, 2019

  Everyone, Unknowingly, Has A Philosophy Of Life

  Everyone, that is, each one of us, has a philosophy of life that not only provides the coordinates for how one lives but also shows up in how one conducts oneself. For most people, this philosophy of life remains that to which they remain unaware. You might think, if this is true, that the best…
• August 17, 2019

  Podcast Interview: The Art Of Philosophizing And Teams

  Carissa Bub and and I have a lovely conversation about “The Art of Philosophizing & Teams” on The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. I hope you find it edifying.
• August 16, 2019

  Being Laced With

  The reality is that our selved experience is laced with dukkha. Dukkha, a Pali term used by the Buddha, refers to the basic unsatisfactoriness of experience, the feeling, as I’d say, of something being off, if only a little bit. When we say that “X is laced with Y,” we mean that Y occurs in small or…
• August 15, 2019

  Ecodharma And Our Climate Emergency

  During an interview with the Buddhist scholar David Loy yesterday, we were speaking about ecodharma, a neologism that tries to synthesize the teachings of the dharma with a commitment to ecological engagement. Loy thinks we have every reason to believe–and so he argues in his book Ecodharma–that we’re right in the thick of a climate…