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How to See Strangers as Allies, Not Threats
May 19, 2020 in 10% Happier
Feeling Your Emotions in the Body
April 22, 2020 in 10% Happier
Meditation and Coronavirus
March 16, 2020 in 10% Happier
What Parenting Has Taught Me About Mindfulness
February 13, 2020 in 10% Happier
What is Jewish Spirituality? What matters in Jewish spiritual practice is less the experience itself than what we do with it.
January 23, 2020 in My Jewish Learning
The Most Important Word in Meditation
January 14, 2020 in 10% Happier
It’s the Turn of the Decade and Times are Tough
December 18, 2019 in 10% Happier
Leonard Cohen’s Profound, Posthumous Farewell
November 29, 2019 in Daily Beast
The Deep End
November 12, 2019 in 10% Happier
When Monsters Attack (for real)
October 22, 2019 in 10% Happier
Stop Seeking
September 24, 2019 in 10% Happier
Where Should I Meditate?
September 05, 2019 in 10% Happier
Gay Yoga Guru Johnson Chong Can Help Sort Out Your Karma and Dharma
August 25, 2019 in Daily Beast
On Forcing the Breath
August 12, 2019 in 10% Happier
What Does “Progress” in Meditation Look Like?
July 23, 2019 in 10% Happier
These ‘Men in Black’ Think Aliens Made Your iPhone
July 02, 2019 in Daily Beast
What Does Mindfulness Have to do with Pride Month?
June 25, 2019 in 10% Happier
Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
June 21, 2019 in Reading Religion
Meditation and Climate Change
June 04, 2019 in 10% Happier
A Birthday Contemplation
May 14, 2019 in 10% Happier
Why Conservatives Keep Getting Anti-Semitism Wrong
April 29, 2019 in Daily Beast
When the World Falls Apart
April 16, 2019 in 10% Happier
The Wisdom of Spring
April 02, 2019 in 10% Happier
Don’t Just Sit There: An Introduction to Walking Meditation
March 13, 2019 in 10% Happier
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say…
March 05, 2019 in 10% Happier
Relaxation is Not Enough
February 21, 2019 in 10% Happier
Meditation is Marie Kondo for your Mind
January 31, 2019 in 10% Happier
Vampires!
January 17, 2019 in 10% Happier
How to Actually Keep Your Resolution to Meditate
December 27, 2018 in 10% Happier
Actually Having a Happy Holiday
December 13, 2018 in 10% Happier
Quiet, Please
November 29, 2018 in 10% Happier
Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving
November 21, 2018 in 10% Happier
Who is the “Witness”?
November 14, 2018 in 10% Happier
Remembering Bernie Glassman – a Zen Mensch
November 05, 2018 in Forward
Holding Trump Accountable for Pittsburgh Isn’t Politicizing the Attack: It’s Sanity
November 01, 2018 in Daily Beast
Be a Mindful Voter
November 01, 2018 in 10% Happier
Trump Visits Site of the Deadliest Attack on Jews in U.S. History, Says Nothing and Takes No Responsibility
October 30, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trick-or-Treating in Your Mind
October 25, 2018 in 10% Happier
Tech Sanity, Part Two: Mindful Speech Online
October 18, 2018 in 10% Happier
How to Survive the News
October 04, 2018 in 10% Happier
Are you a Zoë or a Zelda?
September 27, 2018 in 10% Happier
The Wisdom of Autumn
September 20, 2018 in 10% Happier
You Can’t Beat the Critic
September 13, 2018 in 10% Happier
Right Now, It’s Like This
September 06, 2018 in 10% Happier
Making Boredom Your Friend
August 30, 2018 in 10% Happier
Catching Doubt Before It Catches You
August 16, 2018 in 10% Happier
Summer Reading for Saner Minds
August 09, 2018 in 10% Happier
Tech Sanity #1 : Mindful Phoning
July 19, 2018 in 10% Happier
What’s the Difference Between Meditation and Mindfulness?
July 12, 2018 in 10% Happier
How to Meditate in Summertime
July 05, 2018 in 10% Happier
Buddhism’s LGBT history
July 02, 2018 in Tricycle
Philip Roth Turned the Sentence Into an Art Form
May 23, 2018 in Daily Beast
Thank You for Burning Man, Larry Harvey
April 29, 2018 in Daily Beast
Byron Katie Wants You to Ask if Everything You Know is Wrong
January 05, 2018 in Daily Beast
How To Survive Your Trump-Supporting Relatives This Holiday Season
September 25, 2017 in Forward
The Secret, Multicultural History of Rosh Hashanah
September 20, 2017 in Daily Beast
Isis Unveiled: The Heretical Gnosticism of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’
September 20, 2017 in Forward
Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the Teachings of Jacob Frank
September 08, 2017 in Modern Judaism
Can Virtual Reality Help You Reach Enlightenment?
July 20, 2017 in Tricycle
Working Through the Strong Emotions of Sexual Identity
June 22, 2017 in Tricycle
You’ll Need a New Haggadah for Trump’s America
April 03, 2017 in Forward
Why You Should Invite President Trump Into Your Meditation Practice
March 30, 2017 in Tricycle
Can We Be Smarter About Anti-Semitism?
March 23, 2017 in Forward
The Fifth Precept in the Age of Facebook and Trump
March 07, 2017 in Tricycle
Andrew Ramer Is One of Our Most Righteous Men
January 29, 2017 in Forward
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ Explores Faith When God Keeps Quiet
January 05, 2017 in Forward
The Dharma of Westworld
December 07, 2016 in Tricycle
Retreat or Fight? Both are Right.
November 28, 2016 in Tricycle
For We Were Strangers in Egypt: The Jewish Imperative for Justice
October 27, 2016 in Huffington Post
Jhana: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing
September 22, 2016 in Tricycle
Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah This Year
September 15, 2016 in Forward
What Does Meditation Have To Do With Fighting ISIS Terror?
November 23, 2015 in Forward
Why Judaism is Most Meaningful in Times of Grief
October 03, 2015 in Forward
Let’s Stop Being Embarrassed by Spirituality
October 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
In Praise of Self-Helpless
October 01, 2015 in Reality Sandwich
Tibetan Monk Dies in Prison, and a Thousand Tibetans Take to the Streets
July 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Russian City Bans Yoga, Calling It a Cult
July 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
We’re meditating all wrong, says ‘Buddha from Brooklyn’
June 04, 2015 in Religion News Service
Can Monks Really Go Into 200-Year Trances?
February 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
It’s Time for the Jewish Megachurch
January 25, 2015 in Forward
Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Captures the Spirit of the Time
July 24, 2014 in Forward
How the LGBT Experience Will Transform the Practice of Mindfulness
June 17, 2014 in Huffington Post
Why Do Jews Meditate? It’s All in the Worrying!
May 26, 2014 in Forward
The Perils of Hope (Shma)
March 01, 2014 in Jewish Publications (other)
Why Jews Should Tune In to the Mindfulness Revolution
February 03, 2014 in Forward
David Cooper, Father of BuJu
January 02, 2014 in Forward
Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure
November 14, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Occupy the Dharma: How Contemplative Practice Will Save the World
November 14, 2013 in Tikkun
The Shocking Scandal at the Heart of American Zen
November 14, 2013 in Daily Beast
Zen and the Art of the BuJu
November 08, 2013 in Forward
Meditation isn’t a “hippie indulgence”
November 03, 2013 in Salon
Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology
October 22, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Was Goenka a Guru?
October 14, 2013 in Huffington Post
S.N. Goenka: The Man who Taught the World to Meditate
September 30, 2013 in Huffington Post
Meditation: Natural or Unnatural?
August 12, 2013 in Huffington Post
“To the Wonder”: Terrence Malick’s Mystical Lens
April 19, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Let’s Get Real: Wisdom 2.0 Wraps Up
February 25, 2013 in Tricycle
The Dharma is Out of Control
February 23, 2013 in Tricycle
Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?
February 22, 2013 in Tricycle
Wisdom 2.0 Opens With a Challenge
February 22, 2013 in Tricycle
Get Ready for Jewish iSpirituality
February 06, 2013 in Forward
Beyond ‘Letting Go’
September 09, 2012 in Huffington Post
Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times
June 20, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
How is a “Spiritual Person” Supposed to Act?
April 19, 2012 in Reality Sandwich
The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet: The rationalist prejudice against spirituality
January 17, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Airport Security and Non-Self
November 30, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Religious Duty to Come Out
October 11, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Is Life But a Dream?
August 08, 2011 in Reality Sandwich
Integration isn’t Everything
July 15, 2011 in Reality Sandwich
Boredom: A Gift for the Soul?
May 16, 2011 in Huffington Post
After Passover, The Exodus To True Spiritual Freedom Continues
April 25, 2011 in Huffington Post
Nonduality, Neuroscience, and Postmodernism: The Dream of the Self
April 11, 2011 in Reality Sandwich
‘All is One’ in Traffic Jams
March 15, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Path to Enlightenment: Sometimes Assertion, Sometimes Surrender
March 03, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Problem of Spiritual Experience: Is Mysticism in the Mind of the Beholder?
January 14, 2011 in Forward
Defining God Upward
October 01, 2010 in Hadassah
Meditation and “Drugs”
September 07, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
Why it’s good for Jews to Meditate
August 20, 2010 in Zeek
Simple Truths vs. Esoteric Ones
August 09, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
A Better Way to Believe in God
June 17, 2010 in Huffington Post
Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World
June 15, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones
June 11, 2010 in Huffington Post
Meditation on the Run
May 24, 2010 in Huffington Post
Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta
May 23, 2010 in Zeek
Nonduality in Buddhism and Judaism
May 03, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 10: The Kabbalah of Inspiration
April 02, 2010 in Huffington Post
28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright
February 27, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
Are People Good At Heart?
February 21, 2010 in Huffington Post
LGBTs are in All of Israel — Not Just Tel Aviv
January 15, 2010 in Hadassah
Not a Guide, but an Example: Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing (JBooks)
January 01, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Meaning of Avatar: Everything is God (A Response to Ross Douthat and other naysayers of ‘pantheism’)
December 22, 2009 in Huffington Post
How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas … Because Of Paganism
December 21, 2009 in Huffington Post
Impermanence
December 11, 2009 in Zeek
Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West
December 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff
November 10, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Religion is Actually Spirituality
October 28, 2009 in Forward
Fetishizing the Trigger
October 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?
September 29, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Jhanas: Meditative Absorptions
September 11, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew
September 11, 2009 in Forward
The Truth About Burning Man
September 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity
August 27, 2009 in Zeek
Is Guilt a Good Thing?
August 24, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Emptiness of Anger
July 27, 2009 in Huffington Post
Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
July 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Eat Your Way to Enlightenment
July 14, 2009 in Huffington Post
Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win
July 10, 2009 in Forward
How a Dog Taught me the Dharma
July 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature
July 02, 2009 in Zeek
G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha
June 17, 2009 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Body of Being
June 12, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime
June 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence
May 18, 2009 in Huffington Post
Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut
April 20, 2009 in Huffington Post
Shifting from Myth to Function
April 15, 2009 in Forward
Liberation from Passover
April 10, 2009 in Torah Queeries
What is the Real World, Anyway
April 06, 2009 in Huffington Post
Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View
March 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
February 27, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2
February 05, 2009 in Zeek
Sick Enough for Spirituality
January 30, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1
January 29, 2009 in Zeek
Is Life but a Dream
December 22, 2008 in Zeek
The Gifts of Boredom
December 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Why Ramakrishna Matters
November 28, 2008 in Zeek
Spirituality as Satanism
November 24, 2008 in Zeek
Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils
November 19, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Answers in the Seekers’ Language
September 19, 2008 in Forward
Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
September 09, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Against Integration
August 15, 2008 in Zeek
You are God in Drag: Eleven Notes Before and After Retreat
July 29, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Monogamy and Monotheism
June 30, 2008 in Zeek
Fresh Baked Bread
June 27, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey
June 03, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
The Gods of Drowning
May 21, 2008 in Jewcy
Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils
May 19, 2008 in Literary Journals
Getting Serious About Love
April 17, 2008 in Forward
God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)
April 04, 2008 in Maariv
Polytheism and Nonduality
March 21, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
March 01, 2008 in Zeek
Ayahuasca and Kabbalah
January 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality
January 07, 2008 in Jewcy
A Balancing Meditation: Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet (BeliefNet)
January 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)
A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris
November 01, 2007 in Zeek
Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance
October 05, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
The New Atheism: What’s a Liberal, Spiritual Jew to Do?
September 26, 2007 in Forward
The Gifts of Boredom
September 01, 2007 in Zeek
Entering the Gate of Sadness
August 01, 2007 in Zeek
Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
July 01, 2007 in Zeek
Fasting from a Functional Perspective
June 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality
May 04, 2007 in Forward
Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
February 01, 2007 in Zeek
YHVH Means What Is: Integrating Judaism and Buddhism, and Why I Bother
January 01, 2007 in Literary Journals
Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum
December 29, 2006 in Forward
Kashrut and Nonduality
November 01, 2006 in Zeek
Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness
August 01, 2006 in Zeek
Fear of Fun
June 01, 2006 in Zeek
Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities
May 12, 2006 in Forward
Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It
May 01, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Freedom of Being
April 01, 2006 in Zeek
Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable
March 01, 2006 in Zeek
Fresh Baked Bread: Ideas about the thing, and the thing itself
November 01, 2005 in Zeek
Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism
October 01, 2005 in Zeek
Guilt and Groundedness: Religion, guilt, and the geology of the self
September 01, 2005 in Zeek
Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word
June 10, 2005 in Forward
Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God? Mysticism, nonduality, and what we can learn through meditation
June 01, 2005 in Zeek
Star Wars, George Bush, Judaism, and the Penis- From Baal and Asherah to Neo-cons and the Sith
June 01, 2005 in Zeek
Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes
April 01, 2005 in Zeek
Eating Meditation for Passover
April 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)
Shakey: An Essay on Anger- Working with anger on the contemplative path
March 01, 2005 in Zeek
I Still Believe that People are Good at Heart: Spirituality and human nature
February 01, 2005 in Zeek
The Buddha from Brooklyn: A lama talks about enlightenment… with a Yiddish twang
November 26, 2004 in Forward
The Holy Fool: How One Writer Conveys Spiritual Truths That Are Seriously Funny
November 19, 2004 in Forward
Am I Religious? Religion, spirituality, and living as if it mattered
November 05, 2004 in Zeek
The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism
August 01, 2004 in Zeek
How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart
June 01, 2004 in Zeek
Secrets of the Rebbetzin
May 14, 2004 in Forward
You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat
February 01, 2004 in Zeek
Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth
January 01, 2004 in Zeek
Energy
November 01, 2003 in Zeek
High Holy Days: Rabbi Cowan Speaks Out About Meditation, Action and New Job
September 26, 2003 in Forward