COMPASSIONATE PRACTICES
Mindfulness meditation offers us the invaluable opportunity to awaken to each present moment as it happens, sit with whatever arises in your life with acceptance and curiosity, and cultivate kindness and compassion for our fellow living beings. Here you can find my musings, dharma talks, and suggested practices for the mind and heart, as well as my courses and workshops.
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#FacultyVigil Tomorrow Night at My Office
My colleague and new friend Ron Hassner, who teachers political science at Berkeley, has been sleeping in his office for more than a week. Ron is protesting against the university’s
Hat er gesagt
A few years ago, during a summer visit to Israel, we took my then-toddler to the beach. He waded and splashed and, at some point, when the elastic on his
Arresting Folks with Unsettled Lives
I recently came across an interesting Fourth Circuit case dealing with a situation that is probably quite common: what sort of constitutional protection do people have when their living situation
The Elusive Body Recomposition Quest
The vegan fitness world is aflutter and atwitter about a new documentary miniseries on Netflix called You Are What You Eat: A Twins Experiment. The show follows a recent Stanford
AJS Annual Meeting, Day 3
What a wonderful day I’ve had at the AJS meeting today! I highly recommend that every academic attend an annual meeting as if they were attending a science fiction or
AJS Annual Meeting: Day 2
Another fascinating day at the AJS Annual Meeting, in which I learned a lot – including about issues surprisingly close to home. The first panel, Holocaust in Art and Literature,