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The Typo
In the winter of 2009 I sat in my apartment, a package ripped open in front of me, literally sweating with pride. My brand-new book was in-hand, freshly shipped from my publisher. It was a moment I had waited my entire adult life for — to be published, and to have the book, real and tactile [...]
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The Scalper and the Angel
I went to a show in Denver last weekend, a great event by the band Beats Antique (highly recommended). I decided that I would wait to get my ticket until I got there, for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. Sara, my girlfriend, had a ticket from a friend, so we only needed one ticket total [...]
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Poem from my Father
My father spent his life in corporate America, and the end of his career coincided with the implosion of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000′s. This poem was inspired by the men and women he saw lose their jobs, and how those actions were justified by his company’s executives. It’s a heart-felt and powerful [...]
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Why the Dharma Should be Sold
At the start of the 21st Century, those of us in the so-called “business of spirituality” face an interesting dilemma. For millennia, in teaching the dharma (or Buddhist teachings) it has been greatly frowned upon to charge for teachings. My own teacher, Jun Po Roshi, runs his Mondo Zen organization very much this way, with [...]
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