Michael Levin's Blog Posts Tagged 'spirit' (51)

I was told that the chapter on Training the Mind in Sogyal Rinpoche's "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" was a great intro to meditation. The nice thing is that you can read a lot of it on the web …

Note: The video works now!



Rhiannon Hull and running are synonymous. If you like the idea of pushing yourself to the limits and reaching some, this story will take you there. Read the story first, then…

I was walking in the garden the other day and I found a little booklet in the grass. It's called "Steps Toward Inner Peace", by Peace Pilgrim. I found several aspects of the booklet interesting. For one thing, it's written by a contemporary woman who says making money was easy for her. She chose to give up a conventional material pursuit in favor of a life spent trying to be happy and…

I just wrote an article for Elephant Journal about my new friend and musician Lauris Vidal. Click here to read it and please let me know what you think - either here or on the Ele…

Elephant Journal has provided us with a link to a wonderful talk by…

Think Differently!

Day 1: 

Feel. Try this: Have a…

Chi Gung is a form of exercise that I learned about here in Seaside, OR at the Seaside Hostel. Trung, the instructor, said Chi Gung is the alphabet, Tai Chi is the language. Nice!

Wherever You Go There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn is a good book explaining one man’s view of meditation…

{Note: this article was originally published here on Elephant Journal}

 Meditation can be as simple as you like. Basically, we know meditation is all about clearing our mind for a time. It’s hard to not think about…

Yesterday I had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. I often cycle to one of many lakes near sunset. This evening there were surprises in store! Firstly, the sunset itself was amazing.

"The Dalai Lama shows no anger toward the Chinese, even though the policy of the Chinese government for years has been to practice genocide toward Tibetans, culturicide toward their institutions, beliefs, everything they hold dear, and geocode toward the very land they live on. When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward…

(Photo of two otters playing at Alexander Springs, FL taken by Michael Levin 2/19/11)

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around, it comes to you. When it comes to you, stretch out your hand gently, take a portion of it politely, but pass it on. Or, it has not come to you yet. Do not…

That's Ibrahim doing water yoga. Those of you who follow the Zoobird reading lists will notice four new links: the first one is about the series of moves called the Sun Salutation, which Sh'mal just taught me this week and I love already. There's also a link to a video…

Today’s {BotD} Bike of the Day is a Brompton folding bike…

Bromptons have been around for years. They’re made in England. I spotted this one at the Hawthorne Hostel in Portland, Oregon. It’s not the first folding bike I’ve seen at the

hostel. Last year, another traveler came on a Dahon he loved so much he

had it chrome plated!…

I had just finished a trip to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo and then Morocco. Came back to NYC, staying on E14th Street at the hostel. It

was a quiet mid-morning on Sunday, I believe. I walked from the hostel to a coffee shop, then to a park.

And, on the way back, I looked up and saw this guy lying…

Interesting perspective here. I'm chewing on it. What do you think of the assertions that "not speaking English" is isolating and "English is
becoming the universal language"? See http://www.englishffl.org/