Health & Wellness September 16, 2014 Benjamin Riggs How to Work w/ Your Suffering. The Four Noble Truths are a Buddhist presentation of the spiritual path that is meant to be accessible and pragmatic. The layout
Philosophy August 14, 2014 Benjamin Riggs The Mortal Wound of the Modern Church & Her Path to Recovery Tons of people are walking away from religion in the West. A recent Gallop poll found that in 2013 only 59% of Americans
Arts & Culture August 5, 2014 Benjamin Riggs My Psychic Imprint above painting : The Abyss of Hell by Sandro Botticelli ______________________________________________ Like a mist that drifts across the start of new
Health & Wellness July 24, 2014 Benjamin Riggs How Can We Cultivate a More Mindful & Compassionate Way of Life? The Mind Training Practices of Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan mind training is a set of practices based on roughly 59 proverbs formulated by
Philosophy July 17, 2014 Benjamin Riggs Is Fellowship Essential for Spiritual Growth? Or Can We Do It All Alone? In silence we come back to our Self. We leave behind the noise and speed of the life we are anxiously planning for
Arts & Culture July 11, 2014 Reader Submission Quanta: a Temporary Lull in the Painfulness of Living by Timothy Snell Sometimes I feel like I am on the edge of dissolving Into the quanta constituents that make me up. A bunch of
Health & Wellness July 10, 2014 Reader Submission Meditation: What it is & What it Ain’t by Michael Scott Six years ago this month, I meditated for the first time. I’d like to think I’ve learned a few things about the
Health & Wellness June 25, 2014 Benjamin Riggs How & Why Stress Affects Your Health and How to Better Manage It “Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear
Philosophy June 12, 2014 Benjamin Riggs Confessions of A Buddhist Dumb-A%$ My life as a spiritual materialist. The first book I ever read by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was “Glimpses of Abidharma.” About half
Health & Wellness June 9, 2014 Benjamin Riggs The Difference Between Spirituality & Self-Help Dr. Phil, Diets, & the Gym, oh my! We more or less go through life assuming that there is some gigantic problem—