Category: Featured

  • Sincerity

    A while ago I watched a documentary called “Unwinking Gaze” (you can find some youtube clips) which gives an intimate perspective into the Dalai Lama and his close circle of advisors. The movie is offered as a means for every viewer to assess the sincerity of the Dalai Lama’s dealing with China (as a counter…

  • No More Financial Transactions

    A purely financial transaction is one in which nothing is created – money (or a potential for money) changes hands. It is like a game of chess in which moves are selected, sacrifices made all for the sake of one goal – victory (and defeat – depends on which side of the table you are…

  • Geek Retreat

    Give your mind a great ride – your body! 5 day retreat for technology leaders & entrepreneurs What is a retreat? It is an opportunity to take some time for yourself, to step back (retreat!) from your familiar day-to-day patterns and … well … see what happens. Is it a vacation? Yes the idea is…

  • 42nd Street – Art & Business

    Most of my life I didn’t get art…I was completely alienated from Art, instead of inspiring me it mocked me and left me feeling that I was not yet mature enough to appreciate it…I reclaimed “Art” and gave it my own personal context – rooted in direct and involved experience. Business was one of the…

  • Disruptive

    The Internet hasn’t induced a qualitative change, it has (so far) been an amplifier of what is already there…This wonderful amplification afforded by the internet is reflecting back to us what we are – and it’s doing it painfully loud and clear – more then ever before. Everything gets amplified, the mediocre things and the…

  • Paper Mills & Server-Farms

    If you strip down facebook – you will find an online hosting service – maybe one of the worlds largest – but still an online hosting service – instead of paper-mills you they run server-farms (ironi to find the word farms in this context!). It provides hosting based on the same core business-model that newspapers…

  • Let’s do Twitter

    Twitter is getting bigger but it is not getting better. Twitter is dying, at least the good part is… When Twitter started out it had a magical force working for it – it was unknown, which puts it right up against magical… Twitter gravitated into intellectual patters of usage – intellectual people started playing around…

  • Bend your Mind

    The conviction that there is a real you is a result of the fact that you have rallied everything you’ve got around your reason. At this point your reason admits that the nagual is the indescribable, not because the evidence has convinced it, but because it is safe to admit that. Your reason is on…

  • Enemy

    An(other) former government minister was sentenced today to 4 years imprisonment … He was(is?) a member of a religious political party who was been swaying with (and been swayed by) Israeli politics for many years… Politicians who bring their spiritual (religious) beliefs and practices into politics are most probably making a (conscious or unconscious) sacrifice.…

  • 10% of a Guitar

    When my friend creates a guitar and exchanges it – the exchange is an isolated, complete, beautiful and natural entity. When money is involved, it opens a door for other interests that are foreign to that exchange – a financial abstraction is born and has a life of its own. You can take 10% of…

  • A Teaching Model

    …we are born inside a bubble. It is a bubble into which we are placed at the moment of our birth. At first the bubble is open, but then it begins to close until it has sealed us in. That bubble is our perception. We live inside that bubble all of our lives. And what…

  • Yoga & Change

    … a Samskara is a whole impression created & left-behind by experience. This includes a sense of memory, feelings, thoughts, energies, etc. I see it as an endless rippling effect. Every experience continues, one way or another, to resonate within – eternally … Vasana is a potential for behavior – I think of it as…

  • Ahimsa with a Twist

    A literal translation of Ahimsa is non-violence … What if there is a deeper intent to the idea of Ahimsa? one that appeals to heart instead of mind? What if a key to Ahimsa is actually intent and not definition? What if Ahimsa is actually an intent of non-violence? That small change can make a…

  • Home

    For months I’ve been playing around with this post in my head – it is about a wish. Over the last two weeks this wish has taken a turn and matured into something I can embrace and share. I wish for a home for myself and for Andreea and a family that may grow from…

  • Contract

    “A key factor that contributes to difficulties in creative collaboration is a problem with contract. The contract is an energy bond that appears at beginnings. It represents an agreement between participants where each participant commits to playing a particular role in the fulfillment of the others’ destiny. Disagreement, misunderstanding, or desire to change these roles…

  • How FEM Happened – Faith & Fear

    FEM is an online application designed to assist women who take an interest in what is often called Fertility Awareness Method. This is a journey of awareness which begins in the physical body and the changes it goes through during a woman’s menstrual cycle. It embodies, like other tools of awareness, a potential to open…

  • Motivation & Mind

    It’s great to be in a position where you want to understand something. This is a situation in which two great things are happening for you. First something is shimmering for you and catching your attention. Second you are motivated to get your mind around it – to create an understanding. You now have energy…

  • Static Quality – Stuff of Life

    Before Dynamic Quality Last time I wrote about quality I focused on Dynamic Quality. This time I want to focus on Static Quality. I often catch myself favoring Dynamic Quality over Static Quality – and I know this to be a misapprehension. I cherish moments in which I experience Dynamic Quality – they are a…

  • Energy – Quality instead of Quantity

    Starting a new Yoga series of posts. This time the topic of energy is shimmering for me. As always the ideas I bring here are my take on teachings I have received from my teachers. I have made them mine and you are welcome to make them yours. So I’ll start by shattering a myth…

  • Tat Tvam Asi

    Great sequence of twitter statuses (all happened close together with only 2 additional statuses I removed to create a focus). If you are not used to twitter – the sequence is in reverse chronological order. @whatleydude – I have not found a way to represent myself in a 160 character bio and I have stopped…