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Health Food for the Mind?

August 2, 2016 by William Ferro

Health Food for the Mind?

Have you ever stopped to think about how your patterns of media consumption may be affecting your practice? Most yoga and meditation practitioners I know are motivated by the desire to unify body, mind, and spirit. A devoted yoga practice tends to result in a healthy, well­balanced body; meditation brings clarity of focus and a […]

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Imprinting Joy on the Earth

December 20, 2015 by William Ferro

Imprinting Joy on the Earth

We have inflicted a great deal of damage on the earth. The planet’s biosphere is the only one we know of that supports reflexively self-aware life forms. There may well be more, but for the moment this is it. Clearly we inter-are with the earth; we are made of the same elements. When we harm […]

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Stewardship or Dominion?

December 18, 2015 by William Ferro

Stewardship or Dominion?

It’s an unfortunate truth that some people can’t be happy if their ability to threaten or harm other conscious beings is in any way abridged. Of course, the notion that harm or threats of harm will make us happy is an illusion; what actually fulfills us as human beings is empowering and nurturing other beings– […]

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Thoughts from a Meditation Cushion

November 27, 2015 by William Ferro

Thoughts from a Meditation Cushion

I’m a happy humanist who engages in a spiritual practice based on compassion, self-care and the nurture of human and other sentient beings. I was thinking earlier today after meditating about the ways humanistic philosophy and holistic spirituality complement one another. That in turn led to some other thoughts! We’ve inherited the full range of primate […]

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Creative, Sane and Humane

May 3, 2015 by William Ferro

Creative, Sane and Humane

My favorite spiritual teacher happens to be the Buddhist monk,Thich Nhat Hahn. He has a radical take on the many troubling references to hell from the Jesus figure in the Christian Gospels. On this problem, Thomas Paine famously wrote, “I believe…that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of […]

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An Epicurean Feast for the Mind

January 22, 2015 by William Ferro

An Epicurean Feast for the Mind

“A philosopher’s words are empty if they do not heal the suffering of mankind. For just as medicine is useless if it does not remove sickness from the body, so philosophy is useless if it does not remove suffering from the soul.” How like the Buddha’s Dharma is the teaching of the Greek philosopher Epicurus! […]

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Nature’s Vast Web of Life

February 9, 2014 by William Ferro

Nature’s Vast Web of Life

On many occasions, I’ve heard people observing the behavior of chimpanzees and other Great Apes say, “Wow, that’s kind of scary.” Invariably, they’re talking about the clear similarities between these animals and ourselves. But why should our close kinship to our closest primate cousins inspire uneasiness, rather than wonder and amazement? The realization that our […]

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The Most Fundamental Attack on Our Essential Integrity

January 21, 2014 by William Ferro

The Most Fundamental Attack on Our Essential Integrity

And How to Deflect It Nonviolently It bears repeating, again and again, that human morality and ethics predate all forms of religion and philosophical schools. They are innate characteristics of Homo sapiens; their root can be seen in the reciprocity practiced by other primate species. The often-repeated epithet that we are incapable of behaving ethically […]

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Six Suggestions for Achieving Transcendent Joy

April 16, 2013 by William Ferro

We all desire transcendence, an encounter with the numinous, and a deep sense of meaning in our lives. As far as we know, we are the only animals that easily succumb to a state of despondency without a strong sense of meaning– the feeling that we are connected to something much larger than ourselves. These […]

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Yoga: A Historical Perspective – Part 2

February 12, 2013 by William Ferro

Yoga: A Historical Perspective – Part 2

“Classical Yoga” is the term given to the yoga school derived largely from Patanjali’s Yoga-Sûtra. This text, written in Sanskrit in about the second century of the Common Era, is essentially a collection of spiritual sayings. The word “sutra” (which translates as “thread”) is essentially analogous to what those in the Abrahamic tradition would call […]

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