COMPASSIONATE PRACTICES
Mindfulness meditation offers us the invaluable opportunity to awaken to each present moment as it happens, sit with whatever arises in your life with acceptance and curiosity, and cultivate kindness and compassion for our fellow living beings. Here you can find my musings, dharma talks, and suggested practices for the mind and heart, as well as my courses and workshops.
Upcoming Workshops
California Correction Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak, Day 1
February 5 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Writings
Policing and Experience: Why We Should Teach Mindfulness to New Cops
This morning brings an interesting story by Megan Cassidy of the Chronicle. The story compares two recent cases in which San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin brought charges against officers in
Noblesse Oblige and the “Dr.” Controversy
On my second day of law school, in 1992, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, one of the most admired and respected civil rights academic heroes in Israel, came to our first-ever criminal
When Ya Gotta Go, Ya Gotta Go: Bodily Functions as a Gateway to Compassion
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe
Who Threatens Academic Freedom? Adventures in Cancel Culture
Renowned Buddhist scholar and teacher Pema Chödrön tells of her correspondence with Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist scholar on Death Row. In one of his letters, Masters describes watching angry
Uncomfortable Telling your Child that Meat Comes from Animals? Don’t Eat Animals
I try to be patient with the travails of parenting. Trust me, I have plenty of my own. But massive hypocrisies get my last nerve. See this parenting column from
The New Salem
Many years after writing his play The Crucible, Arthur Miller reflected in the New Yorker: In any play, however trivial, there has to be a still point of moral reference