Oct
28
I wrote a blog post at EcoStreet last week about Buy Nothing Day 2007. If you aren’t familiar with BND, it’s a 24-hour detox from consumption, but it’s also more importantly an opportunity to connect with your consumer conscience, for some perhaps even a life changing experience.
When the blog post was submitted to Digg [...]
My little list of bookmarked links is growing longer and longer, it’s time to share.
The Zen of Running, and 10 Ways to Make It Work for You at Internet Redux
The Zen Bookshelf at Cheerio Road
Buddhist Economics at Fat Knowledge
The Parent’s Little List of Trust at Cheerio Road
Among Other Things at Tricycle
Einstein’s Quotes on Buddhism at [...]
Prompted by Peter at Large from The Buddha Diaries, who has initiated an “inspirational teachers” meme, here is my tribute to teachers who have been there for me.
I was that much of a reprobate during my school years that I didn’t give any teacher the opportunity to engage with me, even if they had tried [...]
Oct
15
It’s Blog Action Day, a day when thousands of bloggers from all over the world are blogging for one common purpose: our planet.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi
The environment has been a priority in my life for as long as I can remember. I’ve [...]
Q: Why don’t Buddhists vacuum in the corners?
A: Because they have no attachments.
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Oct
11
MJ Rose, author of The Reincarnationist and the blog post below, has kindly offered a copy of her new book as a giveaway prize to one Zen Housewife reader.
If you’d like your name in the hat for the draw, please email me at tracy[at]zenhousewife[dot]com (replacing [at] with @ and [dot] with .) by the 14th [...]
This is a guest post by author MJ Rose.
When I was three years old, I told my great grandfather things about his childhood in Russia that there was simply no way I could have known.
He became convinced I was a reincarnation of someone in his past. And over time, after more incidents, my mother – [...]
Over the summer months I’ve been erratic both with my meditation practice and with posting to this blog. As the seasons turn and we’re heading indoors to keep warm, I’m also feeling a return happening within myself as I come back to myself and my meditation practice. And with that I’m coming back [...]