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One Minute Meditation – Cambridge Bloom

This week’s one minute meditation was filmed from work at Foundation Medicine in Cambridge Massachusetts.  I arrived early to teach the morning meditation class I offer.  When I sat down to my desk and looked up, I was randomly drawn in by the window view of the flowering trees being gently showered by the first rain of May. I woke up for the moment.

 

The Morning’s First 

So many pass by

breathes taken yet unnoticed

Windows light inhaled

 The song “Instrumental #2 Revisited” by Gillicuddy (http://gillicuddy.bandcamp.com/) is used under the creative commons “Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.”

 
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New Book: Western Lights – A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism

Slated for May 2014 Release

Western Lights is a collection of essays from the viewpoint of a western Buddhist teacher.  It speaks about eastern concepts like Karma, Hope, Attachment, and Emptiness from a personal perspective and in terms familiar to Americans. They’re grounded in subject matter familiar to Americans like Politics, Science, Psychology, Heaven, and Nature.

I hope to help the reader find a personal connection to this ancient tradition and discover what it has to say about the challenges of contemporary life.

Book Basics

Title: Western Lights – A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism
Author: Andrew Furst
Genre: Meditation / Western Buddhism
ISBN: 978-0-615-67581-7
Publication Date May 2014
Pages:104
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Story Merchant

Blurbs




Andrew Furst is an insightful and caring person with a unique and relevant perspective on the spiritual path that would be nothing less than a great addition to the marketplace of ideas.  – Benjamin Riggs – Featured Columnist on Elephant Journal



Western Lights is one of those rare books that uniquely change the traditional discourses in sociological thought – Dr. Vonda Swartz



As a Catholic, unfamiliar with the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism, I appreciated the explanations. Andy made the teachings accessible and understandable. A perfect primer! – Steven Fulton



Western Lights offers a detailed introduction to Buddhist philosophy for people familiar with western religions or who aren’t particularly religious. The author does a good job of laying out the material in a very causal way that is generally easy to understand and provides a high degree of readability – Jason Dumont

 

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