Article: Mind the Grid, by Robert Wright

Robert Wright gets off the grid and into mindfulness:

in addition to unplugging from the wired world, I plugged into a regimen that isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I was at a silent meditation retreat. My fellow yogis and I did about five hours of sitting meditation each day and five hours of walking meditation. Then each night we listened to a talk about the context of all this: the Buddhist worldview.

So I’ve failed to control my variables. Who knows how much of my newfound calm is due to escaping modern technology and how much is due to immersing myself in an ancient discipline?

Zen in the news: Zen moves couple to open home, minds

Newspaper article about a San Diego zendo. I'm not sure what makes this "news", but there it is:

"As many as 20 pairs of shoes are piled by the front door. Robes sway gently as the group, without a word, walks single file around the dining room table, through the kitchen and into the living room, repeating the cycle.

They are practitioners with Three Treasures Zen Community, and to them, each measured step through Barry and Nicolee McMahon's Rancho Penasquitos home carries them further along the path to enlightenment, or as it is described in Zen Buddhism, the state in which a person is aware of his or her true nature."