This year Buddhist Geeks has entered a new phase and part of this is the integration of both masculine and feminine perspectives. We are now intentionally bringing attention towards a feminine symbol so that in the realm of duality we can see more of our faces in the digital world of emerging Buddhism. Bringing a [...]
One aim of Buddhist Geeks is to continue innovating on some of the brilliant developments of the past. While we are fortunate enough, in this day and age, to have many options and retreat centers for contemplative practice–there seems to be a growing discontent with the gap between being on retreat and off retreat. As [...]
It’s a new day here at Buddhist Geeks. Over the past three months we’ve been hard at work on a newly designed BuddhistGeeks.com. We’ve teamed up with PowerUp Productions to do a complete re-design and build of the site. The old site has served us really well, and has been a great portal for folks [...]
My partner Emily and I just got back for the 4th annual Wisdom 2.0 Conference held in San Francisco, California. The stated purpose of the conference is to explore Wisdom in the Digital Age. Strangely, I’ve had tickets to all four of the Wisdom 2.0 conferences, but this was the first year I’ve been able [...]
What happens when you bring together a long-time meditation teacher interested in advanced mathematics and science with a Harvard neuroscientist who is an avid meditator? You get the Harvard Brain Study on Shinzen Young Meditators. Together, Shinzen Young and Dave Vago have teamed-up to investigate what happens in the brain when you apply Shinzen Young’s [...]
This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Thanks to the global spread of startup culture, you’re just as likely to run into an over-caffeinated entrepreneur or over-pitched investor in London’s E1 or Edinburgh EH1 as you are in the zip codes of San Francisco and the Bay. Whether it’s the [...]
Bringing awareness to how we use social media is probably more difficult, in many ways, than with our real-time relationships. For one thing we’ve got a lot less practice with it–social media really only started bursting onto the scene in the last 10 years. For another, much of social media is designed, and used in [...]
The Buddhist Geeks Conference is one of the only events on the planet where you can participate at the intersection of Buddhism, technology, and emerging global culture. We like to think of it as the place “Where Dharma and Technology Meet.” While planning the first Conference, which took place in Los Angeles in July 2011, [...]
“The role of the teacher is to plant the teacher in the student.” – Thich Naht Hahn There are all types of teachers. Academic teachers, teachers of the arts, dance teachers, middle school teachers, swim teachers, and of course, the one that’s stumped me the most over the years…spiritual teachers. What does it mean to [...]
For the last few months we’ve been working hard on a new version of Buddhist Geeks. This new version will start off with a re-design of the BuddhistGeeks.com site, to be launched in early spring, 2013. It will also include several other dimensions that will come shortly thereafter. We want to share some details on [...]
