Nov 23, 2020 | Alternative Lifestyle, Eastern Philosophy
If there’s anything I enjoy as much as bamboo, it’s probably peace of mind. But in the year 2020, that’s something awfully hard to come by. Between the germs, the lockdowns, the elections and the conspiracies, it seems like peace and tranquility have...
Apr 17, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Green Living
We are now more than four weeks into global quarantine. And we are bending the curve like Uri Keller bends a spoon. With great fanfare, that is. In this unimaginable scenario, we salute the heroes and mourn the victims. But in small town America, most of us are just...
Apr 6, 2020 | Bambu Batu, Eastern Philosophy
Even as we spend these days and weeks alone and at a distance, the world, in many ways, has never been closer. For the first time in human history, our entire planet faces a common threat, and more importantly, we are working together as a species to address and...
Mar 28, 2017 | Alternative Lifestyle, Eastern Philosophy, Health & Nutrition, Natural Healing
Meditation has always been a wonderful way to calm, center, and focus the mind and spirit. Evidence out of UCLA suggests that this kind of quiet, directed introspection could also strengthen the connections between neurons and increase the amount of folding in the...
Jul 15, 2010 | Bambu Batu, Eastern Philosophy
As we’ve just gotten in a beautiful new batch of mythic eastern statuary, this seems like an apt moment to review the line-up of Far Eastern iconography. The mighty Buddha is known to take many shapes and forms, sometimes even the absence of form. For those not...
