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I'll be doing a presentation on Buddhism and Psychotherapy for the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's annual weekend convention May 3rd.

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The marvelous cast of Offenbach's satiric opera "Orphée aux Enfers" at UConn this weekend. Our granddaugher Emily (first row, second from right) sang the trowser role of Orphée. What fun! This is an opera that definitely ought to be done more often!

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In my new Mindfulness Research Monthly Highlights column: 1) Adding mindfulness to buprenorphine reduced opioid cravings but not abstinence, and 2) a mindfulness app improved anxiety, depression, fear, fatigue, and quality of life in patients in treatment for metastatic kidney cancer. #mindfulness

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My conversation about enlightenment with Polly Young-Eisendrath and Michael Berger on their "Waking Up is Not Enough: Flourishing in the Human Space" podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5HHn...

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Maggie Haberman in the NY Times: "Officials with the Education Department told employees in the civil rights office on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team was scrutinizing the department’s operations." Come on, Maggie—its not a "cost cutting team"—its a McCarthyesque MAGA enforcement team.

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Hurrah for Latitia James! More of this please! Are you listening State AGs?

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I swear that until my dying breath, I will remember the names of the cowards and the collaborators, and I will remember the names of the righteous heroes who resist. This is the moment you either show the world your integrity or you earn disgrace and dishonor. Make your choice.

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Oppose, Oppose, Oppose — and Do It Loudly open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich" lasted twelve years. This too shall pass. The only question is how much suffering we shall have to witness and endure until then. Until then, keep the faith, stay strong, support the vulnerable.

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Join me, Mike Slott, Karsten Struhl, and Craig Murphy as we discuss Mike's new book, Mindful Solidarity. Mike, Karsten, and Craig are Secular Buddhists and socialists—me, I'm the Zen Niebuhrian liberal dissent. January 30th 7:00 PM EST us02web.zoom.us/j/5052592148 #secularbuddhism #engagedbuddhism

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My Book Review of Mike Slott's "Mindful Solidarity" is now available on substack open.substack.com/pub/sethzuih...

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My Book Review of Mike Slott's "Mindful Solidarity" for The Existential Buddhist #secularbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #Marxism www.existentialbuddhist.com/2025/01/revi...

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www.cjr.org/analysis/pau... my gosh THAT sounds familiar

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My daughter, Jessica Segall, just completed a term as visiting artist-in-residence at SUNY-Purchase. If you ever wondered what it's like to sit and meditate on a beehive, you will like this sculpture she built while there. She now moves on to a visiting artist residency at CalTech.

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In my Highlights column for the Mindfulness Research Monthly: 1) Mindfulness buffers the effects of acute stress on mindfulness and emotional regulation in troubled teenagers, and 2) Mindfulness reduces pain and depression and improves interoceptive awareness in chronic pain patients. #mindfulness

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We are on the verge of a new Age of Impunity—of unparallelled political-economic corruption in which the powerful may do as they please. Moral rot eventually seeps down, corrupting the whole of social life. Stay vigilant. Try to be humane, truthful, and courageous. Let's make America decent again.

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My first attempt to publish one of my recent Existential Buddhist blog posts on Substack... Forgive me, I know not what I'm doing.

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In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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In my new Mindfulness Research Monthly column: 1) Differential effects of MBSR with and without focus on the breath 2) Long-term meditators report greater introceptive awareness than non-meditators but produce more false positives when detecting threshold-level tactile stimuli. #mindfulness

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Which oligarch kissing up to Trump today will be the first to accidentally fall out a window tomorrow?

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Book Giveaway for Christmas Christmas is coming early this year.😀 Will select two winners of a free signed copy of my book, "The Character Gap." Must repost and follow (if needed) to enter. Please share even if you have a copy! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

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From the pen of Joan Tollifson, who always has something worthwhile to say.

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My new essay on developing a naturalistic, pragmatic, eudaimonic, and cosmopolitan approach to Buddhist practice. #Buddhism

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My history of and commentary on the relationship between Buddhism and Western Psychology from William James through Jung and Fromm and up to contemporary positive psychology, affective neuroscience, mindfulness, and psychedelic research. www.saet.ac.uk/Buddhism/Bud...

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My grandson Ben has a new song on Spotify. If you like Nirvana you just might like it. open.spotify.com/track/6n4s2t....

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In Blue Cliff Record Case 68, Yunmen quotes Zhaozhou saying "A good thing isn't as good as nothing." I have been sitting with this all week, letting it slowly sink in. Lovely and mysterious!

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My article "In Search of 'True' Buddhism" in the latest issue of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review tricycle.org/magazine/set...

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