Spiritual teacher and author Ram Dass once wrote, “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely...

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Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

July 17, 2019

ONSTAGE Bay Area writer-performer Dan Hoyle, with his smart and poignant brand of journalistic theater, is at it again with his latest solo show, Border...

Examined Life

Examined Life: On shaky ground

April 16, 2019

EXAMINED LIFE We are, none of us, on steady ground. This is a spiritual truth, but it’s also increasingly become a practical truth, especially in...

Examined Life

When our bodies break down

February 21, 2019

EXAMINED LIFE No one plans for sickness. We plan for busy schedules and vacation time and meeting deadlines. We plan for school and for retirement,...

Examined Life

Life is hard. Say yes to that.

December 7, 2018

EXAMINED LIFE It’s winter and it’s dark out and we’re approaching the holiday season, so … I want to talk about being uncomfortable. I...

Examined Life

Examined Life: Power, patriarchy, and the imperfect guru

August 28, 2018

It’s the end of an era, albeit a very short one. In 2014, Against the Stream (ATS) Buddhist Meditation Society—an organization founded by counter culture...

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Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Examined Life: On shaky ground

When our bodies break down

Life is hard. Say yes to that.

Examined Life: Power, patriarchy, and the imperfect guru

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