Random Linkage: Canadian Engaged Buddhists, the Fox & the Indie Spiritualist and We Need Each Other

If you like me are feeling the tickle of allergies on you eyelids and welled deep in your nasal cavities, then you know that you’d love to invest in a start up company that works to shoot laser beams out of cell phones to irradiate the pesky allergy spores.

Uh. Maybe it’s just me then. Wishful thinking.

At least these things are soothing me:

• Thanks to the work that I’m doing on THE BOOK (all caps out of excitement), I’m starting to find and connect with some remarkable people who are all so ready and willing to help. It’s funny when you think of how small the Canadian Buddhist community is, yet how there are still some untapped bits of knowledge yet to be discovered. Shamefully, I’m only now finding out about the Canadian Engaged Buddhism Association so be sure to check them out and all of the wonderful work that they are doing.
• Chris Grosso aka The Indie Spiritualist was interviewed recently on Fox 61 in Connecticut about how he came to be interested in spirituality and the path he’s found himself on.

• Josh Korda from DharmaPunx NYC has written a touching piece that you should check out titled ‘Why We Need Each Other’.

Reestablishing secure connections is the point of relational mindfulness: when we sit with each other and pay deep attention to the underlying emotions being conveyed, feeling them internally, expressing them back, we provide the stability we spend our lives searching for, creating a therapeutic bond more powerful than any drug or worldly success story can possibly provide.