A not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.

The amazing Buddhist Geeks have an interview with Karma Kagyu teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

He starts off by telling us about how he got into formal Buddhist practice, at the tender age of 9. He also shares some of his initial challenges with anxiety, and how he was able to work with it on his first 3-year retreat.

Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal and, most recently, The Evolution of God, wrote about his experiments with meditation in a New York Times blog post that was much discussed in the blogosphere. We was just about to go on a meditation retreat at the Insight Meditation Society. I hope it was a good review , since another article Wright published in the NYT shortly afterwards was universally panned.

Do check out Tricycle Magazine’s “The Meditator’s Toolbox: Tricycle’s 21 Tips to Power Your Practice,” which was mentioned in this post.

~C4Chaos has an enthusiastic post titled Open Practice: Why Shinzen Young’s Home Practice Program is Awesome. It describes the pros and cons of Young’s phone-based mini-retreats. Sounds like a great idea.

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