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Buddhism

To know the future

The future isn’t ours to know. But one thing is for sure, we’ll never know what the future holds until we know what the present holds. What I mean is this: If we don’t attend to the present moment, we

Micah Lapidus March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Buddhism Read more

Simple Reminders

Today is a new day. It has never existed before nor will it ever exist again. Each moment is an opportunity to be present physically as well as spiritually. Today will be full of experiences whose meanings will be different

Micah Lapidus January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Buddhism, Daily Life, Life Lessons, Lists Read more

Beginner’s Mind Torah

Yesterday I had to transfer a Torah scroll from The Davis Academy Lower School campus to The Davis Academy Middle School campus. The scroll was being stored in an Ark that resides in a room adjacent to our Lower School

Micah Lapidus October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Buddhism, Judaism, Spirituality, Torah Read more

Visits to Drepung Loseling Monastery

On the past two consecutive Thursday evenings I’ve visited the Drepung Loseling Monastery here in Atlanta. The monastery, devoted to the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, has been on my radar for many years. Finally curiosity got the better of me

Micah Lapidus June 22, 2018 Buddhism Read more

One-Pointedness

After the morning rain I took a short walk. Along the way I noticed the beads of water hanging on the tips and low points of the small branches of the trees that haven’t yet bloomed with the coming of

Micah Lapidus March 19, 2018 Buddhism, Daily Life, Nature Read more

With Thanks to Jack Kornfield

Over the last two years I’ve listened to approximately 50-60 hours of Jack Kornfield’s podcast, Heart Wisdom Hour. Alongside The Grateful Dead, this podcast holds the place for the most oft heard soundtrack in my earbuds. It’s rare for me

Micah Lapidus December 21, 2017 Buddhism, Lists, Spirituality Read more

Pause

  Between breathing in and breathing out. Between this sentence and the next. Between thought and expression. Between hearing and listening. Between doing and doing. Between being and being. Between now and now. Between is and was. Between is and

Micah Lapidus November 6, 2017 Buddhism, Daily Life, Poetry, Prayer Read more

An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness

An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness   I am connected   to this computer   to this couch   to the sounds of the white noise machines in my kids’ rooms being carried through the speaker of our video monitor  

Micah Lapidus October 2, 2017October 3, 2017 Buddhism, People, Poetry, Relationships Read more

Predictions for 5778

  Here are some predictions for 5778. I’m pretty confident they’ll come to pass. 5778 will be a year of… radical love and radical hatred profound peace and profound violence deep connection and deep alienation wisdom and folly clarity and

Micah Lapidus September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 Buddhism, Daily Life, Holidays, Lists Read more

Understand

Understand that behind you is You that is Me that is Us that is the Empty  

Micah Lapidus August 29, 2017 Buddhism, Elul, Poetry Read more
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