Sean Feit Oakes

Tag: mindfulness

  • The gratification, the danger, and the escape

    A classical teaching on why it’s so hard to let go, but why we must, if we want to find freedom from suffering. Talk given at Insight Meditation Satsang, Yoga Tree Telegraph.

  • Mindfulness means intimacy

    Talk: Mindfulness as intimacy with ourselves, with the world through our senses, in relationship with each moment. Given at Vajrapani yoga and meditation retreat with Pete Guinosso. (10.2.15)

  • Saffron-washing part 2: Response to Thich Nhat Hanh

    Several folks have posted this Thich Nhat Hanh (TNH) interview to me, after my recent dip into the Google-Mindfulness-Buddhism-Capitalism debate following the Wisdom 2.0 protest. There’s a good debate about it on Be Scofield’s Facebook wall, and a smaller one on mine after this post, and I don’t need to repeat many of the elements…

  • Mindfulness the Google Way: well-intentioned saffron-washing?

    For the last few years there’s been a growing uproar in San Francisco rooted in dismay and anger over ballooning rents, historically high eviction rates, and other markers of the intense gentrification that has been happening for 15 years or so — if I choose the tech boom of the 90s as a convenient recent…

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