http://www.mindfulpurpose.com Make a difference! Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:20:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/medicine-for-the-world http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/medicine-for-the-world#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:03:46 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=1108 This recent post from Andrew Olendzki in Tricycle Magazine takes an interesting slant on a classic Buddhist story. It’s too easy to think the world’s problems are too big for any one of us to address. Or that massive humanitarian crises – like the recent floods in Pakistan – are too far removed from us to do anything about. But the world we inhabit is the product of our collective actions, and it’s up to us to take responsibility. Learning to care of each other is at the core of what practice as a Buddhist is about. I’m taking this lesson seriously. I hope you will consider doing so as well.]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/medicine-for-the-world/feed 0 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:37:19 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=971 This is a great 10-minute video that debunks the traditional notion that money incents us to work harder and better. When the task at hand calls for creativity and conceptual thinking, offers of money actually make us do WORSE! Fascinating stuff. And lots of implications for how we run organizations and create incentives. ]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/feed 0 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/four-years-go http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/four-years-go#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 16:33:28 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=944 I recently join up with a group of people who want to change the world. Really! Four Years. Go. is just one part of this campaign. It's a rallying call asking us all to wake up to the enormous harm we are doing to Earth and ourselves. Wake Up to the profound opportunity we have now to create a future to match our deepest longing and greatest dreams. And become change agents in redirecting humanity’s current path from self-destruction to sustainability.]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/four-years-go/feed 1 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/one-person-doing-one-good-thing http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/one-person-doing-one-good-thing#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:23:44 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=897 Last weekend I heard an inspiring story on National Public Radio. It featured Mark Horvath, a man who has used his unique position as a former Hollywood insider, drug addict, and homeless person, to focus attention on the plight of the homeless. Here’s an example of one man who has taken his own life experiences – the good and the bad – and turned it around into something for the good of others. He’s just one person, doing one good thing. And what an effect he’s having. Horvath travels around the country with a video camera and interviews homeless people in exchange for a pair of clean white socks from his backpack. His excellent website www.invisiblepeople.tv is a collection of his work. ]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/one-person-doing-one-good-thing/feed 0 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/facing-samsara-making-a-difference http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/facing-samsara-making-a-difference#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:08:04 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=806 Climate change. The economic downturn. Terrorism. And now there’s Haiti. A client and I were conversing recently about the mess our world is in. She was feeling overwhelmed. How do we, as individuals, respond in the face of such huge problems? I won’t be so presumptuous as to claim to know the answers. But I thought you might be interested in hearing what she and I discussed. ]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/facing-samsara-making-a-difference/feed 0 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/buddha-and-social-change http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/buddha-and-social-change#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:10:04 +0000 sunada http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/?p=462 How might the Buddha respond to questions of social change? How do we bring about large-scale happiness to entire societies? I recently heard this thought-provoking interview on National Public Radio's show Speaking of Faith, called "The Buddha in the World." It's an interview with Pankaj Mishra, a journalist and author of the book The End of Suffering: The Buddha in the World.]]> http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/buddha-and-social-change/feed 3