The Translucent View

Share Neal Rogin has been involved in countless movie scripts, books and social and political action campaigns for many decades. He wrote the script for the “Awaken the Dreamer” movie for the Pachamama Alliance, and recently worked on the movie “Thrive”. So this week, as a special holiday celebration, here is the very best of [...]

Share Andrew Niccol previously wrote The Truman Show and Terminal, and so is no newcomer to larger-than-life allegory in cinema. His latest film, In Time, with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried is not just a very clever film about time, it’s also a film for which the release date is itself is a miracle in [...]

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Share When I first learned meditation back in 1971, it was motivated more by despair than devotion to any ideal.  I was born into an unusually unhappy family, and by the time I reached my teen years it was obvious that I had to do something different to avoid suicide or going crazy — both [...]

Share You wake up early to the sound of birdsong and the waves on the shore.  You stretch slowly, and slip on your sandals and the thinnest beach wrap you can imagine.  You step outside into another dream-day.  Perfect temperature, plump lemons on the tree outside your window, vast blue ocean.  Just in time for [...]

Share I have been accused, by those who shall remain nameless, of using too many words when I blog. OK. So here it is, on this Saturday night, February 19th 2011. My latest offering to you is from Ezra Pound, Who said it all with these words: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; [...]

Share More than forty years ago, on Our World,  the first live global television link, the Beatles performed All you Need is Love, to an audience of 400 million people in 26 countries. The BBC wanted a song with a simple message that could be understood by all nationalities.   It went on to become the [...]

Share Share My friend Luis Diaz has written a fantastic book called Memory in the Cells. He has kindly asked me to write the foreword, and here it is. I will be interviewing him on Thursday, September 23rd at 6pm PST. To begin, I must confess that the way I am writing this foreword to [...]

Share I am amazed and inspired by everything I have heard from this band.  Dhani Harrison is George’s son. Their first album comes out Nov 5th Get ready!

Share This is a practice from my book Leap Before You Look. Lie down on your backUnder a cloudless sky. Open yourself to the nature of infinity. Let yourself move out infinitely in any direction And be soberly present with the unavoidable fact That as far as you travel, You are still only halfway there. [...]