The Tattooed Buddha strives to be a platform for the spiritual misfits and contemplative rebels. We aim to promote peace and educate through writing, workshops and community. We offer a dialogue that is aware and awake to the reality of our present day, tackling issues of community, environment and compassionate living.

Just an Ordinary Jane Looking for a Little Zen, The Yoga Slut

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A Mindful Berean

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The Bodhisattva of Power Suits

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Loving Thoughts From Nowhere

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Living the Dharma: Stories of Everyday Life

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The Renegade Buddhist

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Buddha School Dropout

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One Deep Breath of Dharma

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What’s Gained in Loss

Loss seldom happens all at once. It’s a movement, an emptying that takes something away bit by bit until there’s nothing left to take apart but the memory. Like a cup made of ice melting into itself. The whole world, the entire cosmos… statues of melting ice. 

A Lawyer and a Tattooed Buddha Hang Out on a Blog

Lots of people now ask me how I make teaching mindfulness, writing, and practicing law, fit. Perhaps it is because of my copious life experience feeling like I don’t fit in, but I am comfortable with this question. In fact, it is one of my favorites.

The American Buddhist

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Cultivating Peace Under Lock and Key

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  • Beginner Meditation
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Tonglen for LA

If we don’t look the homeless man in the eyes we don’t have to face his humanity. It’s so much easier to cross the street, to bury ourselves in some other mind numbing distraction from the realities that others are facing. To turn away. There is a Buddhist practice called Tonglen, which is the exact opposite of turning away.

A Good Resolution : Attention First

If they have convinced us that enlightenment (however it is conceived) is something we have to strive for, with a lot of painful sitting and obeisance to a "master," let me give us the good news. They are completely wrong. Maybe, at last, this is a message we can all accept.

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Podcast

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  • The Faces of Meditation