brooklyn

DUMBO’s (or is it Vinegar Hill’s) Tantric Buddhist Center

It’s like, when you tune your antennae in on something specific you start to see things you might have previously missed. Not that it’s really possible to miss the bright yellow Dorje Ling Buddhist Temple in DUMBO/Vinegar Hill, but you’d be surprised at what slips by unseen. Occupying what used […]

NYC Yoga Peeps Get Post-Apocalyptic

Ben Dickinson’s film “First Winter” is currently being shot on location at Heartland, a blooming yoga community in upstate NY. The official synop: In December 2012, a massive collapse of infrastructure leaves a group of Brooklyn yogis snowed-in at a country farmhouse without electricity, cell phone reception, or running water. […]

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna (in Times Square)

There’s so much a person could talk about when it comes to the Hare Krishna movement, ISKCON, and Vaishnavism in general, however, one things stands out: Hare Krishnas love you loving Krishna loving you loving Love. It’s not every day a person comes across a religious or spiritual tradition that […]

SOUL FOOD, WANDERING, & RA UN NEFER

Always an uplifting experience, today I went for a walk down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. My main purpose was to walk with a slight abandon while hoping to stumble upon either the Ausar Auset Society founded by my secret intellectual-man-crush, Ra Un Nefer, author of the very awesome Metu Neter […]