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Zen Is Not A Perfume

by Jan Chozen Bays| December 24, 2018

Zen Is Not A Perfume

When Jan Chozen Bays noticed purveyors of commercial products appropriating the word “Zen,” she responded with an open letter published in the Fall 2002 Buddhadharma.

My Storage Unit and Me

by Amy Gutman| September 19, 2011

My Storage Unit and Me

Writer Amy Gutman unpacks our attachment to stuff.

Meet The Three Lords of Materialism

by Carolyn Rose Gimian| September 1, 2005

Meet The Three Lords of Materialism
Carolyn Gimian Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Ego Happiness Kalachakra Tantra Materialism Shambhala Sun - Sept '05Illustration by Michelle Laporte.

The Lords of Form, Speech, and Mind – we think they’ll make us happy and secure, but Carolyn Gimian tells us that everything wrong with the world and our lives is their creation.

Zen Sells: How Advertising has Co-opted Spirituality

by Todd Stein| November 1, 1999

Zen Sells: How Advertising has Co-opted Spirituality

From computers to beauty products, Madison Avenue has discovered that spirituality sells. Todd Stein on the irony of spiritual themes in materialism.

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