Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Don't Be So Humble; You're Not That Great ." In short, Judaism t...

There is a buddhist philosophy that life is all about loss and suffering.  The Budha says: Life is suffering. Why?  Because life is ...

Three cheers for one of the worst elections ever. American politics sinking to new lows. This poster yesterday plastered all over Wa...

I remember hearing the phrase (not sure from where), "everything and the opposite." I think it refers to how within each thing...

There is something very smart about Buddhist-thinking.  (And frankly IMHO, can conceptually mesh very well with Judaism.) Buddhists no...

Whether though endless work, family activities, exercise, computer time, or whatever, people have a hard time just stopping to think.  A...

I was having an really interesting conversation with a friend--okay, and it got a little deep.  He said something fascinating to me--whi...

Ever realize that no matter how hard you strive for happiness, it almost always seems just as elusive.  There are many explanations for ...

So I took this picture of this baby frog while hiking.  This was the first one we saw--on the foliage it completely blended in, but on t...

So I made some new "friends" on the train home this evening. These two Tibetan Buddhist Monks. I asked about their amazing ...

I found an article on the consolation of death "buried" in my papers from a couple of months ago--and I'm glad I did.  ...

One of the Buddhist teachings is that there are 3 poisons in this world: greed, anger, and ignorance .  But that by turning these po...

I watched a terrific PBS Emmy-nominated documentary called The Buddha (2010). The show described the life of Prince Siddhartha from ...

I watched a Sunday movie called Shaolin, a martial arts film from Hong Kong (2011).  What I really enjoyed about this movie aside from ac...