Monthly Archives: August 2011

In the last weeks of my grand P90X experience, I have utterly and completely drunk the Kool-Aid. I’m buying stronger bands for my pull-ups, I’m scarfing up protein bars, I’m amping up the weight on my dumbbells. Perhaps it’s the realization that I’m nearing the end of the program and I still don’t look like […]

Lately I’ve been grappling with the inherent dissonance between this 90-day, “transform your body, be in the best shape of your life!”exercise regimen, and the Buddhist teachings I’ve been delving into. On the one hand, the transformation of one’s body fits in perfectly with Zen precepts: we are every day, every moment, a new being; […]