Engage! is dedicating its space on the web to highlight one cause: end the imprisonment and torture of infants and children in concentration camps on the Souther Border of the … Continue reading →
ENGAGE! IS THE DHARMA OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT, social, scientific and spiritual. Our mission is to bring about awakening through the exploration of our deep interconnectedness, our interbeing with the phenomenal world. … Continue reading →
Dig this, there’s a youtube video showing Japanese Buddhist priests (don’t know which tradition–Shingon perhaps?) bowing before the Android Kannon. Interestingly, Android Kannon has both feminine and masculine voices, like … Continue reading →
Here’s another point to ponder. There are many kinds of awakenings, many kinds of enlightenment. The experience that the supposed Buddha had (mythical or actual) was a solitary awakening. He … Continue reading →
Journal article Open Access Inclusion and Exclusion in the White Space: An Investigation of the Experiences of People of Color in a Primarily White American Meditation Community Hase, Craig Nicholas; … Continue reading →
I’ve been reading that the word ‘Jati’, which is what is used in the Pali scriptures to mean ‘birth’ is wrongly translated as ‘rebirth’. As Thanissaro explains, there is no … Continue reading →
John Yates, aka Culadasa, author of The Mind Illuminated, has been confronted with charges of sexual misconduct by the Board of Dharma Treasure. The incidents involve adultery with several women, … Continue reading →
Today I led a discussion with Trash Community on ‘Ditching the Raft’ (MN 22), i.e. letting go of Buddhist dharma when we no longer need it, especially when modern science … Continue reading →
Prof. Jem Bendell talks about the social, emotional & existential responses to the climate crisis. Bendell talks about three R’s: Resilience or what we value most that we want to … Continue reading →
Three Lies That are Setting Fire to the World 3. You’ll find safety by becoming a predator. It says: you will be safe if you abuse, hurt, and harm someone … Continue reading →
[photo of earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015] Archaic Buddhism is in ruins, but we can sort through the ruins of the past to find things that we might need to … Continue reading →
A Buddhist approach to fashion might include this conceptual fashion disaster: waste as fashion, modeled by a beautiful and gifted gender-ambiguous Thai fashion designer, Madaew. When the Buddha gave instructions … Continue reading →
