Engage! is dedicating it’s space on the web to highlight one cause, and this time it’s Detention Watch Network’s campaign to end family detention, to end the rape and abuse of women and children in immigrant detention centers, to demand justice for the “disappearance” of 1500 children under DHS custody…this brutality and injustice is an… Read More Engage w/Detention Watch Network
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. Engage! is looking for inspired activists to offer posts, articles, poetry, photos, videos, drawings, animations, music, song, and spoken word to the magazine. Send us your… Read More Get Engaged! Submit Your Beautiful Noise
This reflection by Charles Eisenstein is based on his book of sacred activism, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. Our civilization is entering a profound transition. For simplicity, I call it a transition from the story of Separation to the story of Interbeing. As this shift gathers momentum, the old answers to… Read More From Separation to Interbeing
Recent scandals in Buddhist sanghas have revolved around the patriarchal abuse by male teachers and gurus of their students and community members, women especially, but men as well. Perhaps what is needed is a breakdown of patriarchal models of masculinity and the evolution of new models of masculinity. Jiro Taylor’s interview with Charles Eisenstein begins with… Read More Masculinity: A New Story
FEBRUARY 17, 2019 BY JUSTIN WHITAKER A thirty-five page letter was issued yesterday by six of the closest attendants of Mipham Mukpo (Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche) detailing their experiences of verbal, physical and sexual abuse in vivid detail. Recollections include female students being “pushed to rationalize [sex] as a generous offering to their revered teacher”, stories… Read More Further abuse accusations against Sakyong Mipham
[Editor: this is another one of those posts that I started first on Dharma Nerds, but wondered whether it should really be on Engage!. So it goes on both blogs.] What I found stifling about Western Buddhist practice is the obsessive focus on meditation as the paramount practice. What is completely lacking in modern Buddhist… Read More Buddhism as Complete Culture
The final report from Wickwire Holm law firm on the investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the Sakyong Mipham of Shambhala has been released to the public. https://shambhala.org/index.php?file=2019/02/2-3-19-WH-Report-Final-Package.pdf Tricycle has provided what seems to be a typical summary of the report. https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/shambhala-investigation/ Selection from Final Statement from Andrea Winn of Buddhist Project Sunshine: It… Read More Shambhala Sex Misconduct Report
http://simianuprising.com/2018/11/29/refuge-recovery-an-oral-history-of-the-book-with-gary-sanders/ FWIW I really wanted to put more details out there about the collaboration on the book so I did a long interview with Gary Sanders, one of the original RR organizers, about the early days and how the book was written. It’s 80 mins and there’s also a transcription on my blog. Hopefully it’s… Read More An Oral History of Refuge Recovery
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about… Read More The Human Face of Climate Change: Pat McCabe and Indigenous Knowledge
