In one of the very first pieces I wrote for this blog, “Outcastes as Activists: A Tantric Approach to Engaged Buddhism“, I introduced the idea of activism from a tantric perspective. I am now going forward with a more fully developed model, by constructing a Mandala of Sacred Activism. The Mandala is a model of… Read More Mandala of Sacred Activism
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
Greta Thunberg, a fifteen-year-old climate activist from Sweden, spoke to the UN COP24 Climate Conference in Poland in December 2018: “We’ve had thirty years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas. And I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work. Because if it would have, the emissions would have gone down by now—they haven’t. “You only speak of… Read More The Dharma of Greta Thunberg
Kalle Lasn, founder and editor of Adbusters, is a Zen Buddhist. Yes, that’s right, and he still practices his particular form of critical Buddhism. His practice is culture jamming, producing Adbusters, the Magazine of the Mental Environment. I have often thought “wouldn’t it be great if Buddhists used dharma to critique society in a form… Read More The Dharma of Adbusters
This is where I think the future of progressive politics is headed, and it’s where I’m headed. Dual power is rooted in people’s everyday lives, in cities, towns and neighborhoods where they live locally, but it’s fully networked and thus scaled up the global level. That’s what is called ‘dual power.’ We must live and… Read More Buddhist Futures: Symbiosis
Toxic fumes threaten our children. We have to take on the pollution lobby The growth in emissions is creating a ‘diesel generation’ of unhealthy youngsters. And some of the world’s most powerful industries are behind it @GeorgeMonbiot Wed 9 Jan 2019 01.00 ESTLast modified on Wed 9 Jan 2019 05.07 EST ‘An entire generation – 18 years of… Read More The Human Face of Climate Change: Toxic Air Poisons Our Children
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2019/1/4/meet_the_activists_lawmakers_fighting_to Democracy Now Reports: As the government shutdown heads into its 14th day and Trump doubles down on his demands for a border wall, we turn to look at the ongoing crisis unfolding at the U.S. border and the protesters on the ground fighting back. In West Texas, immigrant rights activists are staging daily actions… Read More Prison Camp for 2300 Migrant Kids in Tornillo TX
DARK GLOBALISATION: THE POLITICS OF SPECTACLE Krisztian Simon, Timothy Snyder, originally published in Green European Journal EU The politics of spectacle aims to distract from corruption, wealth inequality, and human rights violations in Putin’s Russia as in Europe and the United States. Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, explains how political developments in… Read More Dark Globalization: Putin and the Politics of Spectacle
Dharma Response: Non-Thought as Resistance, Emptiness as a Weapon. What if ‘not thinking’ became a form of resistance to a digital surveillance system that always provokes you to react to things? What if silence, stillness, not thinking, not reacting, zoning on emptiness, was a way to resist being conditioned by the Networked Empire into becoming… Read More Buddhist Futures: Dark Futurology
