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 →
Yazz Ahmed is a British-Bahraini trumpet player and composer. Through her music, she seeks to blur the lines between jazz, Arabic folk and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds … Continue reading →
Yama Buddha WAS a brilliant Nepalese rapper, but sad to say, he died in 2017 at age 29. Cause of death: suicide, death by hanging. His rap was amazingly sensitive … Continue reading →
Meditation for Climate and Immigration, September 29, 2019 On behalf of Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Kendall was asked to lead a meditation at the Climate Strike for Immigration Justice in … Continue reading →
I am relaunching the Dharma Nerds blog as Dharmaecology, although the URL is the same. for now. You might consider Dharmaecology as Ditching the Raft #5. So here goes: What is Dharmaecology? … Continue reading →
I’ve discovered this fantastic collection of rare and unknown jazz gems compiled by Jazzman Records UK called ‘Spiritual Jazz.’ There are nine volumes of Spiritual Jazz compilations, and I vow … Continue reading →
Previous posts on Ditching the Raft talked about the doctrine or content of Buddhism and what it offers: a unified theory of self and world that also provides an ethical … Continue reading →
Climate Change is not an event. Although it’s sign-posted by geologic history, and human history, it doesn’t have a fixed start-and-end-date. Although it’s measured by C02 increase over the pre-industrial … Continue reading →
Both enlightenment and endarkenment need each other, each completes the other, and without each other, awakening is not complete. —Roshi Joan Sutherland. I’m pursuing Joan Sutherland’s path of endarkenment, through … Continue reading →
DANCE stands for Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement. It was coined by a group of Buddhists active in the climate justice movement in the UK, led by Thanissara. But … 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 →
