[Editor: The following article on the investigation into Noah Levine’s alleged sexual misconduct, written by Anna Merlan, was published in Jezebel on Tuesday August 12, 2018. We have all been waiting for the results of the ATS internal investigation into Noah Levine’s alleged sexual misconduct and the report on the investigation from the LAPD. This… Read More Jezebel Reports Noah Levine Investigation Ongoing

Buddhist, Yoga, Dharma friends: the Mastodon Instance Dharma Realm is ready! Invite: https://ganesha.masto.host/invite/g6LzfAjs Dharma Realm is hosted at ganesha.masto.host Dharma Realm is a Mastodon Instance for Buddhism, Dharma, Yoga, Advaita, and related spiritualities (Secular Buddhism, Naturalism, Tao, etc).I’m looking for a hosting partner to help moderate the site. If you’re interested in working on this project, please… Read More The Dharma Realm is Ready

So this is a promotional email from Andrew Yang’s Campaign for President, but I read it and I actually learned something. Which is why I support his campaign, not because I think he’s going to win (or ought to win) but because he is raising fundamental issues about our economy, our values and our collective… Read More Andrew Yang’s New Capitalism

Or, Why American Collapse Was an Inevitable Choice umair haqueJul 31 originally published at Medium/ Eudamonia&Co. These days, as I watch America collapse, I’m struck by mixed feelings. On the one hand, I feel a kind of remorse — how easily this strange, funny, gruesome downfall into authoritarianism, fascism, and kleptocracy could have been prevented. But on… Read More Umair Haque: The Contradictions Behind American Collapse

Show-On-G, produced by a Japanese Buddhist priest cum DJ, Gyosen Asakura, continues to blow my mind with it’s total commitment to electronica as a medium for Buddhist chant and transcendent audio/visual experience. I believe this piece is the Heart Sutra. Check out more at the Show-On-G website. Music is available at the Japanese iTunes site,… Read More Buddhist Futures: Show-On-G II

There is no political solution…to our troubled evolution. (Gordon Sumner) Is our consciousness the result of evolution? Or is our evolution the result of consciousness? To what extent do we as a species consciously participate in our own evolution? We humans are born not even half-developed as mammals. Humans have the longest period of development… Read More Evolution and Consciousness

Keeping the Immigration and Family Detention/Separation issues front and center; Please support BPF’s Migrant Justice campaign. Reunite Immigrant Families: 5 Actions, 5 Buddhist Remembrances Katie Loncke So goes the fourth of Five Remembrances in Buddhist teachings, in a versionfrom Vietnamese Zen leader Thich Nhat Hanh. (Also found in the Upajjhatthana Sutta, Subjects for Contemplation, in… Read More BPF’s Migrant Justice Campaign