The Punk Dharma at Khyber Sound Klub

Here’s a recording of my last session (6-17-15) with the Khyber Sound Klub, an improvisation group in Halifax. We’re a sound improv group that works with the improvisation teachings of Jerry Granelli, jazz drummer and teacher of direct experience art practice. I’m on the Fender Jagmaster, fucking with my TC Electronics flanger, which produced the most hellacious sounds. I love… Read More The Punk Dharma at Khyber Sound Klub

Guardian UK: Summary of the Papal Encyclical on the Environment “Laudato Si”

Pope Francis: The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth An extract from Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality  ‘The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. At the global level, it is a complex system linked to many of… Read More Guardian UK: Summary of the Papal Encyclical on the Environment “Laudato Si”

Privilege, Knowledge, Power in White Convert Buddhism

by Scott W. Menasco We have a new contributor to Engage!. Scott W. Menasco is a PhD Student studying Buddhism in the United States, a counselor, and a practitioner of a tradition influenced by the Perfect Wisdom Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. In the United States, the overwhelming amount of non-heritage Buddhist practitioners are white and… Read More Privilege, Knowledge, Power in White Convert Buddhism

Seeing Through: Emptiness and Networks of Power

Today I begin a new series on the use of the Buddhist concept of emptiness to challenge and dismantle social systems of power and oppression. I translate the term shunyata or emptiness into a description of the process of seeing through social institutions that create powerful controls on our minds, behaviours and relationships. As engaged Buddhists,… Read More Seeing Through: Emptiness and Networks of Power