A year before my mother died of cancer, we went to the Grand Canyon together. Her brother, my uncle Gus, lived in Mesa, Arizona, and he wanted to fulfill one of my mother’s last wishes, to see the Grand Canyon. I got to go with her, and it was one of the most memorable experiences… Read More Get out of the Car: Awakening At The Grand Canyon
April 08, 2015 In the Spirit of Service [Editor; I’m highlighting Sharon Salzburg’s statement below because engagement is not limited to social justice or service work. We also engage in our relationships to each other, full engagement means being fully open to each other in feeling and conversation, sharing honestly from our hearts, being genuine with each other.]… Read More Engaged in Service and Relationship
STOP EATING BEEF: http://www.cowspiracy.com Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely… Read More STOP EATING BEEF:
Buddhist teachings on emptiness challenge us to think about broad-based social movements as an unfolding process, as that which has deep roots in history, and which has no certainty of outcomes, no guarantee of arriving at a projected utopian future. We can understand social movements as open-ended processes of continuous change and evolution, ennobling us to confront every new era as a challenge to work out… Read More The One Demand: Is Occupy the First Buddhist Mass Movement?
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar undertook a ten year study of Buddhism, primarily of the Pali cannon, but also the Mahayana texts, which formed the basis of his book, The Buddha and his Dhamma. He also undertook, like the Dalai Lama, a study of Marxism, culminating in his written speech, “Buddha or Karl Marx.”, excerpted below. Like… Read More Buddha & Marx Pt. 2: Dr. Ambedkar’s Marxism
The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism | Adbusters by Stuart Smithers https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/102/spiritual-crisis-of-capitalism.html also published in Tricycle.com Audio version read by Sloan Garrett – Right-click to download When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist leanings last summer in Minneapolis, the only surprise was how surprising it was. The blogosphere was once again stirred up by this non-revelation. Tsering Namgyal,… Read More Buddha and Marx Pt. 1: The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism
The next system will be ecologically sustainable, powered by renewable energy, based on cooperative enterprise, sharing, interconnectedness, local to global. In the future, no one will have a “job”. The majority of people will be involved in organic food and fibre production on cooperative farms. People will work in self-organized cooperative teams whose goal is to… Read More The Next System
