Where to begin? It’s been a magical 24 hours. Last night I nailed it down: I read Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma, Parts III-V on “what the Buddha taught’. I discovered that Ambedkar defines non-self, annata, as “not atman”, i.e. as against the concept of Brahmanic atman or eternal soul. We have an ordinary… Read More The Beat that My Heart Skipped
Posted by: Kenji Liu Posted date: June 05, 2013 In: Dhamma, Economics | comment : 63 http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/revisiting-buddhist-anarchism/ I’ve been revisiting Buddhist anarchism lately, the strain of socially engaged Buddhism that some foundational Buddhist Peace Fellowship movers and shakers were associated with in some form. Like any religion, Buddhism’s tenets and teachings can be interpreted in many ways, including in the anti-state and anti-capitalist direction.… Read More Revisiting Buddhist Anarchism
“The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe have all arisen interdependently. We cannot survive alone. We cannot eat, wear clothes, or breathe alone. The more keenly we are aware of this, the more we will begin to take responsibility for the welfare of other beings.” – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, “Tibetan… Read More 17th Karmapa Gets Engaged!
[No Self, Not Self and 18 Forms of Emptiness, Pt. 2] Since Buddhism has arrived in the west in the age of post-modernism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism, it’s time that we put aside traditionalist dharma born in the Iron Age of the Near East. We need to liberate buddhemes such as no self, emptiness and karma… Read More Non-Self as the Revolutionary Praxis of Anonymous
from Wise Attention Posted on Aug 17, 2012 | 1 comment David Brazier discovered Buddhism in the 1960’s and followed it as a personal spiritual quest and an outlet for his social idealism. The New Buddhism challenges the views of many western Buddhists, proposing a focus on the earliest Buddhist teachings and social activism Brazier practised… Read More David Brazier’s ‘The New Buddhism’
While one sense of self—self-grasping ignorance—is a troublemaker, stable and realistic self-confidence is necessary to accomplish the path. – The Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron, “The Self-Confidence of a Bodhisattva” In the course of doing research on Cotard syndrome, a depersonalization disorder, I discovered an amazing fact: the “self” is neurologically hardwired into the brain.… Read More Self, No-Self: Madness and Mindfulness
On the Secular Buddhist podcast, I listened to a brilliant discussion on engaged Buddhism with Captain Cheri Maple, a dharma teacher in Tich Nhat Hanh’s tradition. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-114-cheri-maples-center/id333093081?i=114178991&mt=2 There are too few people doing engaged Buddhist work at a community-wide and large social scale, but those that do are doing brilliant work that transforms society. http://www.mindfulnessandjustice.org Cheri… Read More Center for Mindfulness and Justice
