DPR: Challenge the Status Quo
Question the status quo. Yeah, right on, dude. Everywhere. All the time. That is my practice as an engaged Buddhist. http://www.dpr.info/videos/questioning-the-status-quo/ And whether or not I am officially a “student … Continue reading
After Buddhism: Stephen Batchelor and Joan Halifax Discuss Post-Buddhist Practice
I’m ready to dig into this podcast series from 2013 featuring Stephen Batchelor and Joan Halifax exploring “After Buddhism”, practice in a post-Buddhist context. To listen to the podcasts, you have … Continue reading
Occupy the Neighbourhood: Practice as a Post-Buddhism Buddhist
by the Editor, Shaun Bartone “Get out of the shrine room. You’re more likely to find enlightenment at a bus stop in Seattle than you are in some fancy shrine … Continue reading
A Native American Koan
By Terry Plotkin http://www.freethehuman.com Essays and books by the author about human liberation. Nearly 40 year ago I went to Washington D.C. for the final leg of The Longest Walk. … Continue reading
Kuan Yin: My Female Buddha
My altar is complete. I brought back my Kuan Yin to Halifax, which I bought about 20 years ago, in downtown Northampton, MA. [This photo does not do her justice; … Continue reading
When the Iron Bird Crashes: Tibetan Buddhism in the West and “Idiot Devotion”
Funny, it always starts this way: Buddhism promoted as a non-religious “science of mind”: “The organization consists of numerous urban ‘study and practice centres’ and a few rural ‘retreat centres’. … Continue reading
When the Iron Bird Crashes: Tibetan Buddhism in the West and “Idiot Devotion” Pt. 2
Shaun, Are those sanghas in Halifax of Ponlop (which it seems you are most familiar with, along with “Shambhala”), Dzigar Kongtrul, maybe Dzongsar Khyentse (and what about Khandro–does she have … Continue reading
CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY & THE PROBLEM WITH BELIEFS by Matthew O’Connell
The following are excerpts from an introduction to the article, “CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY & THE PROBLEM WITH BELIEFS: THE NKT, RIGPA AND SGI” by Matthew O’Connell, on the Post-Traditional Buddhism blog. … Continue reading
The X-Files: Post-Buddhist Inquiry
The X-Files: Dharma study from an outsider perspective. X-Post-Non-Buddhism. This is a thing that is happening in Halifax.
X-Post-Non: Buddhism from an Outsider Perspective
X- POST-NON Buddhism—welcome to the aporetic future of ancoric loss and aporetic dissonance in Buddhist thought. There is an explosion (pun) of great writing by multiple authors on post-traditional Buddhism … Continue reading
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