Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson by Cristina Moon I’m sitting in my home in Oakland, California, meditating as police helicopters fly overhead. I am not at the protests demanding justice for Mike Brown, even though I live only a few minutes from where they are taking place. I am sitting because I want badly to… Read More Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson
Spoken word, written and recorded by Laura Burke.
As a trans-queer Buddhist, I find that I must walk the path of the outcaste, the radical faerie, the siddha. I practice on the fringes of sangha, always on the margins, never at the core. Siddha practice in liminal, contested and sometimes dangerous spaces with fellow outcastes. The ancient Buddhist siddhas were often monastics who revolted against… Read More A Lone Buddhist Manifesto
Open Culture sent me a nice little package today of videos from the Zen Beatnik 50s and the Warhol Pop 60s. The first set portrays the Zen consciousness of Alan Watts in four animation videos. Tagged on to that is a collection of videos of another favourite icon of mine: Nico, the famous-for-15-minutes German model from Andy Warhol’s… Read More Alan Watts & Nico
Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government: Tim Harper Canada and its politics, the former Ontario NDP leader says, are in free fall. MIKE CASSESE / AFP/GETTY IMAGES In his Friday speech, Stephen Lewis took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office. By: Tim Harper National Affairs, Published on Sun Nov 23 2014 At… Read More Stephen Lewis: Harper’s Nixonian Regime
Listening to John Peackock, “Buddhism before the Theravada” http://www.audiodharma.org/series/207/talk/2602/ John Peacock is a Buddhologist, linguistic expert in the ancient languages of India and Tibet and expert translator of the early Buddhist cannon; ordained monk practicing in both Theravadan and Tibetan traditions; teacher of the dharma. John Peacock’s teachings “Buddhism before the Theravada” are taken from… Read More Keepin’ it Real: Awakenings of the Past 24 Hours
Tricycle promo: Now playing: Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance (November 17–30) “Does Western Buddhism encourage its adherents to serenely ignore their participation in the capitalist machine? So says prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whose pointed critique was inspired by this documentary. Featuring commentary from speakers as diverse as Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dzongzar Khyentse Rinpoche and economist Arnoud Boot, Sandcastles breaks open the… Read More Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance
