Angry Asian Buddhist has revealed the apotheosis of corporate Buddhism: Buddha as your guarantee of customer service. Meet “Buddhy” the customer service icon and guru from “Zendesk” (no kidding) who will make sure that the customer service rep at the other end of the line will never get upset, angry, or have any concern for self,… Read More Buddha and Customer Service
World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction BY JOE ROMM POSTED ON NOVEMBER 2, 2014 AT 10:56 AM “World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction” Humanity’s choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming and costs a mere 0.06% of… Read More Scientists Report Irreversible Impacts of Climate Inaction
Fulon Gong members and others imprisoned, tortured and abused as slave labour to make Halloween decorations. The New York Times The administrative building of the Masanjia labor camp and other facilities in China. By ANDREW JACOBS MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at… Read More Behind Cry for Help From China Labor Camp
November 11, 2011 We all know our humanity all too well. That is why we put the focus on recognizing that part of us that isn’t in the human-ness. Not to deny the humanity but to bring a balance about. Because that’s what you offer another person. When I look at some of you… Read More Ram Dass: Unbearable Compassion
On September 11, 1955, ten years after the bombing of Hiroshima, D. T. Suzuki— one of the most influential figures in introducing Zen Buddhism to the West—gave a keynote address at the unveiling ceremony of the statue of Shinran Shonin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who survived the bombing of Hiroshima and founded Jodo Shinshu (Shin) Buddhism: The present… Read More We Must Not Become Statues
Ok, so we’ve now gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. So now you can use mindfulness to pretend to be an NBA rock star like Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant. American Buddhism par excellence. What’s going on here? Did Tricycle just suddenly jump on the corporate Buddhism bandwagon? Or maybe the article on “white trash… Read More Mindfulness, NBA Style
Malala Yousafzai Has a Wise Message About Terrorism for the World By Coleen Jose October 22, 2014 “The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education,” she said. “Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.” The news: Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived a gunshot to the head by the Taliban for her… Read More Send books, not weapons. Education, not Drones, will stop terrorism.
