My name is Milañ Loeak, I’m from the Marshall Islands, and I bring you a message on behalf of my Climate Warrior brothers and sisters from across Oceania. You’ve probably heard it all before — that the climate is changing, that the ocean is rising, that my home in the islands will be the first… Read More Climate Warriors in Marshall Islands Go After Coal Port in Aus
I’m beginning to understand the connection between shunyata and compassion, or love. Primordial emptiness is Prajnaparamita, Mother of the Buddhas. In Hindu, it is Shakti, it is the Primordial Void, it is the feminine divine. Because it is formless, out of it arises all forms. If there were some fundamental form to it, that form… Read More Mother of the Buddhas
Fleet Maull: Service as Path
Power and Pedagogy by Richard K. Payne from Critical Reflections on Buddhist Thought: Contemporary and Classical ” It seems to me that the advice of the Buddha was not to change how you think about things so that you’re happy and content with them as they are, but rather to see things as they are.” by the… Read More Mindfulness and the Institutional Abuse of Power
“If someone hurts our feelings, offends us, or shocks us, we can’t even name the intense emotions we feel at first. The feelings haven’t yet formed into anger or any other solid emotion. For a moment, we’re suspended in a space of pure openness, where anything is possible. If we can just stop and remain… Read More DPR: Genuine Emotional Freedom
I’m going through a series of videos by Radiohead on YT. This one is about child labour exploitation, and the differences in life experience by white children from Western countries as compared with their Asian working class counterparts. Radiohead makes videos that convey both social and spiritual themes. In fact, what they show is that… Read More All I Need: the Social Is the Spiritual
by Brian Palmer, originally published by Onearth | OCT 7, 2014 Photo credit: Lou Gold The Canadian tar sands industry has seen better days. Energy giant Statoil announced last week that it would postpone a major mining project in Alberta for at least three years. It was just the latest in a string of major setbacks for tar sands oil,… Read More The Tar Sands Bubble: Keep Blocking Pipelines
