Buddhists Blockade Hotel to Protest Police-Military Training [Note: If you’re local to the Bay Area and would like to participate in the growing coalition campaign to Stop Urban Shield, join the large rally and protest outside the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland at 4pm on Friday, Sept. 5th.] A war is raging, not just overseas, but… Read More A Model Of Meaningfully Engaged Buddhism
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Editors [Editor: Creston Davis, the editor of the Insurrections series, is looking for material that covers Buddhist insurrectionist theory and critique. I have submitted my work “Outcastes as Activists: A Tantric Approach to Engaged Buddhism” for this series.] The intersection of religion,… Read More Insurrectionist Theology: critical studies in religion, politics and culture
NOTE: I WAS FORCED TO REMOVE THIS STORY BY THE PUBLISHER, RICOCHET MEDIA. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT BUILDING A CLIMATE MOVEMENT. MAKE SURE YOU NEVER SUPPORT THEIR PUBLICATIONS EVER. RICOCHET MEDIA IS A SCAM OPERATION THAT TRIES TO SELL YOU A “MEMBERSHIP” FOR $25 THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING BUT MAKE THEM RICH. Since the 2011 arrest… Read More Bill McKibben on Energy East
We all have different places in the racial hierarchy. But we can still work together for justice. Rinku Sen August 27, 2014 | This article appeared in the September 15, 2014 edition of The Nation. Roxanne Grimes and other union members, activists and students protest against proposed reductions in government funding of education in 2011. (AP Photo/Matt… Read More As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat
In Buddhism, there are three yanas or vehicles for realizing enlightenment. Yāna means “vehicle”, where “vehicle” means “a way of going to enlightenment”. There is Śrāvakayāna or the self-liberation vehicle, there is Mahayana or the greater vehicle, and there is Vajrayana or the diamond or indestructible vehicle. And then there is the perfect vehicle. I… Read More The Perfect Vehicle
August 21, 2014 by Justin Whitaker I am honored this month to share an interview with the creators of transbuddhists.organd a guide to trans*competence (links below). Please read on and visit their website to find out more about how you can make Buddhism more inclusive. Who counts as “trans*” and why is it important for Buddhists today to understand the term? We… Read More Trans*Buddhism: interview with transbuddhists.org
I’ve done several posts over the last three months explaining what I know to be true about buddhadharma: that we already have buddhanature, and that enlightenment is not an extraordinary experience, but nothing other than our ordinary minds. I wrote about this on June 30: If you spend your life in spiritual practice so that… Read More The Audacity of Enlightenment
