Toni Morrison: White Supremacy is Pathetic
Toni Morrison passed away yesterday at age 88. In honor of her legacy of empowerment for Black Women and all people of color, I am reprinting her 2016 article linking … Continue reading →
Buddhist ‘Eco-monks’ Work to Protect Thailand’s Environment
Maab-Euang Meditation Center for Sufficiency Economy: Phra Sangkom is teaching Buddhist concepts of personal reflection and a theory called the “sufficiency economy developed by the late Thai monarch Bhumibol Adulyadej, … Continue reading →
Laurie Anderson Gets Religion
Sad, but true. The once great genius of the avant garde who blended pop and performance art, Laurie Anderson has retreated into her post-Lou Reed years as a Buddhist devotee. … Continue reading →
Undone: Video Dharma
I’m willing to explore any form of Buddhist-influenced culture other than the 4 Truths or ’emptiness’, so I offer this new series, Undone, available on Amazon Prime. Are we stuck in … Continue reading →
B. Bodhi at UN on Climate Crisis 2019
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations on Vesak, 2019. Quote: The discourses of the Buddha speak of the causal origins of suffering primarily in the … Continue reading →
Deep Adaptation: Climate Scientists Let Us Down
The following is the most recent article by Dr. Jem Bendell, sociologist and author of Deep Adaptation. He interviews a climate scientist with several decades’ experience in the field, and … Continue reading →
More Arriving: Sarathy Korwar’s Brown Jazz
I always knew this was possible. I’ve been waiting for an album like this forever. Indian jazz that swings classical Indian timbres and scales, overdubbed with South Asian poetic … Continue reading →
Authoritarianism v. Anarchism in Western Buddhism
RefCon 5, the fifth Refuge Recovery Conference, was held in Chicago this month (July 2019). RefCon is an annual gathering of members of Refuge Recovery to celebrate progress for the … Continue reading →
Recovery Dharma Collective is About to Launch
UPDATE: The new Recovery Dharma website is UP and ready to go. Search for local meetings. (Note: the site lists both Recovery Dharma and Refuge Recovery meetings in your area.) … Continue reading →
Toward a Unified Field Theory of Self and World Part 3
[Part of the Ditching the Raft Series.] Well, they’ve gone and done it. They have fully replaced all the difficult dharma of Buddhism with Quantum Field Theory. David Tong at … Continue reading →
