If the response of the corporate state is repression rather than reform then our strategy and our tactics must be different. We will have to cease our appealing to the system. We will have to view the state, including the Democratic Party, as antagonistic to genuine reform. We will have to speak in the language… Read More Chris Hedges: The Coming Climate Revolt
…”We stood at the turning point.” As we now face the takeover of America by a fascist regime, I am strongly reminded of the words of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous which are read at many 12 Step meetings in North America. It echoes the sense of resolve that we must have to stop the… Read More Half-Measures Availed Us Nothing
TransBuddhists are honouring the life and passing of Nizah Morris, an African American Trans Buddhist who was killed in police custody. Her case is still being covered up until this day, but there’s movement: http://www.epgn.com/news/local/11400-state-news-media-association-files-brief-in-morris-case Remembering Nizah Morris (1955 – December 24, 2002) by transbuddhists Nizah Morris (1955-2002) was one of the United States’ leading African American transgender Buddhists.… Read More Honouring Nizah Morris: Pioneering Black Trans Buddhist
I have seen the future of Buddhism: American Buddhism, neo-liberal Buddhism, Western Buddhism, globalized Buddhism, what have you. It’s the IFC’s new comedy show, The Mirror. Slate is running a story on the new show, and tries to analogize it to The Black Mirror and the Trump regime. But The Mirror is not a take on Trumpism, which is better represented by… Read More Children of The Mirror
I’ve been searching for something I wrote on ‘dukkha’ as ‘unsatisfactoriness’ and while I haven’t found it yet, I’ve come across other writings which I also ‘lost’ some time ago and gave up looking for—but now I’ve found them. Here’s a comment on ‘yuppie Buddhism’ which I once posted to a Tricycle article. It was so scathing and… Read More Refuge in the Sangha
Non-Self and Spiritual Experience are a Natural Result of Shifting Brain Function It’s my opinion, based on my experience, that an increase in capacity for non-dogmatic spiritual experience is concomitant with a decrease in self-centredness, and that this is a completely natural process, based on brain functioning, that all humans are capable of. I believe… Read More Spirituality is a Whole Brain Phenomenon
A conservative group put UM historian Tobin Miller Shearer on ‘Professor Watchlist.’ To Shearer, the threat sounds awfully familiar. By Tobin Miller Shearer In the weeks since I was put on an academic watchlist, I have thought often about one of the biggest bastards that I know. I only talked to him once and that was… Read More Shearer: American History Prof. on Watchlist
