I recently told a member of a Buddhist social organization that I was post-Buddhist. As a response I got a great big “Whoa!”. Like, ‘how dare you say that you are post-Buddhist’, or at least that’s how the reaction felt to me. I explained that I have to go beyond Buddhism to deal with issues… Read More Going Beyond Buddhism
Editor: I don’t share anything in this blog unless I have read, watched or listened to it myself first. What you see here in this blog is the work I am doing on myself and my own blindness on racism and white supremacy. I invite you to do this work with me, in your own… Read More MTV-White People Full Documentary
From http://imcw.org/Resources/Article-Detail/ID/244/Why-Its-So-Hard-to-Talk-to-White-People-About-Racism; also hosted on Buddhists for Racial Justice: Call to White Buddhists Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why white people implode when talking about race. I am white. I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race. This is what I… Read More Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
Harvard Buddhist Community recording of a conference on Race and Racism within a Buddhist context. Great discussion, please watch!
So you’re a social change maker looking to shake things up this year? Here are some ideas on how to make your campaign stand out with story-based strategy: 1. Cast Your Characters Who is the protagonist of this story? Can we see their face(s)? Hear their voice? Often times the most memorable thing about a… Read More Doyle Canning: Five Ways to Change the Story in 2016
Doyle Canning strategist, co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, doylecanning.com Nov 12 originally published at https://medium.com/@doylecanning/nunca-mas-people-powered-strategy-in-the-time-of-trump-a10c214b05db#.s4vse3ayi My mother was in Buenos Aires during the dirty war of the 1970s. She was stringing for an international wire service and began reporting on the disappearances of student leftists, Jews, and the intellegensia. She began making lists of people. Gathering facts.… Read More ¡Nunca Mas! People Powered Strategy in the Time of Trump
The fact that creed and existential spirituality are interinvolved but not equivalent opens up the possibility of a new pluralist assemblage. The new assemblage will not be organized around one class, one party, or one secular creed. Rather, in an age of multiple minorities of multiple sorts diverse constituencies may draw upon spiritual affinities across… Read More Spiritual Secular Movements in the Anthropocene
