Deep Anger: We need to rediscover something we lost along the way
By Darren Fleet and Stefanie Krasnow / adbusters.org In a better world, there’d be no reason to write this. In that world, plastic bags would be outlawed, rednecks would voluntarily stop driving those obnoxious Ford … Continue reading
Van Jones and Green for All National Forum on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Communities of Color
On September 29th, 2015, national, congressional, community, and faith leaders gathered at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to advance the Clean Power Plan for the health, wealth, and … Continue reading
Post-Buddhism: No Grand Narrative
One non-Buddhist writer (I can’t remember who) described the Buddha as “a pre-modern post-modernist.” Buddha’s method of inquiry was one of relentless deconstruction. His teachings deconstruct experience, physical and mental phenomena, religious … Continue reading
Racial Bias Warps How We See Faces
Your Brain Warps People’s Faces To Match Stereotypes, New Research Shows CREDIT: Shutterstock/Laurel Raymond Implicit biases are incredibly powerful. Unconscious stereotypes affect how we evaluate who is running for political office, who … Continue reading
The Great Feast of Human Wisdom
I received this message of wisdom from Krishna Das today. Krishna Das is a Bhakti Yoga practitioner who also practices and studies Buddhist meditation and dharma. What he shared with us … Continue reading
Post-Buddhism: No Religion
Buddhists teachers will often say that Buddhism is not a religion. But when you enter a temple or join a sangha, what you are confronted with is something that looks … Continue reading
New Punk Jazz tracks from Roughgarden
Dharma punks do the being-in-the-moment punk-jazz improv. Featuring Emily Davidson on bass, Selwyn Sharples on drums, and Shaun doing spoken word. https://roughgarden.bandcamp.com/track/spray-paint-i-am-curious-orange-buddhafield-physics https://roughgarden.bandcamp.com/track/super-intensity-punk-jazz-improv
Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death
The murder of Xulhaz Mannan and another man have been condemned by the US ambassador Bangladesh police say a top gay rights activist and editor at the country’s only LGBT … Continue reading
TruthDig: Tax Havens Set Up by US State Dept
The Panama Papers: Tax havens in Panama, Liberia and elsewhere were set up by the US State Dept. in the 1960s to launder money from global criminal enterprise, to make … Continue reading
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