Get out of the Car: Awakening At The Grand Canyon
A year before my mother died of cancer, we went to the Grand Canyon together. Her brother, my uncle Gus, lived in Mesa, Arizona, and he wanted to fulfill one … Continue reading
Engaged in Service and Relationship
April 08, 2015 In the Spirit of Service [Editor; I’m highlighting Sharon Salzburg’s statement below because engagement is not limited to social justice or service work. We also engage in our relationships … Continue reading
STOP EATING BEEF:
STOP EATING BEEF: http://www.cowspiracy.com Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary … Continue reading
The One Demand: Is Occupy the First Buddhist Mass Movement?
Buddhist teachings on emptiness challenge us to think about broad-based social movements as an unfolding process, as that which has deep roots in history, and which has no certainty of outcomes, no guarantee of arriving at a projected utopian … Continue reading
Buddha & Marx Pt. 2: Dr. Ambedkar’s Marxism
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar undertook a ten year study of Buddhism, primarily of the Pali cannon, but also the Mahayana texts, which formed the basis of his book, The Buddha and … Continue reading
Buddha and Marx Pt. 1: The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism
The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism | Adbusters by Stuart Smithers https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/102/spiritual-crisis-of-capitalism.html also published in Tricycle.com Audio version read by Sloan Garrett – Right-click to download When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist … Continue reading
The Next System
The next system will be ecologically sustainable, powered by renewable energy, based on cooperative enterprise, sharing, interconnectedness, local to global. In the future, no one will have a “job”. The … Continue reading
The Beat that My Heart Skipped
Where to begin? It’s been a magical 24 hours. Last night I nailed it down: I read Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma, Parts III-V on “what the Buddha taught’. … Continue reading
Revisiting Buddhist Anarchism
Posted by: Kenji Liu Posted date: June 05, 2013 In: Dhamma, Economics | comment : 63 http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/revisiting-buddhist-anarchism/ I’ve been revisiting Buddhist anarchism lately, the strain of socially engaged Buddhism that some foundational Buddhist Peace Fellowship movers and shakers were … Continue reading
17th Karmapa Gets Engaged!
“The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe have all arisen interdependently. We cannot survive alone. We cannot eat, wear clothes, or breathe alone. The more … Continue reading
Engage! 