https://youtu.be/zOYhiWjrZeA I think it’s time for me to begin the project of queering the dharma, of producing queer dharma. Queering the dharma is a practice, following the French root of ‘queer’, of torquing or twisting the dharma, of introducing contradictions and tensions. I’m not focusing (exclusively) on sexuality and gender, but on the process of… Read More Queer Dharma
I went to a Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting, for the first time this morning. They are a Christian tradition going back almost 400 years to the Protestant Reformation in the UK and the Netherlands. Their ‘worship’ tradition is to sit together in silence on Sunday mornings for one hour. There are no requirements other… Read More Quaker Bodhisattva
As Josh Korda has said in his previous talks, in terms of neuroscience, the human brain hasn’t evolved much at all in half a million years. But what has evolved? Human civilizations and cultures. Much of what is evolving about our brains is not located inside our skulls. The continued evolution of our brain is happening… Read More Awakening Our Collective Brain
Umair Haque has a profound understanding of collapse in America. He claims, and I think he is right, that the United States has already collapsed. The collapse he elucidates is not a technological collapse, i.e. not a shortage of material goods, food, water, power and transport, but a uniquely social collapse, in which no one… Read More Umair Haque: How America Collapsed
The world’s task is this. Should the world follow the American model — extreme capitalism, no public investment, cruelty as a way of life, the perversion of everyday virtue — then these new social pathologies will follow, too. They are new diseases of the body social that have emerged from the diet of junk food — junk media, junk science, junk… Read More Umair Haque: Pathologies of Collapse
[Editor: This article from the Canadian National Observer reports the cost imposed on the Canadian taxpayer by oil production from Alberta’s tar sands in terms of carbon emissions and other pollution. What it should also include is the astronomical cost of cleaning up the mess left behind as oil production shuts down over the next several… Read More The True Cost of Producing Oil
What we’re saying is: “I see how you got to that point in your life. I can see your process and start to dismantle that process through a lens of understanding, which is only focused through compassion and empathy. I see the suffering. I don’t agree with how you’re managing your suffering, but I see… Read More Life After Hate
