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Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us

For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall. George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 14 October 2014 19.49 BST … Continue reading

2014/11/12 · 2 Comments

Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something

Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so don’t get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the … Continue reading

2014/11/11 · 4 Comments

Energy East Mega-Pipeline: Risks to Canadians

2014/11/10 · Leave a comment

Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time

Posted on Nov 9, 2014 By Chris Hedge Numbered footnotes, with hyperlinks, appear at the end of this article. My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate—“God grant me … Continue reading

2014/11/10 · Leave a comment

Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas

[Developing story: I will be expanding on this article over the next little while, eventually to become part of a book on tantric Buddhism as engaged practice.] Danielle Levitt, photographer, … Continue reading

2014/11/09 · 2 Comments

How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance

Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned … Continue reading

2014/11/08 · Leave a comment

Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide

The fossil fuel industry knows full well that their product is causing the sickness and death of people everywhere that oil, gas and coal are being mined, shipped and burned. … Continue reading

2014/11/05 · Leave a comment

Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste

by Alan Senauke And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right … Continue reading

2014/11/04 · Leave a comment

DPR on the Forum Panel for Awake in Seattle Nov. 15

  Dear Sangha Family: We have some excellent news:  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has confirmed his participation on the November 15 panel at “Awake in Seattle,” the 10th anniversary of our sangha home, … Continue reading

2014/11/04 · Leave a comment

Refuge Recovery on the East Coast Canada

First, as always, there was Vancouver. But now, there’s Halifax. Refuge Recovery Halifax kicks off this Thursday November 6 at 7 PM at the Dalhousie University Multifaith Centre. 

2014/11/04 · Leave a comment

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