DPR: Genuine Emotional Freedom
“If someone hurts our feelings, offends us, or shocks us, we can’t even name the intense emotions we feel at first. The feelings haven’t yet formed into anger or any … Continue reading
All I Need: the Social Is the Spiritual
I’m going through a series of videos by Radiohead on YT. This one is about child labour exploitation, and the differences in life experience by white children from Western countries … Continue reading
The Tar Sands Bubble: Keep Blocking Pipelines
by Brian Palmer, originally published by Onearth | OCT 7, 2014 Photo credit: Lou Gold The Canadian tar sands industry has seen better days. Energy giant Statoil announced last week that it would postpone … Continue reading
The Flat Tire of ‘Mindfulness’
Ouch! Systemic Suffering and the Fourth Noble Truth by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Many see this path as a personal improvement or as an achievement ladder in becoming (and appearing) Buddhist. However, among … Continue reading
Black Buddha: Buddhism as Cultural Critique
I went to the Atlantic News stand on Morris St. in Halifax today. I poked around at the Buddhist magazines, looking for something intriguing, or at least inspiring. Or just … Continue reading
Delusion
At its core, delusion is self-centredness; likewise, self-centredness is by nature, delusional. Delusion is creating a world of my imagination that is all about me, my needs, my wants, my … Continue reading
Give Up the Ghost
Give Up the Ghost Dennis Hunter, One Human Journey Posted: 30 Sep 2014 09:08 PM PDT Don’t think that there is some “I” that needs to be moved aside, seen through, left … Continue reading
Rat Sangha
Rat sangha, rat sangha my fellow rats my brother, sister rats let me sit with you here in the alley way I smell like food but I have none today … Continue reading
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