By Jane Brunette [Editor: We welcome author Jane Brunette, a teacher of Buddhism and Indigenous spirituality, to Engage!. Please visit her site at http://flamingseed.com] HOW DOES SPIRITUAL PRACTICE leave the meditation cushion and truly enter our lives as a collective? The whole point of sitting — listening inside, watching and feeling — is to build a… Read More Taking Meditation Off the Cushion and Into the Endangered Forest
Yes, society is basically good. I can say that unequivocally as a social scientist who has studied society in its myriad forms for 30 years, in the fields of Sociology (Ph.D level), Social Work (MSW), and Law (JD), and as someone who has done 30 years of work in the field as a sociologist, social… Read More Is Society Basically Good?
I am continuing my study of the Sutra of the Heart of Transcendent Knowledge and the Prajnaparmita Sutra in 8,000 Lines through reading Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra. I have already read Karl Brunnholzl’s The Heart Attack Sutra and read Andy Carr’s Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner’s Guide to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. The Bodhisattva cannot excuse… Read More Absolute Relativity
What is it that holds the universe together? “There is a vast store of energy which is not centered, which is not ego’s energy at all. It is this energy which is the centerless dance of phenomena, the universe interpenetrating and making love to itself. It has two characteristics: a fire quality of warmth and… Read More Emptiness is Emergence
The Canada v. Bedford decision (2013) by the Canadian Supreme Court required the Canadian government to correct conditions for people in the sex industry who’s safety was threatened by certain regulations, even though the sex trade itself was legal. These regulations made it illegal to communicate for the purposes of contracting for sex, for living… Read More Buddha and the Sex Trade
Conduct Unbecoming: a Trans*Queer Experience of Dharma (by Shaun Bartone) My experience as a trans*queer meditator in Buddhism has yielded a certain experiential truth: 1) I have a particular perspective on dharma and the meditation experience as a trans*queer person; and 2) this experience is not well understood by other dharma practitioners, even those members… Read More Conduct Unbecoming: A Trans*Queer Experience of Dharma
If I could just get five Buddhists in a room together who gave a shit about something, we could change the world. I could do that easily enough if I went to the Buddhist Peace Fellowship retreat in Oakland, CA in August (2014). But I’m not going because, even if I could afford the $1000… Read More Welcome to Engage! the East Coast Engaged Buddhist Blog
