Published on Jul 28, 2017 Selected excerpts of what some of the participants shared on the recent NABA (North American Buddhist Alliance) webinar: Recentering Asian Americans into American Buddhism with Dr. Funie Hsu. NABA now has a Google Group for us to continue this conversation: “NABA’s Recentering Asian Americans Webinar Group”.   Advertisements

Published on Aug 7, 2017 Rarely heard voices, rarely publicized history. In this NABA (North American Buddhists Alliance) webinar on racial justice, Dr. Funie Hsu, assistant profess at SJSU and an Asian American female Buddhist, presents material that every Buddhist interested in community on American soil should know about. Dr. Hsu’s powerpoint presentation is edited… Read More Dr. Funie Hsu: Recentering Asian-Americans in American Buddhism

Sogyal Rinpoche, founder of Rigpa Int’l., has resigned from his position as spiritual leader of the sangha. Eight of his students wrote a 12-page letter in which they detailed his alleged abuses, of four kinds: physical abuse resulting in injury, sexual abuse and exploitation, psychological abuse, and appropriation of dana (donations) for his own wealth.… Read More Sogyal Rinpoche: Criminal Tantric Lama

Russell Brand rips on the opiod crisis in America (but he’s British). More Americans are dying from opioid overdose than have died from gun deaths, car crashes and HIV/AIDS. As we showed in “Deaths of Despair”, while mortality from disease has gone down in all age groups, deaths from alcoholism, addiction and suicide have gone back… Read More Russell Brand Rips on the Opiod Crisis

What I Mean When I Say ‘White’ by Tad Hargrave editor of  Healing from Whiteness: remembering the larger story of history.   On the Invention of a White Race In the 17th century the term white was first used to distinguish people by physical features in regard to economic, political, and legal rights. Race is fluid, and changes… Read More Whiteness: The Great Erasure

In response to the outbreak of violent white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia (only one of countless thousands of such violent outbreaks), this is the first of a series called ‘Decolonizing Whiteness: Doing Our Own Work’. We look at the ways Whiteness was constructed historically—and thus colonized—by Capitalism and the Corporate State to both strip european… Read More Decolonizing Whiteness: Doing Our Own Work

Lama Rod Owens discusses his ethics of non-harm, right action and radical love in the Trump era. This video was recorded after the outbreak of violent white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 14.