Righteous Callings: Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith Kai Cheng Aug 8 originally published at Medium. “Ideology is a sick fetish” — Porpentine Charity Heartscape Photo by Thien Viet Deep down, I have always believed that I’m a bad person and that the world we live in is an awful place. Maybe that’s just what… Read More Kai Cheng: Backstage at Activist Theatre
Attending Cambridge University Union in 1965, Baldwin debates whether the ‘American dream’ has been achieved at the expense of African-Americans. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGuardianUs%2Fvideos%2F631112947076472%2F&show_text=0&width=476
What is it that relieves suffering? Love, real love and direct connection with other human beings around you. Giving and receiving love. Knowing and caring for someone intimately, and letting them know and care for you. Connection with other human beings, connection with life relieves suffering. Show me where this is written in the Suttas.… Read More Lama Rod Owens: Liberation is Love
Buddhism is not about love. I wish it was—it could be, but it’s not. Love is not the primary focus of Buddhist practice; it’s awakening from delusion. Love is the primary focus of yogis like Baba Ram Das and others in the Bhakti yoga movement, which is why I have been drawn to it over… Read More Summer of Love, Reprise
About practice…yeah I still do that thing. I've crossed a couple of practice rubicons recently. Let me share what I've learned: The Energy Flow of Meditation. I was always taught by Buddhist meditation teachers to sit up straight, but with my head tilted down, chin slightly tucked in toward the chest. After ten years of… Read More Just Sitting?
One of my favorite mantras set to music. My composition, my vocals.
Declaration of Interdependence by a Community Posted on September 15, 2016 by Deirdre The following is a Declaration of Interdependence that could be made by every community of, say between 5000 and 25,000 people. Since there are over 4 million people in New Zealand, it could be made by hundreds of different communities. We as… Read More Declaration of Interdependence
