Watch this excellent DN interview with Shoshona Zuboff on her new book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Part 1 explains most of it;  Part 2 is a bit of a recap. Advertisements

And you can’t run democracy by the hate machine being fueled through the divide-and-rule policy of the 1 percent to destroy our oneness, our solidarity, our recognition that we are one humanity and can be strong when we fight for the rights of the planet and for our basic rights to food and water and… Read More Vandana Shiva: Oneness vs. the One Percent

In this interview, Dr. David Suzuki, Canadian environmental scientist and educator, talks about the latest science of climate change. Suzuki makes the jaw-dropping statement based on a recent climate report that there is less than a 5% chance that planetary temperature rise will stay below 2º Celsius this century per the UN IPCC Paris Agreement.… Read More David Suzuki: Time to Talk Extinction

This reflection by Charles Eisenstein is based on his book of sacred activism, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. Our civilization is entering a profound transition. For simplicity, I call it a transition from the story of Separation to the story of Interbeing. As this shift gathers momentum, the old answers to… Read More From Separation to Interbeing

Recent scandals in Buddhist sanghas have revolved around the patriarchal abuse by male teachers and gurus of their students and community members, women especially, but men as well. Perhaps what is needed is a breakdown of patriarchal models of masculinity and the evolution of new models of masculinity. Jiro Taylor’s interview with Charles Eisenstein begins with… Read More Masculinity: A New Story

FEBRUARY 17, 2019 BY JUSTIN WHITAKER A thirty-five page letter was issued yesterday by six of the closest attendants of Mipham Mukpo (Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche) detailing their experiences of verbal, physical and sexual abuse in vivid detail. Recollections include female students being “pushed to rationalize [sex] as a generous offering to their revered teacher”, stories… Read More Further abuse accusations against Sakyong Mipham

[Editor: this is another one of those posts that I started first on Dharma Nerds, but wondered whether it should really be on Engage!. So it goes on both blogs.] What I found stifling about Western Buddhist practice is the obsessive focus on meditation as the paramount practice. What is completely lacking in modern Buddhist… Read More Buddhism as Complete Culture