[Note: been there, felt that, got the t-shirt.] Posted by Frances Lee on July 13, 2017 at 9:36am PDT There is a particularly aggressive strand of social justice activism weaving in and out of my Seattle community that has troubled me, silenced my loved ones, and turned away potential allies. I believe in justice. I… Read More Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice

Recovery 2.0 Online Conference – July 12-16, 2017 http://recovery2point0.com/conference/ https://player.vimeo.com/video/221960163 RECOVERY 2.0 CONFERENCE ONLINE. GLOBAL. FREE. 25 Powerful Interviews about Healing, Recovery and Life Beyond Addiction. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Click on a presenter’s face to get the details of their talk. WEDNESDAY JULY 12TH SATURDAY JULY. 15TH

Healing the First Wound umair haque Jul 10 [Note: I’ve been reading posts by Umair Haque at Medium, his reflections on the state of American politics, very insightful stuff. But this is his writing on spirituality, a sort of non-dualist take on Heidegger’s Being and Time.] If we really gain an awareness of time, I think… Read More Everything is Happening

Most Buddhists are taught to think of the Four Noble Truths as four separate doctrines, each one leading to the other in succession. Stephen Batchelor teaches it as “the four tasks”, as four separate tasks, practiced successively or simultaneously in combination as a total path. I have begun to think of the Four Noble Truths… Read More 4 Noble Truths as One Evolutionary Cycle

This talk by Leslie Booker in Worldwide Insight is a rich stew of mindful insights and embodied practices, offering many different kinds of dharma approaches to activism.  Leslie has taught yoga and meditation practice to youths in juvenile penal systems and Riker’s Island prison. Leslie looks deeply into her own patterns of anger and reactivity… Read More Leslie Booker: Self-Preservation of Activism

  No matter how much brutality there is in the world, we still have the power to do good. We are really powerful people.  — Shaun Bartone Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation Image credit: CAC Interns in Action (detail), Juarez Mexico, 2008. CAC Archives.  From Being Driven to Being Drawn Thursday, July 6, 2017 When I… Read More Richard Rohr: From Being Driven to Being Drawn