I’m reading Mindful Compassion (2014) by Dr. Paul Gilbert and Choden. It’s a continuation of Gilbert’s work on the neuroscience of compassion, captured in his first book The Compassionate Mind (2009). Gilbert’s work on compassion is based in evolutionary psychology. Like me, he saw the parallels in Buddhist teachings and evolution. For that reason, I’d like to… Read More Dr. Paul Gilbert: Mindful Compassion
Bayo Akomolafe Bayo is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change, and was recently enlisted as the recipient of the Global Excellence Award (Civil Society) 2014 by FutureShapers (California). He is the Initiating/Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project) [http://www.emergencenetwork.org], and host… Read More The Burden of the New Story
http://engagedbuddhism.net/bodhgaia-dharmaecology/ BodhGaia is the story of awakening to the dharma of evolution, ecology and cosmic spirituality. “Dharma” is not just the teachings of the Buddha and the writings of the early Buddhists in the sutras. “Dharma” means “law”, “all natural phenomena,” “what is”, reality. Dharmaecology is the dharma of relatedness, of the interconnectedness of all phenomena. BodhGaia is a telling… Read More BodhGaia: Dharmaecology and the Eco-Evolutionary Story
[Editor: I am always on the lookout for new approaches to engagement and social action. This blog, The Emergence Network, which I stumbled into via Bayo Akomolafe’s piece (The Burden of the New Story), is exactly what I have been looking for and where I am going.] What if the way we respond to the… Read More The Emergence Network
by Michel Bauwens: originally posted at opendemocracy.net https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michel-bauwens/if-we-can-have-p2p-economics-why-not-p2p-spirituality See my take on this topic: Encuentro: A New Model of Sangha Self-organizing fish shoal. Credit: http://cognition.ups-tlse.fr. All rights reserved. Is it possible to peer produce spiritual experience and insight, just as knowledge, software and code for computers are peer produced by communities of self-organizing individuals? If so, does this matter?… Read More If we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?
The following is a reproduction of a conversation we are having at Triratna Gender Diverse Buddhists on one member’s struggle with doubts about Buddhism and ‘being’ a Buddhist as opposed to practicing Buddhism. Of course, we all share the same struggle. As John Holloway would say, it’s our ‘misfitting’ within the status quo that is… Read More A Healthy Sangha Works with Struggle and Doubt
Insights From Mississippi on Organizing in a Right-Wing Context: A Conversation With Kali Akuno “What can we do that would lend us towards being in a position to shape the outcome of society on a municipal scale?” That led us to the creation of the Jackson-Kush Plan. Out of that plan, there were some things that we… Read More Resisting Oppression and Rebuilding Democracy
