In the Winter of Our Discontentby asenauke Nyogen Senzaki was the first Japanese Zen master to live and teach on our shores. Along with one hundred twenty thousand Americans of Japanese ancestry, he was interned as an enemy alien, confined at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. Senzaki Sensei wrote this poem on Buddha’s Enlightenment Day,… Read More Senauke: In the Winter of Our Discontent
thOur friends over at Open Culture landed another solid jab, this time at the Alt-Righists Run Amok who have taken over the US government. Most of them are at least familiar with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and her screed of hyper-individualism and anti-altruism. What I didn’t know was that at the end of her life she… Read More Ayn Rand on the Dole
And again. . . we need to be reminded of this every day. A protest against Trump at Union Square on Nov. 9. (WNV/Eric Stoner) What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social and traditional media, over dinner… Read More Violence brought us Trump, it’s not how we will stop him
Three friends held our first Queer Dharma Circle on Winter Solstice at Bird Hill Farm in Ware, Massachusetts. Vance, my friend and owner of the farm, my partner Vicky, and myself gathered for meditation and heart-sharing in front of a wood stove. Our Circle brings together Buddhist dharma, meditation and Radical Faerie spirituality. We are… Read More Queer Dharma Circle, Solstice 2016
This letter by Adebayo Akomolafe on whiteness and colonization is so richly complex that it shifts our fixed ideas about every category of race. And it contains within it a profound teaching on ‘dependent co-arising’: For Yoruba people, the world isn’t populated by independent ‘things’, moving by their own internal logic or dynamism. The world is a… Read More An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
December 20, 2016 Thanissara originally published at her blog. So, there it is. A total wipe out. For now, let’s stop battling and shoring up strategies. Instead of floundering around for certainties, for pockets of hope, let’s accept the invitation into something else. That is, a profound stripping away. The world that was, that we knew, that… Read More The Descent
