I uploaded a new track produced on my iPad with Novation’s brilliant Launchpad. I soloed over the track with my “electric ukulele”, a cheap guitar synth that was designed as a controller for video game consoles .($189.00 cheap. The Roland GR 500 guitar synth cost over $5000.00 when it first came out in 1977.) It’s my first venture… Read More For Noisy People Who Think Too Much: Electronic Kirtan
Matthew over at Post-Traditional Buddhism is running a great series on Non-Buddhism, and Buddhism as ideology. https://posttraditionalbuddhism.com/2016/12/07/warming-up-with-non-buddhism/ [To Matthew ] I’m interested in following up on your invitation to explore Buddhism as an ideology. About the best explanation of ideology I have read is Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (1970, 56 pages). (I tried… Read More Althusser and the Ideology of Buddhism
Discrimination and destitution defines this vulnerable community. by Zack Ford, published in thinkprogress.org Trans activist Madison White stands with others advocating for change in North Carolina. CREDIT: Brian Gomsak/AP Images On Thursday, the National Center for Transgender Equality revealed the results of the most massive survey of transgender people ever conducted. The picture is not rosy,… Read More Massive survey paints bleak picture for transgender Americans
Greg Snyder, Zen teacher, at the second conference on Buddhism and Race at Harvard Divinity School, said “The Buddha asked us to be critically engaged. We talk a lot about being present, but the Buddha asked us to look and really see how things came to be, and that’s a critical engagement. That’s not just watching… Read More Critical Engagement and SURJ
I finally got to watch this talk by Jnanamitra, given at the first Triratna Gender Diverse Buddhists retreat at Adhisthana in the UK. What a fantastic story! One of the few women to physically transition in the 70s, she was a true pioneer, not only for Triratna, but for trans people in the UK and around the… Read More Jnanamitra: Gender as Embodied Experience
Buddhism is not the dharma. Buddhism is a religion, an institution. The dharma is not a religion. It has no such boundaries. The dharma is limitless. The dharma is not limited to nor contained entirely within Buddhism, within one particular sect or all sects combined. In fact, before Buddhism became globalized in the last century, Buddhism was… Read More Post-Buddhism: The Dharma
“This is not draining the swamp. It’s stocking it with alligators.” ‘Whiteface’ is the theatrical use of white face paint to portray a racialized-white character. I use it in this post as the Trump campaign’s exploitation of the racialized-white rage of poor and working class whites to win an administration that disregards and destroys their… Read More The Whiteface of Neo-Fascism 2: Cornell West
