Lama Rod Owens’ teaches at Worldwide Insight on ‘The Practice of Love as Social Resistance”, Lama Rod offers profound teachings on Buddhist approaches to non-violent resistance to dominant forms of … Continue reading →
Almost from the beginning of this blog, I have tried to understand what ‘sangha’ is, and what it means to ‘take refuge in the sangha’. I figured out a few … Continue reading →
The Aro g’Ter lineage offers one of the best explanations of the spirituality of emptiness and non-duality that I have seen. What I have found amongst Mahayana/Vajrayana sects (Dzogchen in … Continue reading →
“Right Now, It’s Like This”: It’s a phrase whose usage is catching on, especially among members of the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society community, and related groups like Dharma … Continue reading →
[Editor: Over the last eight years, I’ve carefully examined Buddhism and found that, aside from some unusual doctrines (like ’emptiness’), it functions pretty much like any other religion. People use … Continue reading →
[Dear Readers: wow, a deluge of postings today. Links have been piling up in my inbox since the beginning of June. My goal is to eventually publish a book on … Continue reading →
Buddhist Education for Social Transformation (BEST) program originally published at Women for Peace and Justice The Buddhist Education for Social Transformation (BEST) course is an innovative yearlong certificated course focused … Continue reading →
Local assemblies transform citizens. We are made new humans by participating. We grow beyond capitalist modernity. “Nature is intelligence, diversity, and self-organisation. Municipalism is self-organisation at the level of cities.” —Vandana Shiva … Continue reading →
[Editor: the survival of humanity as a species is dependent on at least two social factors: (1) the capacity to transcend tribalism; and (2) the capacity to trust, share and … Continue reading →
3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies Nafeez Ahmed June 15 The world is at a point of no return. We find ourselves … Continue reading →
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