by Matthew O’Connell Part 1: https://posttraditionalbuddhism.com/2014/07/14/collapse-awaken-submission-for-the-dark-mountain/ Collapse & Awaken: submission for the Dark Mountain This was a piece I wrote for the Dark Mountain Project about a year or so back. It’s been hanging around gathering computer dust amongst other lost projects, so as it’s been a while since I’ve written anything for the site, I… Read More Collapse and Awaken by Matthew O’Connell
The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More Jazz has inspired a great many things, and a great many things have inspired jazz, and more than a few of the music’s masters have found their aspiration by looking — or listening — to the… Read More Open Culture: Jazz Heaven
Harbour Tableaux The Harbour is the harbour framed by the living room window a momentary drama of stillness The Bridge is the bridge despite being raised by two metres to allow super-size container ships to pass underneath The Buildings are the buildings their human occupants obscured behind shades drawn by nightfall The Trees are the… Read More Poetry and Suchness: Harbour Tableaux
What I love about this conversation is the way Allen and Ram Das playfully use Buddhist terms, like ‘awakening’ and ‘shunyata’ when describing popular culture. They aren’t concerned about sticking to doctrinaire use of the terms within a religious context, or adhering to their scriptural origins. It’s that kind of playfulness and creativity with Buddhist… Read More Ram Dass and Allen Ginsberg in Conversation
Your sacred wild self by Yeshe Matthews. Do you know who you are apart from the opinions of others? Do you know who you are without the labels you apply to yourself or your process of identity in the public sphere? Do you know who you are without your accomplishments and mistakes? Do you know… Read More Your Sacred Wild Self
THE PAIN YOU FEELSeptember 6, 2000 By Adbusters Tags: Capitalism, Environmentalism, #127 Mike Kiev I was drifting through cyberspace recently, not really absorbing the words in front of me, when I came across a sentence that tripped me up, so to speak, and forced me to pay attention. That sentence read: “The pain you feel… Read More The Pain You Feel
