Editor: The following post is an attempt to sketch out a post-modern use of the dharma that is not religious, or even “spiritual.”( It’s a rough sketch, so expect lots of edits over the next few weeks.) Personally, I use the dharma as both a heuristic device and as a humanist spirituality. But the purpose of my post… Read More Post-Buddhism: Dharma as a Heuristic Device
[Editor: the author’s name is not listed on the original web post] DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR: THE BASICS OF A GENUINE ANTI-COLONIAL POSITION The purpose of this short article is to put to the pen a number of thoughts that have been working themselves out in my head recently about the default eurocentrism of… Read More Decolonization is not a Metaphor: Basics of a Genuine Anti-Colonial Position
Ok, let’s take on what might be considered a legitimate critique: isn’t Post-Buddhism (as I’ve described it so far) just “Hipster Buddhism”? Well folks, Hipsterism is a style, a fashion identity, a pattern of conspicuous consumption. So here’s why post-Buddhism isn’t “hipster Buddhism”: Post-Buddhism involves no conspicuous consumption that identifies me as a hipster or a Buddhist or… Read More Post-Buddhism: Hipster Buddhism?
By ROBERT BEREZIN, MD April 5, 2016 Originally Published in Mad in America “Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.”– Dread Pirate Roberts, in “The Princess Bride” Everywhere you turn, you see “OCD, ASD, MDD, ADD, ADHD, BPD, GAD, PD, SAD, PTSD, NPD,” etc. The problem is not limited to this acronym… Read More Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’
I should make it clear to my readers that I am a sociologist, not a philosopher or a Buddhologist. I don’t read or translate Pali or sanskrit. So I tend not to look at Buddhism from within the tradition. I tend to look at Buddhism from the outside, as a social institution. I critique it from… Read More Post-Buddhism: Networked Dharma is Swarming
Post-Buddhism needs some new sutras to illuminate the experience of the dharma in the 21st century. When I want to awaken with a start to the truths of my sensory experience, deconstruct my mental environment, feel the sharp political edges of my everyday life, I read Adbusters. I sometimes wish all the brilliant X-Post-Non-Un Buddhists would get together… Read More Post-Buddhism: The Adbusters Sutra
Farm workers have sued New York for the right to organize in a groundbreaking lawsuit that demands they receive the same rights as “virtually every other worker,” the New York chapter of the ACLU said on Tuesday. The lawsuit claims that laborers are being forced to work in “life-threatening, sweatshop-like conditions” and are prevented from… Read More Farm Workers Sue Over Labor Rights in Landmark Case for ‘Dignity and Humanity’
