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Are We Surrounded by Warriors in the World?

No Magic Bullet is a book for anyone interested in exploring the causes of and solutions to children’s attentional / behavioral / emotional difficulties today In the links below there … Continue reading

2014/12/05 · Leave a comment

Haida Raid 3: Save Our Waters Animation

A new music video featuring the music of Kinnie Starr has stop-motion wood carved characters confronting Prime Minister Stephen Harper, depicted on a super tanker travelling around Haida Gwaii. Haida Raid 3: Save … Continue reading

2014/12/04 · Leave a comment

Thay: In Love with the Earth

  Posted on August 1, 2014 by 1earthsangha To transform our relationship with the Earth, we need to begin from a place of love, writes Zen master, poet, and peace and human rights … Continue reading

2014/12/04 · Leave a comment

Sit 350 in Boston Protests Rising Carbon Levels

[Editor: The Buddhist response to climate change also has to include reducing the impact of Buddhism on the climate. Namely, practitioners can stop flying by air, chasing gurus around the globe, … Continue reading

2014/12/04 · 1 Comment

Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson

Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson by Cristina Moon I’m sitting in my home in Oakland, California, meditating as police helicopters fly overhead. I am not at the protests demanding justice … Continue reading

2014/11/27 · Leave a comment

Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins

Let’s look to one of the saints of the 20th Century — Mahatma Gandhi. On October 22, 1925, Gandhi published a list he called the Seven Social Sins in his … Continue reading

2014/11/20 · 3 Comments

Dubai Royals to Rob Masai of Ancestral Homelands

Tanzania accused of backtracking over sale of Masai’s ancestral land Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the … Continue reading

2014/11/18 · Leave a comment

Remembering Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Communist

Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”  By hir wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt. Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, … Continue reading

2014/11/17 · Leave a comment

Sangharakshita: Anti-establishment Buddhism

Tricycle: How do you account for Buddhist monasticism, at least as you experienced it, as having evolved in such a uninspiring way? Sangharakshita: Initially, the Buddha’s teachings had to be preserved through … Continue reading

2014/11/16 · Leave a comment

Pope Francis Against Free Market Ideology

Pope Francis: “Unbridled consumerism” will have destructive consequences for the planet In letter to host of upcoming G-20 summit, the pope decries free market fundamentalism LUKE BRINKER Pope Francis  (Credit: AP/Alessandra … Continue reading

2014/11/13 · Leave a comment

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