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Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something

Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so don’t get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the … Continue reading

2014/11/11 · 4 Comments

Energy East Mega-Pipeline: Risks to Canadians

2014/11/10 · Leave a comment

Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas

[Developing story: I will be expanding on this article over the next little while, eventually to become part of a book on tantric Buddhism as engaged practice.] Danielle Levitt, photographer, … Continue reading

2014/11/09 · 2 Comments

How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance

Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned … Continue reading

2014/11/08 · Leave a comment

Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide

The fossil fuel industry knows full well that their product is causing the sickness and death of people everywhere that oil, gas and coal are being mined, shipped and burned. … Continue reading

2014/11/05 · Leave a comment

Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste

by Alan Senauke And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right … Continue reading

2014/11/04 · Leave a comment

Scientists Report Irreversible Impacts of Climate Inaction

World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction BY JOE ROMM POSTED ON NOVEMBER 2, 2014 AT 10:56 AM “World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In … Continue reading

2014/11/02 · Leave a comment

Ram Dass: Unbearable Compassion

  November 11, 2011 We all know our humanity all too well. That is why we put the focus on recognizing that part of us that isn’t in the human-ness. … Continue reading

2014/10/30 · Leave a comment

Send books, not weapons. Education, not Drones, will stop terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai Has a Wise Message About Terrorism for the World  By Coleen Jose  October 22, 2014 “The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education,” she said. “Instead of sending … Continue reading

2014/10/25 · Leave a comment

Marshall Islands Poet Speaks Letter to Her Baby

on her baby’s future impacted by climate change.

2014/10/23 · 1 Comment

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