Posted by: Katie Loncke Posted date: October 29, 2013 In: Articles | comment : 14 BPF’s recent “radical rebirth” is more than just a slogan. It’s an exciting and daunting project for us, and for the great people (you!) who are building this community with us. How do we put the Buddha’s teachings into action — in innovative, challenging, and joyful ways? It’s… Read More 10 Principles of Our Radical Rebirth as Buddhist Activists
Do Bodhisattvas get Angry? A Response to the Killing of Eric Garner. Via Rev. M. Jamil Scotton Dec 5, 2014 As the devastating news of the lack of justice in the brutal slaying of Eric Garner was released, I was suddenly jolted from a state of numbness that had taken hold of my mind since… Read More Do Bodhisattvas get Angry?
I am exploring the origins of the Tara cult in India, both in Hindu and Buddhist cults. The Hindu origin of Tara seems to be that she is one of the Saivic Goddesses, along with Shakti, Durga, Lakshmi, Kali and related Goddesses. Ethnoarcheaologist Elora Tribedy has published two papers that explore the origins, history and geo-cultural spread… Read More Who is Tara? Indic Hindu and Buddhist Origins
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 activist Thích Nhất Hạnh in his small but profound book, Love Letter to the Earth. In this excerpt, he gently urges us not to see the Earth as… Read More Thay: In Love with the Earth
Thich Nhat Hanh: we must look beyond our seperate selves to save Mother Earth from climate change. Photograph: AP Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s leading spiritual teachers, is a man at great peace even as he predicts the possible collapse of civilisation within 100 years as a result of runaway climate change.… Read More Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us from Climate Change
As a trans-queer Buddhist, I find that I must walk the path of the outcaste, the radical faerie, the siddha. I practice on the fringes of sangha, always on the margins, never at the core. Siddha practice in liminal, contested and sometimes dangerous spaces with fellow outcastes. The ancient Buddhist siddhas were often monastics who revolted against… Read More A Lone Buddhist Manifesto
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, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica, after decades of illness.… Read More Remembering Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Communist
