Ok, so we’ve now gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. So now you can use mindfulness to pretend to be an NBA rock star like Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant. American Buddhism par excellence. What’s going on here? Did Tricycle just suddenly jump on the corporate Buddhism bandwagon? Or maybe the article on “white trash… Read More Mindfulness, NBA Style
Ethan Nichtern is the one Shambhala teacher who teaches in a way that speaks truth to me. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything. It’s not the typical “I’m OK You’re OK” brand of buddhism that Shambhala have become the global purveyors of. [Go ahead and rant back at me in the comments below.] He has a frankness… Read More “What is Tantra?” Not the Buddhist Happy Meal Version
Fleet Maull: Service as Path
Power and Pedagogy by Richard K. Payne from Critical Reflections on Buddhist Thought: Contemporary and Classical ” It seems to me that the advice of the Buddha was not to change how you think about things so that you’re happy and content with them as they are, but rather to see things as they are.” by the… Read More Mindfulness and the Institutional Abuse of Power
Rat sangha, rat sangha my fellow rats my brother, sister rats let me sit with you here in the alley way I smell like food but I have none today but let me sit with you anyway let us sit together and contemplate our existence let us simply breathe. . . breathe in the smell… Read More Rat Sangha
“We would do better to understand and de-structure these corporations. My main concern is social structure that is unjust and violent. Corporations are the biggest and most powerful examples. Most churches, and even the Buddhist Sangha, also have structures that are violent. We cannot ignore that issue. We may talk of “the future of Buddhism”,… Read More Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa: Tackle Social Structures
