Joanna Macy & Sulak Sivaraksa: BPF Keynote Aug 2014
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Tag: dharma
Refuge Recovery: Tricycle Interview with Noah Levine
Buddhist teacher Noah Levine’s punk rocker past, social advocacy, and straight-talking, subversive books like Dharma Punx and Against the Stream have earned him an avid following among the young and disaffected. Now he can add a subset of Buddhists who, like Noah, are in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. A fan of the Twelve Step program but not… Read More Refuge Recovery: Tricycle Interview with Noah Levine
People’s Climate March
An estimated 700 Buddhists marched together in last week’s demonstration. Joshua Eaton “I know that my path to enlightenment will only come from being connected to the world around me,” Njeri Matheu, a member of Brooklyn Zen Center, explained as she marched through the streets of midtown Manhattan. “It’s not just about being centered inside; it’s… Read More People’s Climate March
Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People’s Climate March
Posted by: Kritee Posted date: September 26, 2014 In: Art, Articles, Dhamma, Eco Justice, Environment, Interfaith, International, Science, Take Action | comment : 2 For many years, the two preoccupations of my life, “meditation practice” and “environmental science”, were two streams that ran parallel to each other. The streams likely fed each other in underground unconscious ways but the two never interacted at the surface. The underlying notion was: if we… Read More Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People’s Climate March
Let’s Get to Buddhanature
Here’s my take on Buddhist cosmology: emptiness? yeah, everything’s empty—so what? Let’s move on to the more difficult question of how to understand that the universe, or the nature of reality, is wisdom and compassion, or love. Here’s my teacher, Dzogchen Ponlop, teaching on buddhanature much better than I can. COMPASSION, LOVE & BUDDHA NATURE… Read More Let’s Get to Buddhanature
Gabor Maté: What Is Addiction?
Review: Refuge Recovery Is a Gem
I’m only a third of the way through reading Noah Levine’s Refuge Recovery (2014 Harper Collins) but I’m already deeply impressed with his take on how to apply Buddhist principles and practices to recover from addiction. I have read nearly every book that’s been published on the subject of combining Buddhism and the 12 Steps or… Read More Review: Refuge Recovery Is a Gem
