I’ve done several posts over the last three months explaining what I know to be true about buddhadharma: that we already have buddhanature, and that enlightenment is not an extraordinary experience, but nothing other than our ordinary minds. I wrote about this on June 30: If you spend your life in spiritual practice so that… Read More The Audacity of Enlightenment
Today’s feature article in Tricycle by John Snelling states a truth that I discovered for myself just recently: “At the center of these [issues] lies the popular myth that prefigures enlightenment as an ecstatic experience that at once solves all personal problems and inaugurates an individual millennium of limitless personal “growth.” The rub of course… Read More Enlightenment On Your Own Two Feet
WE COULD STOP PUTTING LIDS ON OURSELVES It is as if we were extraordinary children, possessing all sorts of genius, and we were being undermined by the society around us, which was dying to make us normal people. Whenever we would show any mark of genius, our parents would get embarrassed and try to put… Read More Take the Buddhists Bowling
By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Truthout | Op-Ed Thursday, 14 August 2014 As preparations intensify for the People’s Climate March, due to take place in New York City on September 21, it is necessary to remember that a mere change in technologies will not suffice to avert global disaster. What is equally essential is to facilitate the… Read More Moving to a Culture of Life: People’s Climate March
My downstairs neighbour knocked on my door at 9:30 in the morning. He wanted to let me know that he heard me play my harmonium at 9 AM. The sound went into his living room, he said, and he likes to sleep in on Sunday mornings. I said ok, but I had been told by… Read More Your Harmonium is so Irritating!
[Editor: I removed this story from Deep Green Resistance because I have since found out that Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has an expressed and active policy of excluding, vilifying and verbally abusing transgender and transsexual people. They are blatantly transphobic and make no apologies for doing so. One of the original authors of the book Deep… Read More Deep Green Resistance: Vehemently Transphobic
NYC-area Trans*buddhists and allies, We thought you might be interested in this new group. Sorry for the short notice! This is the second sit of the newly-formed NYI LGBTQ sangha, which meets the 2nd Monday of every month at 7pm at New York Insight. TONIGHT Paul Sireci will be leading the Insight OUT Refuge LGBTQ meditation group and… Read More New York Insight’s New LGBTQ Sangha
