I am a Black African Queen with four arms and three eyes with a thousand snakes that coil from the top of my crown chakra my upper left hand holds the key to the shackles of slavery my lower left hand holds the book of my testimony my upper right hand holds a bell that… Read More The Tantra of Vimilasara
By Jane Brunette [Editor: We welcome author Jane Brunette, a teacher of Buddhism and Indigenous spirituality, to Engage!. Please visit her site at http://flamingseed.com] HOW DOES SPIRITUAL PRACTICE leave the meditation cushion and truly enter our lives as a collective? The whole point of sitting — listening inside, watching and feeling — is to build a… Read More Taking Meditation Off the Cushion and Into the Endangered Forest
I am continuing my study of the Sutra of the Heart of Transcendent Knowledge and the Prajnaparmita Sutra in 8,000 Lines through reading Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra. I have already read Karl Brunnholzl’s The Heart Attack Sutra and read Andy Carr’s Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner’s Guide to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. The Bodhisattva cannot excuse… Read More Absolute Relativity
What is it that holds the universe together? “There is a vast store of energy which is not centered, which is not ego’s energy at all. It is this energy which is the centerless dance of phenomena, the universe interpenetrating and making love to itself. It has two characteristics: a fire quality of warmth and… Read More Emptiness is Emergence
If I could just get five Buddhists in a room together who gave a shit about something, we could change the world. I could do that easily enough if I went to the Buddhist Peace Fellowship retreat in Oakland, CA in August (2014). But I’m not going because, even if I could afford the $1000… Read More Welcome to Engage! the East Coast Engaged Buddhist Blog
