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?
SATURDAY, DEC 6, 2014 11:45 AM AST Sam Harris wants practitioners out of religion business. But the supposed science behind it is its own mythology RONALD PURSER AND ANDREW COOPER Stephen Colbert, Sam Harris (Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Simon & Schuster/Ray Garcia/Photo montage by Salon) The spike of popular interest in the mindfulness movement, with its enthusiastic endorsements among celebrities,… Read More Mindfulness’ “truthiness” problem: the ‘Science’ of Mindfulness
After reading much Buddhist text, I realize that what Buddhism teaches is to deconstruct the power of projection. “Our worlds” are a projection of our minds; tantric connection with a “deity” is a projection that we both create and destroy. Much of our klesha suffering is the result of our projections onto others and the… Read More Towards a Buddhist Sociology: The Power of Collective Projections
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
[Editor: The Buddhist response to climate change also has to include reducing the impact of Buddhism on the climate. Namely, practitioners can stop flying by air, chasing gurus around the globe, and flying to retreats in distant, exotic locales. Buddhists can give up their relative wealth which they have obtained at the expense of others who live in desperate poverty… Read More Sit 350 in Boston Protests Rising Carbon Levels
In the last 18 months. that I’ve lived in Halifax, my life has felt like it’s in pieces, all over the place. I’m half-way in between everything, between my dissertation and my teaching, between Fredericton and Halifax, between sanghas, between houses, between relationships. And that’s the way it is. Buddhism tells me that life will… Read More Life in Pieces
