Thich Nhat Hanh: we must look beyond our seperate selves to save Mother Earth from climate change. Photograph: AP Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s leading spiritual teachers, is a man at great peace even as he predicts the possible collapse of civilisation within 100 years as a result of runaway climate change.… Read More Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us from Climate Change
“In accord with clinical theories that emphasize the self-deceptive nature of narcissistic self-regulation (e.g., Kohut, 1977) we assume that the relevant mechanism is repression. That is, we think that the avoidance strategy is applied automatically and that the person is not aware he or she is defending against threatening stimuli by avoiding them. This is in contrast to… Read More Get F’n Real Pt. 2: the Neurosis of the Normal
Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche http://www.nyingma.com/dzogchen1.htm The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit. We should realise openness as the playground of our emotions and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy. We should experience everything totally, never… Read More Dilgo Khyentse: Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life
Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson by Cristina Moon I’m sitting in my home in Oakland, California, meditating as police helicopters fly overhead. I am not at the protests demanding justice for Mike Brown, even though I live only a few minutes from where they are taking place. I am sitting because I want badly to… Read More Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson
Open Culture sent me a nice little package today of videos from the Zen Beatnik 50s and the Warhol Pop 60s. The first set portrays the Zen consciousness of Alan Watts in four animation videos. Tagged on to that is a collection of videos of another favourite icon of mine: Nico, the famous-for-15-minutes German model from Andy Warhol’s… Read More Alan Watts & Nico
Listening to John Peackock, “Buddhism before the Theravada” http://www.audiodharma.org/series/207/talk/2602/ John Peacock is a Buddhologist, linguistic expert in the ancient languages of India and Tibet and expert translator of the early Buddhist cannon; ordained monk practicing in both Theravadan and Tibetan traditions; teacher of the dharma. John Peacock’s teachings “Buddhism before the Theravada” are taken from… Read More Keepin’ it Real: Awakenings of the Past 24 Hours
Tricycle promo: Now playing: Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance (November 17–30) “Does Western Buddhism encourage its adherents to serenely ignore their participation in the capitalist machine? So says prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whose pointed critique was inspired by this documentary. Featuring commentary from speakers as diverse as Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dzongzar Khyentse Rinpoche and economist Arnoud Boot, Sandcastles breaks open the… Read More Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance
