Buddhists: Get F’n Real
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Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us
For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall. George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 14 October 2014 19.49 BST ‘Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness is twice as deadly as obesity.’ Photograph: Feri… Read More Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us
Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something
Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so dont get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the rivers, because that means youre too attached. I think one of the problems with Westernized Buddhists is premature equanimity. When the Buddha said dont be… Read More Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something
Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas
[Developing story: I will be expanding on this article over the next little while, eventually to become part of a book on tantric Buddhism as engaged practice.] Danielle Levitt, photographer, shot the photos of the Radical Faeries of NYC. Go to Daniell’s website below to see a video of the faeries he photographed. http://www.daniellelevitt.com/galleries/27-radical_faeries_nyc Definitively… Read More Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas
Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide
The fossil fuel industry knows full well that their product is causing the sickness and death of people everywhere that oil, gas and coal are being mined, shipped and burned. They also know full well that their industry is the leading cause of global environmental destruction and climate change. They know full well that the… Read More Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide
Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste
by Alan Senauke And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. — Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta The Buddhist precepts speak our moral code, flowing from and leading to liberty, equality, and fraternity. The precepts’ instruction regarding… Read More Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste
Josh Korda Goes Against the Stream @Tricycle
This film portrait of Josh Korda is about the only type of American Buddhism that I can get behind, that is genuine, honest, frank, and real. I can only share the link, but it’s worth watching. http://www.tricy.cl/1vZDJTF
