Enjoy this beautiful doha based on a poem by 13th century female mystic Hadewijch of Antwerp. In this doha, Hadewijch speaks of being a slave of love. I do not know the identity of the ‘She’ that has subjugated her. The 13th century female mystic Hadewijch of Antwerp wrote of being the slave of love. This… Read More Everything is Lost in Love
Members of the Compassionate Karachi Team are working to gather 1,000,000 signatures for compassion. Living a truly ethical life in which we look to putting the needs of others first, and providing for their happiness, has tremendous implications for our society. If we change internally—disarm ourselves by cutting to the root of our negative emotions—we… Read More Compassion Can Change the World
A new music video featuring the music of Kinnie Starr has stop-motion wood carved characters confronting Prime Minister Stephen Harper, depicted on a super tanker travelling around Haida Gwaii. Haida Raid 3: Save Our Waters was released this week, in response to the December 2013 recommended approval of the controversial EnbridgeNorthern Gateway. The video is a collaboration of activism and culture, produced… Read More Haida Raid 3: Save Our Waters Animation
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
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
Spoken word, written and recorded by Laura Burke.
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
