[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, … Continue reading →
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, … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
As a trans-queer Buddhist, I find that I must walk the path of the outcaste, the radical faerie, the siddha. I practice on the fringes of sangha, always on the margins, … Continue reading →
Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government: Tim Harper Canada and its politics, the former Ontario NDP leader says, are in free fall. MIKE CASSESE / … Continue reading →
Tanzania accused of backtracking over sale of Masai’s ancestral land Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the … Continue reading →
Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” By hir wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt. Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, … Continue reading →
Tricycle: How do you account for Buddhist monasticism, at least as you experienced it, as having evolved in such a uninspiring way? Sangharakshita: Initially, the Buddha’s teachings had to be preserved through … Continue reading →
Pope Francis: “Unbridled consumerism” will have destructive consequences for the planet In letter to host of upcoming G-20 summit, the pope decries free market fundamentalism LUKE BRINKER Pope Francis (Credit: AP/Alessandra … Continue reading →