Ok, so we’ve now gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. So now you can use mindfulness to pretend to be an NBA rock star like Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant. American Buddhism par excellence. What’s going on here? Did Tricycle just suddenly jump on the corporate Buddhism bandwagon? Or maybe the article on “white trash… Read More Mindfulness, NBA Style
on her baby’s future impacted by climate change.
Power and Pedagogy by Richard K. Payne from Critical Reflections on Buddhist Thought: Contemporary and Classical ” It seems to me that the advice of the Buddha was not to change how you think about things so that you’re happy and content with them as they are, but rather to see things as they are.” by the… Read More Mindfulness and the Institutional Abuse of Power
Climate Action Camp: Training for strategic community-led creative resistance Join us for a training camp on how to take direct action against environmental degradation and climate chaos. Led by a team of Greenpeace trainers and local organizers, the camp will offer both a basic and advanced training on non-violent direct action, campaign strategy, and creative… Read More Let the Revolution Begin: Climate Action Camp NS
Most of my fellow enviro guerrillas went to the People’s March for Climate Justice in New York City on Sept. 21. I could have been on the bus with them, but I decided to stay local. Not that I had any problem with 300,000 people going on a bus or carpooling to New York to… Read More A Short March by One Person in a Small Town for Climate Justice
Posted by: Kritee Posted date: September 26, 2014 In: Art, Articles, Dhamma, Eco Justice, Environment, Interfaith, International, Science, Take Action | comment : 2 For many years, the two preoccupations of my life, “meditation practice” and “environmental science”, were two streams that ran parallel to each other. The streams likely fed each other in underground unconscious ways but the two never interacted at the surface. The underlying notion was: if we… Read More Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People’s Climate March
