Dharma Podcasts Maia Duerr: Socially Engaged Dharma: Roots and Shoots Episode Description: Maia Duerr begins her talk by describing how she relates to the tempestuous headlines we often see, and acknowledges her anger, grief, panic, and anxiety. She urges us to sit with those feelings, and we take a moment of silence for the people of… Read More Maia Duerr: Socially Engaged Dharma: Roots and Shoots
Julie Nelson’s argument that corporations are ‘just people’ who could be convinced to steer the corporation towards ‘conscious capitalism’ (Tricycle, March 10, 2017) is specious and without empirical evidence. In fact, most academic studies of corporate ethics show that while individual CEOs and board members warm to the idea of the ethical corporation, it is rarely… Read More Stop Feeding the Dinosaurs
Eastern philosophy influences human rights advocacy by Sunil Babu Pant May 25, 2017 at 3:00 pm EDT Sunil Babu Pant is the founder of the Blue Diamond Society, a Nepalese LGBTIQ organization. He is also the first openly gay member of the Nepalese Parliament who served from 2008-2012. originally published at The Washington Blade [editor: Note… Read More A Nepalese View of Western Activism
Zen and the Art of Social Movement Maintenance JAMES K ROWE 27 March 2015 This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Activists meditating in Zuccotti Park during Occupy. Credit: Waging Nonviolence/Karsten Braaten. Angela Davis, revolutionary activist and philosopher, is a committed yogi. She began practicing in prison when a doctor working with the Black Panther… Read More What’s Mindfulness Got To Do With It?
editor: The following are two articles on the life and work of Damcho Dyson, formerly a Tibetan nun who “disrobed” as a monastic and then years later “robed” once again as a latex fetish queen. There has been some discussion about BDSM, fetish and Buddhist practice, but very cautionary and ‘hush-hush.’ Brad Warner, founder of Hardcore… Read More Fetish, BDSM and Awakening
How does spirituality connect to social change? [editor: This is the second article on non-dualism] MICHAEL EDWARDS 22 May 2017 originally published at opendemocracy.net/transformation Credit: © Nevit Dilmen. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Three months before his death from pancreatic cancer in 1994, the British playwright Dennis Potter was interviewed for the BBC… Read More The mysticism of wide open eyes
The next two posts explore non-dualism from Hindu and Buddhist perspectives. The first is by Jody Radzik, whose slideshare “The Folk Theory of Nondual Enlightenment” looks at both Buddhist/Theravada concepts of ‘non-self’ and Hindu/Mahayana concepts of non-dualism and Advaita Vedanta. Jody reveals with brilliant simplicity the underlying assumptions of each, and why they ultimately fall short as… Read More Folk Theory of Non-Dual Awareness
