[I am posting this article by economist Kate Raworth as a counter-argument to Julie Nelson’s article, and as a realizable set of solutions to our ecological and economic conditions.] Kate Raworth is a senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Her new book… Read More Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist

[Editor, Shaun Bartone. Note: my original writing is in italics] This article is a response to an article by Julie Nelson “Are Corporations Anti-Dharma?” that has been published in Tricycle and One earth Sangha websites. Nelson is a neoliberal economist and Zen Buddhist who believes it is possible to change corporations by “changing hearts,” seeing them as run by… Read More Can Mindfulness Change a Corporation?

When I first walked into a Buddhist shrine room and sat on one of those squishy cushions, I looked around the room and saw lots of people that I thought were like me: mostly white and older than 35. Sitting on the floor together in a shrine room has a way of equalizing the appearance of… Read More The New Brahmins and the Buddhist Precariat

To see the Buddhanature in everyone, you have to see all the ways that people are awake; you have to see all the many ways that people can awaken: psychologically, socially, politically, culturally, spiritually. You can see all the ways people awaken to love, awaken to truth, to ultimate reality. You must see how people develop wisdom and compassion… Read More Not Buddha, Not Dharma

[This article was written by a member of Trans Buddhists (US), and myself, Shaun Bartone. Originally published at TransBuddhists.org] Trans Buddhists Urge Full Affirmation and Support for Trans/GNC Students: A Statement for Compassion and Justice transbuddhists April 3, 2017 Trans Buddhists Urge Full Affirmation and Support for Trans/GNC Students: A Statement for Compassion and Justice… Read More US Supreme Court Signals ‘Open Season’ on Trans Youth

Harvard Buddhist Community’s Third Annual Conference on Buddhism and Race, March 2017; three videos. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842059452675802%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Second Video https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842346985980382%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Third Video https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842386689309745%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Presenters include: rev. angel Kyodo Williams Lama Rod Owens Myokei Caine-Barrett Charles Hallisey Rebecca Li Jan Willis Janet Gyatso Melanie Cherng Kartina Richardson Greg Snyder Betty Burke Ericka Phillips