by Charles Eisenstein Originally posted on Nov 10, 2016, at http://charleseisenstein.net/hategriefandanewstory/ This essay has been translated into German as well as Spanish and French. Normal is coming unhinged. For the last eight years it has been … Continue reading →
Published on Dec 6, 2016 http://democracynow.org – The legendary singer, poet and author Patti Smith performed two songs Monday night at Riverside Church celebrating Democracy Now!’s 20th anniversary. Smith opened … Continue reading →
The EcoDharma Centre, Catalonia, is a retreat and training centre of the Triratna Buddhist Community. This brief documentary explains their view of the tensions and fruits of combining spirituality and … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about defining shunyata, or ’emptiness’ as “the possibility of existence.” The great philosophical and scientific question is, why does anything exist at all? The Buddhist answer is shunyata … Continue reading →
I’m posting this article because it captures many of the arguments on the left for a stateless transition to a post-capitalist society, achieved not through violent revolution, but through ‘interstitial’ social transformation. “Interstitial” I … Continue reading →
In the Winter of Our Discontentby asenauke Nyogen Senzaki was the first Japanese Zen master to live and teach on our shores. Along with one hundred twenty thousand Americans of Japanese ancestry, … Continue reading →
thOur friends over at Open Culture landed another solid jab, this time at the Alt-Righists Run Amok who have taken over the US government. Most of them are at least … Continue reading →
And again. . . we need to be reminded of this every day. A protest against Trump at Union Square on Nov. 9. (WNV/Eric Stoner) What’s next? That is the … Continue reading →
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