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Elevate the Vote with Meditation Flash Mobs

[Editor: An interesting response to the tension of the US election.} Join us as we Elevate the Vote Tomorrow, 11/8, Aryaloka sangha members will be participating in Elevate the Vote’s … Continue reading

2016/11/07 · Leave a comment

Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis at Reading Prison

originally posted at Open Culture: Just last month, the U.K. announced the so-called “Turing Law,” a policy U.K.’s justice minister Sam Gyimah describes as pardoning “people convicted of historical sexual offenses who … Continue reading

2016/11/07 · Leave a comment

Open Interfaith Letter on Standing Rock

https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/greenfaith/donation.jsp?campaign=58 Click Here to Sign   To:  LORETTA LYNCH, ATTORNEY GENERAL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE JACK DALRYMPLE, GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA KELCY WARREN, CEO AND BOARD CHAIR, ENERGY TRANSFER … Continue reading

2016/11/03 · Leave a comment

Bhikhu Bodhi’s Simple Steps for Climate Change

In the last One Earth Sangha online training (Oct. 2016), Bhiku Bodhi presented the global picture of climate change and how Buddhists can take action at every level, from personal … Continue reading

2016/10/31 · Leave a comment

Lama Rod Owens: The Work of Diversity: Getting Messy, Getting Uncomfortable

[Editor: The following interview with Lama Rod Owen was published in Insight Journal, a monthly publication  of the Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts. There is no author … Continue reading

2016/10/30 · Leave a comment

Brief Review of Time To Stand Up

Time To Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth by Thanissara. (2015, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley California). I read this book with great anticipation that it might hold … Continue reading

2016/10/29 · Leave a comment

Wild Buffalo Stampede at Standing Rock

Thousands of Wild Buffalo Appear Out of Nowhere at Standing Rock (VIDEO) originally published at US Uncut Tom CahillOctober 28, 2016 Native Americans attempting to stop a pipeline from being … Continue reading

2016/10/28 · Leave a comment

Stern Report 2: Renewables are the Only Path Forward

10 years on from the Stern report: a low-carbon future is the ‘only one available’ Economist says green development is the only route to global economic growth and points to … Continue reading

2016/10/28 · Leave a comment

141 Water Protectors Arrested At Standing Rock

141 Water Protectors Arrested as Police Escalate Violent Militarized Response Ladonna Allard SacredStoneCamp.org On Saturday, hundreds of water protectors from different nations were met with violence by militarized police in riot … Continue reading

2016/10/27 · Leave a comment

Non-Self as Non-Emptiness

In the vein of Non-Buddhism, I am proposing another interpretation of the traditional doctrine of “emptiness” as non-emptiness. Non-emptiness means that entities (systems) are composed of elements and defined by their … Continue reading

2016/10/27 · Leave a comment

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