Three friends held our first Queer Dharma Circle on Winter Solstice at Bird Hill Farm in Ware, Massachusetts. Vance, my friend and owner of the farm, my partner Vicky, and myself gathered for meditation and heart-sharing in front of a wood stove. Our Circle brings together Buddhist dharma, meditation and Radical Faerie spirituality. We are… Read More Queer Dharma Circle, Solstice 2016
This letter by Adebayo Akomolafe on whiteness and colonization is so richly complex that it shifts our fixed ideas about every category of race. And it contains within it a profound teaching on ‘dependent co-arising’: For Yoruba people, the world isn’t populated by independent ‘things’, moving by their own internal logic or dynamism. The world is a… Read More An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
December 20, 2016 Thanissara originally published at her blog. So, there it is. A total wipe out. For now, let’s stop battling and shoring up strategies. Instead of floundering around for certainties, for pockets of hope, let’s accept the invitation into something else. That is, a profound stripping away. The world that was, that we knew, that… Read More The Descent
Atman: Brahman (cosmic unity of all things) in personal form as the Supreme Self, as the Original and Originating Soul or Self; the Singular Cause of that exists (aka ‘creator-god’). Anatman: there is no Original or Supreme Self or Singular Cause; there is multiple causality Saying “there is no self” is the same thing as saying… Read More Self: Honour, Heal, Transcend
If the response of the corporate state is repression rather than reform then our strategy and our tactics must be different. We will have to cease our appealing to the system. We will have to view the state, including the Democratic Party, as antagonistic to genuine reform. We will have to speak in the language… Read More Chris Hedges: The Coming Climate Revolt
…”We stood at the turning point.” As we now face the takeover of America by a fascist regime, I am strongly reminded of the words of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous which are read at many 12 Step meetings in North America. It echoes the sense of resolve that we must have to stop the… Read More Half-Measures Availed Us Nothing
TransBuddhists are honouring the life and passing of Nizah Morris, an African American Trans Buddhist who was killed in police custody. Her case is still being covered up until this day, but there’s movement: http://www.epgn.com/news/local/11400-state-news-media-association-files-brief-in-morris-case Remembering Nizah Morris (1955 – December 24, 2002) by transbuddhists Nizah Morris (1955-2002) was one of the United States’ leading African American transgender Buddhists.… Read More Honouring Nizah Morris: Pioneering Black Trans Buddhist
