I have seen the future of Buddhism: American Buddhism, neo-liberal Buddhism, Western Buddhism, globalized Buddhism, what have you. It’s the IFC’s new comedy show, The Mirror. Slate is running a story on the new show, and tries to analogize it to The Black Mirror and the Trump regime. But The Mirror is not a take on Trumpism, which is better represented by… Read More Children of The Mirror
I’ve been searching for something I wrote on ‘dukkha’ as ‘unsatisfactoriness’ and while I haven’t found it yet, I’ve come across other writings which I also ‘lost’ some time ago and gave up looking for—but now I’ve found them. Here’s a comment on ‘yuppie Buddhism’ which I once posted to a Tricycle article. It was so scathing and… Read More Refuge in the Sangha
Non-Self and Spiritual Experience are a Natural Result of Shifting Brain Function It’s my opinion, based on my experience, that an increase in capacity for non-dogmatic spiritual experience is concomitant with a decrease in self-centredness, and that this is a completely natural process, based on brain functioning, that all humans are capable of. I believe… Read More Spirituality is a Whole Brain Phenomenon
A conservative group put UM historian Tobin Miller Shearer on ‘Professor Watchlist.’ To Shearer, the threat sounds awfully familiar. By Tobin Miller Shearer In the weeks since I was put on an academic watchlist, I have thought often about one of the biggest bastards that I know. I only talked to him once and that was… Read More Shearer: American History Prof. on Watchlist
originally published in 2013 by Sarah Jaffe inthesetimes.com Back in 2004, pundits went wild when exit pollsters found that 22 percent of votershad made their selection based on “moral values,” more than any of the options they offered. The pollsters back then almost universally interpreted “moral values” to mean “abortion and gay rights”—a frame backed up… Read More A ‘Buddha On Strike’ at Goldman Sachs
This moment in American history calls me to enter spaces where my people’s shame can arrive with me, charging in on white horses. ENNIFER LENTFER 15 December 2016 Right now I find it’s hard to find words for anything—which is a problem for a Director of Communications. Many progressives like me in my home country of the… Read More Wrestling with my white fragility
We need a moral movement to create change. by Rev. William J. Barber, II 6 hrs ago Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the NAACP and architect of the protests known as “Moral Monday, speaks during a Bible study at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. CREDIT: AP Photo/Gerry Broome On election night I… Read More Rev. Barber: Fusion Politics as a Third Reconstruction
