Buddhism is not about love. I wish it was—it could be, but it’s not. Love is not the primary focus of Buddhist practice; it’s awakening from delusion. Love is the primary focus of yogis like Baba Ram Das and others in the Bhakti yoga movement, which is why I have been drawn to it over… Read More Summer of Love, Reprise
About practice…yeah I still do that thing. I've crossed a couple of practice rubicons recently. Let me share what I've learned: The Energy Flow of Meditation. I was always taught by Buddhist meditation teachers to sit up straight, but with my head tilted down, chin slightly tucked in toward the chest. After ten years of… Read More Just Sitting?
One of my favorite mantras set to music. My composition, my vocals.
Declaration of Interdependence by a Community Posted on September 15, 2016 by Deirdre The following is a Declaration of Interdependence that could be made by every community of, say between 5000 and 25,000 people. Since there are over 4 million people in New Zealand, it could be made by hundreds of different communities. We as… Read More Declaration of Interdependence
Dear Engage Readers: It’s really hard to talk about capitalism in Buddhist circles because its not something you can “feel in your body” like racism or sexism. It’s not a biological trait like skin colour or genitals. It’s an assigned social status, a social class that you are either born into or that you acquire… Read More The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction
Do You Still Feel Capitalism Dying? Joe BrewerJul 24 I am a change strategist working on behalf of humanity, and also a complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for the field of culture design. There is a malaise of loneliness and despair in our broken world. Can you feel capitalism dying around you? There is a… Read More The Pain You Feel is Capitalism Dying
Debbie Bookchin Debbie Bookchin is an author, award-winning journalist and co-editor of The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2014), a collection of essays by Murray Bookchin.originally published at Roar Mag I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years… Read More Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve
