Most Buddhists are taught to think of the Four Noble Truths as four separate doctrines, each one leading to the other in succession. Stephen Batchelor teaches it as “the four tasks”, as four separate tasks, practiced successively or simultaneously in combination as a total path. I have begun to think of the Four Noble Truths… Read More 4 Noble Truths as One Evolutionary Cycle
This talk by Leslie Booker in Worldwide Insight is a rich stew of mindful insights and embodied practices, offering many different kinds of dharma approaches to activism. Leslie has taught yoga and meditation practice to youths in juvenile penal systems and Riker’s Island prison. Leslie looks deeply into her own patterns of anger and reactivity… Read More Leslie Booker: Self-Preservation of Activism
No matter how much brutality there is in the world, we still have the power to do good. We are really powerful people. — Shaun Bartone Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation Image credit: CAC Interns in Action (detail), Juarez Mexico, 2008. CAC Archives. From Being Driven to Being Drawn Thursday, July 6, 2017 When I… Read More Richard Rohr: From Being Driven to Being Drawn
Freedom Cities is an example of autonomous municipalism, creating the kind of communities we want to live in. How Freedom Cities Can Make All People of Color Safer Zenobia Jeffries originally published at Truthout.org Area Muslims and local immigration activists participate in a prayer and rally against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on January 27,… Read More BLM: Freedom Cities
I’m glad that Thay and I are on the same page with this doctrine. From the Lion’s Roar, Jan. 2012 Do you have to believe in reincarnation to be a Buddhist? Reincarnation means there is a soul that goes out of your body and enters another body. That is a very popular, very wrong notion… Read More Thich Nhat Hanh: There is no Rebirth
Slavoj Zizek manages to get the whole message out, without getting lost, in this rather short video (for him): the Left doesn’t have a plan. It’s a very similar message to the second video by Naomi Klein, based on her latest book, No is Not Enough. I haven’t read the book yet, but she ends the video… Read More Resistance is Never Enough
Kamalanandi and Shradasiddhi teach at the second Triratna Gender Diverse Retreat at Adhistana in Coddington, UK, 2017. Kamalanandi teaches on ‘Practicing Ksanti in the face of Adversity.’ Shradasiddhi teaches on ‘The Power of Metta in Transforming Self and World’. ,
