Buddhism Was Only for Rich People—Until Now Dear David Chapman: I’ve read several posts in your series (“We Matter to Buddhism“) and you’re missing the fact that Boomer Buddhism is also Upper Class Buddhism, the purview of people who make over $60,000 US a year. Gen X’rs and Millenials are much poorer. A large pecentage… Read More Buddhism is Dead; Long Live Buddhism
I’ve decided to write a sci-fi thriller flick called ‘The Void’. It’s a spoof of Buddhist debates on emptiness, featuring a bunch of clueless Buddhist astronauts on an orphaned spaceship that’s literally ‘Lost in Space’ (one of my favourite 60s family sitcoms), going nowhere. It will be loosely based on the book by that name… Read More Buddhist Futures: The Void
[Note: this article was pubished at Integral Life as a section of a longer article on civil society responses to Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. It’s a synopsis of Ken Wilbur’s theory of social groups that is quite interesting and useful. It mirrors the social theory Niklaus Luhmann, a German sociologist whose work… Read More Integral Theory on the Dynamics of Social Groups
How New Yorkers are fighting for food justice Tanya Fields’ Libertad Urban Farm joins a city-wide movement to redistribute resources to poor communities that are systemically deprived of healthy food Edward HelmoreMonday 12 June 2017 07.00 EDT originally posted at Guardian UK ‘We didn’t call it food justice before – we called it survival’: Tanya Fields… Read More One community garden at a time
I have turned to the work of Chris Grosso, aka the Indie Spiritualist, for some fresh inspiration. Chris blends several traditions and practices in a way that works for him. His ‘indie spiritualist’ practice seems to be a blend of Buddhist, yoga, non-dualist and 12 Step traditions. I find this interesting because I also have… Read More Let’s Get Personal for a Moment
Why the Fight for Environmental Justice Is Also a Fight for Social Justice Nityanand Jayaraman 05/06/2017 originally posted at The Wire Let this World Environment Day be the day you take a decision to dedicate your life to ensuring that your children have a better life than you have had. Credit: sarangib/pixabay On June 5 – World… Read More Beyond Bicycles: Ecology as Social Justice
Two articles: the first on David Lynch’s TM charity in Washington, DC and the second on Ivanka Trump’s twice daily meditation practice, originally posted at Ivanka Trump’s Team blog. So let’s stop pretending that meditation is a measure of anything, of your ethics or values, of your standing as a “good person” or a person of… Read More Yes Even the Trump Family Meditates
