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Do Bodhisattvas get Angry?

Do Bodhisattvas get Angry? A Response to the Killing of Eric Garner. Via Rev. M. Jamil Scotton Dec 5, 2014 As the devastating news of the lack of justice in … Continue reading

2014/12/07 · Leave a comment

Mindfulness’ “truthiness” problem: the ‘Science’ of Mindfulness

SATURDAY, DEC 6, 2014 11:45 AM AST Sam Harris wants practitioners out of religion business. But the supposed science behind it is its own mythology RONALD PURSER AND ANDREW COOPER Stephen Colbert, … Continue reading

2014/12/07 · Leave a comment

Towards a Buddhist Sociology: The Power of Collective Projections

After reading much Buddhist text, I realize that what Buddhism teaches is to deconstruct the power of projection. “Our worlds” are a projection of our minds; tantric connection with a … Continue reading

2014/12/06 · 1 Comment

Thay: In Love with the Earth

  Posted on August 1, 2014 by 1earthsangha To transform our relationship with the Earth, we need to begin from a place of love, writes Zen master, poet, and peace and human rights … Continue reading

2014/12/04 · Leave a comment

Sit 350 in Boston Protests Rising Carbon Levels

[Editor: The Buddhist response to climate change also has to include reducing the impact of Buddhism on the climate. Namely, practitioners can stop flying by air, chasing gurus around the globe, … Continue reading

2014/12/04 · 1 Comment

A Lone Buddhist Manifesto

As a trans-queer Buddhist, I find that I must walk the path of the outcaste, the radical faerie, the siddha. I practice on the fringes of sangha, always on the margins, … Continue reading

2014/11/24 · Leave a comment

Stephen Lewis: Harper’s Nixonian Regime

Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government: Tim Harper Canada and its politics, the former Ontario NDP leader says, are in free fall. MIKE CASSESE / … Continue reading

2014/11/24 · Leave a comment

Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance

Tricycle promo: Now playing: Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance (November 17–30) “Does Western Buddhism encourage its adherents to serenely ignore their participation in the capitalist machine? So says prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whose … Continue reading

2014/11/22 · Leave a comment

Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins

Let’s look to one of the saints of the 20th Century — Mahatma Gandhi. On October 22, 1925, Gandhi published a list he called the Seven Social Sins in his … Continue reading

2014/11/20 · 3 Comments

Equanimity

2014/11/19 · Leave a comment

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