Ok, so we’ve now gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. So now you can use mindfulness to pretend to be an NBA rock star like Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant. American Buddhism par excellence. What’s going on here? Did Tricycle just suddenly jump on the corporate Buddhism bandwagon? Or maybe the article on “white trash… Read More Mindfulness, NBA Style
Fleet Maull: Service as Path
Power and Pedagogy by Richard K. Payne from Critical Reflections on Buddhist Thought: Contemporary and Classical ” It seems to me that the advice of the Buddha was not to change how you think about things so that you’re happy and content with them as they are, but rather to see things as they are.” by the… Read More Mindfulness and the Institutional Abuse of Power
“We would do better to understand and de-structure these corporations. My main concern is social structure that is unjust and violent. Corporations are the biggest and most powerful examples. Most churches, and even the Buddhist Sangha, also have structures that are violent. We cannot ignore that issue. We may talk of “the future of Buddhism”,… Read More Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa: Tackle Social Structures
Bishop Desmond Tutu calls for end to fossil fuel era.
” I think today, more and more, love is emerging as something dangerous and subversive. Think about how you are addressed in your everyday life by society, what society demands of you. It’s basically a kind of slightly spiritual, pseudo-Buddhist hedonism. Ideology is telling you: “be faithful to yourself”, “realize your true potential”, “experiment with… Read More Slavoj Žižek: Love as Subversive Politics
