I finally got to watch this talk by Jnanamitra, given at the first Triratna Gender Diverse Buddhists retreat at Adhisthana in the UK. What a fantastic story! One of the few women to physically transition in the 70s, she was a true pioneer, not only for Triratna, but for trans people in the UK and around the… Read More Jnanamitra: Gender as Embodied Experience
*|FNAME|*, join me TODAY for The Reckoning You can’t change reality but you can meet it. let’s do it together read me online Anger. Confusion. Guilt. Despair TODAY at 4pm pacific / 7pm Eastern Join me for “The Reckoning: How Good People Let Bad Things Happen…and The Truth Needed to Reclaim Connection” a live, unscripted,… Read More The Reckoning w/ Kyodo Williams
Scientist Matthew Lieberman uncovers the neuroscience of human connections—and the broad implications for how we live our lives When we experience social pain — a snub, a cruel word — the feeling is as real as physical pain. That finding is among those in a new book, Social, and it is part of scientist Matthew… Read More Social: Why We Are Wired to Connect
I’m excited about a great new book that’s just out in 2016: Edwin Ng’s Buddhism and Cultural Studies: A Profession of Faith. This is a critical contribution to Buddhist social theory and post-modern Buddhism, a very important and necessary work. Next on my “to read” list. [NOTE: for those of you who have access to… Read More Foucault, Derrida and Buddhism
Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings Inaugurated on 30 June, Duterte had been elected on a promise to rid the south-east Asian nation of drugs and crime within six months of taking office. Exclusive: Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one… Read More Philippines Secret Death Squads
Wu Zetian, the woman who was to become China’s only female Emperor Regent was born in 624 AD, during the Tang Dynasty. The daughter of a government official, she entered the Palace Court as a concubine at age 14 and began a lifelong mission to become Empress Dowager. In 690 AD, she became Emperor Regent, ruling in her… Read More Wu Zetian: Buddhist Empress of China
North Dakota is just the beginning. Jack Jenkins Senior Religion Reporter at ThinkProgress. Demonstrators in Canon Ball protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. CREDIT: Flickr/Joe Brusky When Pua Case landed in North Dakota to join the ongoing Standing Rock protests in September, she, like thousands of other participants, had come to defend the land. Masses of indigenous people and… Read More The growing indigenous spiritual movement that could save the planet
