I’m having some fun as a new guest editor over at Non-Buddhist. This recent post by Patrick Jennings, “Another Stab at the Non“, provoked some discussion, which led to my new take on the “emptiness” conundrum: Nontology. Nontology: No presumption is made about the existence or non-existence of anything. ‘Ontology’ presumes the existence of something;… Read More Post-Buddhism: Nontology
All the study and reflection I have done in early Buddhism and the recent study I’ve done in the Mahayana broke through to a new level of understanding. What was the Buddha pointing to? Where do we find awakening? Nikaya dharma, the early Pali canon, is all about the “human experience”. The Nikaya is about the specific,… Read More Post-Buddhism: Nikaya and Mahayana Contrasts in Dharma
Editor: The following post is an attempt to sketch out a post-modern use of the dharma that is not religious, or even “spiritual.”( It’s a rough sketch, so expect lots of edits over the next few weeks.) Personally, I use the dharma as both a heuristic device and as a humanist spirituality. But the purpose of my post… Read More Post-Buddhism: Dharma as a Heuristic Device
[Editor: the author’s name is not listed on the original web post] DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR: THE BASICS OF A GENUINE ANTI-COLONIAL POSITION The purpose of this short article is to put to the pen a number of thoughts that have been working themselves out in my head recently about the default eurocentrism of… Read More Decolonization is not a Metaphor: Basics of a Genuine Anti-Colonial Position
Ok, let’s take on what might be considered a legitimate critique: isn’t Post-Buddhism (as I’ve described it so far) just “Hipster Buddhism”? Well folks, Hipsterism is a style, a fashion identity, a pattern of conspicuous consumption. So here’s why post-Buddhism isn’t “hipster Buddhism”: Post-Buddhism involves no conspicuous consumption that identifies me as a hipster or a Buddhist or… Read More Post-Buddhism: Hipster Buddhism?
By ROBERT BEREZIN, MD April 5, 2016 Originally Published in Mad in America “Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.”– Dread Pirate Roberts, in “The Princess Bride” Everywhere you turn, you see “OCD, ASD, MDD, ADD, ADHD, BPD, GAD, PD, SAD, PTSD, NPD,” etc. The problem is not limited to this acronym… Read More Psychiatric Diagnosis is a Fraud: The Destructive and Damaging Fiction of Biological ‘Diseases’
Post-Buddhism needs some new sutras to illuminate the experience of the dharma in the 21st century. When I want to awaken with a start to the truths of my sensory experience, deconstruct my mental environment, feel the sharp political edges of my everyday life, I read Adbusters. I sometimes wish all the brilliant X-Post-Non-Un Buddhists would get together… Read More Post-Buddhism: The Adbusters Sutra
