Post-Buddhism: No Grand Narrative

One non-Buddhist writer (I can’t remember who) described the Buddha as “a pre-modern post-modernist.” Buddha’s method of inquiry was one of relentless deconstruction. His teachings deconstruct experience, physical and mental phenomena, religious doctrine, philosophical propositions, making the Buddha a consummate post-modernist. One of the key features of post-modernism is the assertion that there is no grand narrative that is the authoritative interpretation… Read More Post-Buddhism: No Grand Narrative

2016/05/042016/05/11 Shaun Bartone2 Comments

Racial Bias Warps How We See Faces

Your Brain Warps People’s Faces To Match Stereotypes, New Research Shows CREDIT: Shutterstock/Laurel Raymond Implicit biases are incredibly powerful. Unconscious stereotypes affect how we evaluate who is running for political office, who we promote at work, who we encourage academically, and, perhaps most devastatingly, who we regard and react to as threats. A huge body of research shows that black… Read More Racial Bias Warps How We See Faces

2016/05/04 Shaun BartoneLeave a comment

The Great Feast of Human Wisdom

I received this message of wisdom from Krishna Das today. Krishna Das is a Bhakti Yoga practitioner who also practices and studies Buddhist meditation and dharma. What he shared with us from the poet Rilke is not Buddhism at all, but it is profound wisdom. I am no longer limiting myself to only Buddhist teachings or… Read More The Great Feast of Human Wisdom

2016/05/032016/05/03 Shaun BartoneLeave a comment

Post-Buddhism: No Religion

Buddhists teachers will often say that Buddhism is not a religion. But when you enter a temple or join a sangha, what you are confronted with is something that looks and feels very much like a religion. It’s every bit as dogmatic and oppressive as any religion, plagued by rigid narrow-mindedness, fraught with power trips and… Read More Post-Buddhism: No Religion

2016/05/012016/05/15 Shaun Bartone1 Comment

New Punk Jazz tracks from Roughgarden

Dharma punks do the being-in-the-moment punk-jazz improv. Featuring Emily Davidson on bass, Selwyn Sharples on drums, and Shaun doing spoken word. https://roughgarden.bandcamp.com/track/spray-paint-i-am-curious-orange-buddhafield-physics https://roughgarden.bandcamp.com/track/super-intensity-punk-jazz-improv

2016/05/012016/05/02 Shaun BartoneLeave a comment

Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death

The murder of Xulhaz Mannan and another man have been condemned by the US ambassador Bangladesh police say a top gay rights activist and editor at the country’s only LGBT magazine is one of two people who have been hacked to death. The US ambassador to Bangladesh condemned the killing of Xulhaz Mannan, who also… Read More Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death

2016/04/252016/04/25 Shaun BartoneLeave a comment

TruthDig: Tax Havens Set Up by US State Dept

The Panama Papers: Tax havens in Panama, Liberia and elsewhere were set up by the US State Dept. in the 1960s to launder money from global criminal enterprise, to make the oil and gas industries tax exempt, in order to finance wars and prop up the US dollar. Economist Michael Hudson reports. Read it all… Read More TruthDig: Tax Havens Set Up by US State Dept