We the marginalized shunyata—the historical, political or ecclesial “nothing”—we who are an “inconsistent multiplicity” that is not countable as the “one” or the binary “other”, we are the excluded shunyata that explodes as the revolutionary “event”, the event which redefines everything in the situation that has gone before. We the Untouchable, the gender queer, the “of colour”,… Read More The Event: Revolutionary Explosion of the Excluded [Shunyata]

SPOILER ALERT:  In scientific terms, there’s no such thing as nothing or even emptiness as an absolute condition. This discussion explores the outer limits of “nothing” and its various historical and scientific definitions, from ‘absolute nothing’ to relative forms of ‘nothing’ that have various structures, forces, and characteristics. They discuss, In particular, the quantum vacuum that causes the expansion… Read More NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness

Memory is short when it comes to your futurity [1]. Imagination is productive when it comes to your futurity, to your innocence. originally published at https://unsettlingasexistence.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/white-futurity-with-bloody-hands-on-stolen-land/ by Trycia Bazinet Given who I am, I will only speak of white settlers. This is not to contribute to the erasure, but many discussions about non-whites folks on Turtle… Read More (White) Settler Futurity with Bloody Hands on Stolen Land

It has taken me nearly 25 years of continuous recovery, study of yoga, meditation and various forms of spirituality to understand that there is a deep and subtle form of addiction that perhaps underlies every other addiction and is experienced by practically everyone. While in active addiction it is practically impossible to notice it.  Now… Read More Tommy Rosen: The Next Thing Addiction

The Facebook Group, Sangha in the Streets (SITS) posted the following article. By posting this here, I’m not saying that I agree with it’s position. I’m posting it because it offers a different way of conceptualizing the racist tactics of the Trump campaign and how they are used to exploit white voters as well as terrorize Black… Read More How empathy, not protest, can defeat Trump and right-wing extremism

Tweeted from ATS: With all that’s happening in our country and around the world, the need to strengthen our capacity for empathy is more essential than ever. A recent study from the University of Sussex in the UK found that a simple loving-kindness meditation, also called metta meditation, could have a profound impact on perception and racial bias, while… Read More Is Meditation the Key to Reducing Racial Bias?

From Buddha Event Forum http://buddhaevent.boards.net/thread/8/second-iteration-faithful-buddhist I am sorry to report that Tom Pepper’s latest revival of The Faithful Buddhist has apparently ended. Tom indicated in comments posted there August 28 that the demise of the site was imminent. When Tom resumed posting in January 2015 he projected a series of 11 installments. Four were posted.… Read More Tom Pepper on Dependent Origination