The Well-Being Society. Well-being. It came to me today that what I’ve been taught all my life, and what everyone is taught, is that the goal of life is wealth and success. Wealth is money, lots of it, and success is achieving a high social status, power, fame or professional position. To have both is… Read More The Eight-fold Path to the Well-Being Society
from Unsettling America Posted on January 24, 2016 David Pritchett explores how we can ‘read’ the cultural landscape and become more educated about the ‘invisible structures’ that exclude people from the land and from the wider permaculture movement. “I am a settler in this land, too,” Randy says. We are sitting in a talking circle on the… Read More Settlers in the Land: Decolonising Permaculture
This email newsletter from BCAN confirms what I had reported in early December: it was Venerable Rathana Thera who presented the Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change at Paris COP 21. Venerable Rathana Thera hands over the Buddhist Climate Statement to French President Hollande at COP21. Report of Buddhist Climate Statement Presented at COP21 Paris “This is not… Read More Venerable Rathana Thera Presents Buddhist Declartion on Climate Change at COP 21
MARINA SITRIN 16 December 2013 New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life. Protestors in the Puerta de Sol, Madrid. Credit: Wikipedia/Carlos Delgado. All rights reserved. “The greatest problem we have is that we can’t imagine any alternative. And that is the challenge: to invent, create and think… Read More Postcards from a horizontal world
The evolution of evolution is the capacity to choose, consciously choose, how we will evolve. Up till now, all evolution has been pre-conscious. Even cultural evolution was limited by instinct and environmental conditions, but it was the beginning of a more conscious evolution. The evolution of evolution is a conscious choice about how we will evolve, what… Read More Pratityasamutpada: the evolution of evolution
Is that all we want from Buddhism—a nice middle-class life with a nice spirituality to go with it? Do we really quest for something more, something “beyond”? This life, this “reality”, the knowledge and experience of which is limited by our perceptions, is ‘like a dream”; and what we are to “wake up to” is… Read More What the World Needs Now: Jnanavaca on Buddhism in the modern world.
Tonight, I saw a dance, the Mocean dance company. The dance is a continuous flow. There is no point at which you can say that “I have created this thing, this object: this is it.” And then you sell the object or you get an award for the object. Dance is not like that. It’s… Read More Shunyata: Process, flow
