Registration is now open. First session on October 16. View this email in your browser Update on the EcoSattva Training Dear Community, We are reaching out today to give you a few updates on this fall’s EcoSattva Training. Whether you participated last year or this is your first time, we hope you’ll join us. Registration… Read More EcoSattva Training with Bikhu Bodhi
This essay by George Lakoff is on the unconscious metaphors that shape political viewpoints. It would be interesting to conduct the same analysis of Buddhist metaphors and how they affect political thinking and action. Metaphor, Morality, and Politics Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust by George Lakoff © copyright George Lakoff 1995 http://www.wwcd.org/issues/Lakoff.html… Read More George Lakoff: Moral Metaphors
http://www.compassionateactivism.com/webinars In this webinar, Sandra Kim shares the most critical aspect of the Compassionate Activism model that teaches how to respond to everyday oppression with love and justice. You learn: The ways systemic oppression has taught us to deny and suppress our feelings and pain How to give our experiences as marginalized people the acknowledgement… Read More Sandra Kim: Compassionate Activism
Wow! that was quick. I already have the new revamped site up and running and I have forums running too. Let’s get interactive. I hope the forums will be a place where we can share our interests, passion, knowledge and experience with engaged Buddhism: politics and culture, social justice, spirituality and ecology, or whatever interests… Read More New! Interactive Forums at Engage!
Three months ago I put up a short post about upcoming changes at Engage! At that time, my plan was to close The Harbinger blog and combine it with Engage. I considered renaming the combined blog, or what might emerge from this new combination. Well, have I got news for you. The change that is about… Read More Engage Evolves: Upcoming Changes
Dear Readers of Engage! I apologize for the sudden pile up of posts today. I have been recovering from major surgery, which I had two weeks ago. I haven’t been lugging around my laptop and getting stuff done they way I usually do. I’ve also been reading and writing a fair amount of my own… Read More Dear Readers: It’s OK, I’m fine
by Jim Hartz “As neoliberal guru Milton Friedman put it in his Capitalism and Freedom, because profit-making is the essence of democracy, any government that pursues antimarket policies is being antidemocratic, no matter how much informed popular support they might enjoy.”–Robert W. McChesney, Introduction to Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, p.… Read More TYRANNOSAURUS DEMOCRATICUS
