Buddhist Geeks presents a forum on DIY approaches to Buddhism. DIY has a long history in Buddhism, going back to the Buddha himself. In today’s world are you even more on your own? When you have the teachings of every tradition at your finger tips, how do you choose what to practice? Do you follow a… Read More DIY Buddhism: What’s New Now?

JUSTIN CAMPBELL AT THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS INTERVIEWS MICAH WHITE. WHEN A FRIEND PULLED A COPY OF ADBUSTERS out of a black plastic bag and showed it to me, I felt like what we were doing was wrong. We were sitting in the parking lot of our small Christian high school. For a black kid… Read More Micah White: Occupy and the End of Protest Movements

Few global trends have been as controversial as climate change and the Earth’s warming. The Earth has gone through many shifts in cooling and warming driven by natural factors like the sun’s energy or variations in its orbit, but the trend scientists have seen over the past 50 years is unmistakable. Let’s take a closer… Read More TEN CLEAR INDICATORS OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING

SOS is seen written on a truck at a flooded area in Chile, where heavy rainfall in the usually arid north has been attributed to climate change. (Reuters/Ivan Alvarado) First of all, a huge congratulations to all the graduates—and to the parents who raised you, and the teachers who guided you. It’s a true privilege to… Read More Naomi Klein: Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together

This Dharma talk explores collective dislocation, naming colonial devastation and the movement towards tenderness. One of the resources from the Eco-Sattva Training course. http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/178/talk/27138/ Thanissara, a practitioner since 1975, was a Theravada nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally the last 20 years. She is co-founder and director of Dharmagiri Hermitage… Read More Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred in Form

  Posted on October 8, 2015 by 1earthsangha In this final of our three-part series of posts based on the essay “A Call for Meditation in Action on Climate Change”, Acharya Marty Janowitz discusses how sacred activism provides a foundation for responding to chaos, suffering, and violence. Find the first two of the three-part series here. We aspire that our… Read More Marty Janowitz: Sacred Activism – Basic Goodness in Action

Marisela B. Gomez, MD, PhD, community activist and author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore. Blogs at http://www.mariselabgomez.com Originally posted in Huffington Post: 09/10/2015 12:48 pm EDT  Updated: 09/10/2015 2:59 pm EDT  In early September, a huge delegation of the Buddhist teacher and author Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s monks and nuns will arrive in New York… Read More Marisela B. Gomez, MD: Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice