Buddha & Marx Pt. 2: Dr. Ambedkar’s Marxism
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar undertook a ten year study of Buddhism, primarily of the Pali cannon, but also the Mahayana texts, which formed the basis of his book, The Buddha and … Continue reading
Buddha and Marx Pt. 1: The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism
The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism | Adbusters by Stuart Smithers https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/102/spiritual-crisis-of-capitalism.html also published in Tricycle.com Audio version read by Sloan Garrett – Right-click to download When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist … Continue reading
The Next System
The next system will be ecologically sustainable, powered by renewable energy, based on cooperative enterprise, sharing, interconnectedness, local to global. In the future, no one will have a “job”. The … Continue reading
The Beat that My Heart Skipped
Where to begin? It’s been a magical 24 hours. Last night I nailed it down: I read Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma, Parts III-V on “what the Buddha taught’. … Continue reading
Revisiting Buddhist Anarchism
Posted by: Kenji Liu Posted date: June 05, 2013 In: Dhamma, Economics | comment : 63 http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/revisiting-buddhist-anarchism/ I’ve been revisiting Buddhist anarchism lately, the strain of socially engaged Buddhism that some foundational Buddhist Peace Fellowship movers and shakers were … Continue reading
17th Karmapa Gets Engaged!
“The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe have all arisen interdependently. We cannot survive alone. We cannot eat, wear clothes, or breathe alone. The more … Continue reading
Non-Self as the Revolutionary Praxis of Anonymous
[No Self, Not Self and 18 Forms of Emptiness, Pt. 2] Since Buddhism has arrived in the west in the age of post-modernism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism, it’s time that … Continue reading
David Brazier’s ‘The New Buddhism’
from Wise Attention Posted on Aug 17, 2012 | 1 comment David Brazier discovered Buddhism in the 1960’s and followed it as a personal spiritual quest and an outlet for his … Continue reading
Self, No-Self: Madness and Mindfulness
While one sense of self—self-grasping ignorance—is a troublemaker, stable and realistic self-confidence is necessary to accomplish the path. – The Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron, “The Self-Confidence of a Bodhisattva” … Continue reading
Center for Mindfulness and Justice
On the Secular Buddhist podcast, I listened to a brilliant discussion on engaged Buddhism with Captain Cheri Maple, a dharma teacher in Tich Nhat Hanh’s tradition. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-114-cheri-maples-center/id333093081?i=114178991&mt=2 There are too … Continue reading
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