01 Sep 2016: Interview Ecologist Suzanne Simard has shown how trees use a network of soil fungi to communicate their needs and aid neighboring plants. Now she’s warning that threats like clear-cutting and climate change could disrupt these critical networks.  by Diane Toomey Two decades ago, while researching her doctoral thesis, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that… Read More Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other

by Ken Knabb Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejectyou, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you? — Whitman, “Stronger Lessons” In the middle… Read More Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists

Evading the  Transformation of Reality  by Ken Knabb — Engaged Buddhism at an Impasse — “A very popular error: having the courage of your convictions. The point is to have the courage for an attack on your convictions!”—Nietzsche In 1993 I wrote Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists, a leaflet welcoming the emergence of socially engaged Buddhism as a… Read More Engaged Buddhism at an Impasse

by Matthew O’Connell Part 1: https://posttraditionalbuddhism.com/2014/07/14/collapse-awaken-submission-for-the-dark-mountain/ Collapse & Awaken: submission for the Dark Mountain This was a piece I wrote for the Dark Mountain Project about a year or so back. It’s been hanging around gathering computer dust amongst other lost projects, so as it’s been a while since I’ve written anything for the site, I… Read More Collapse and Awaken by Matthew O’Connell

The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More Jazz has inspired a great many things, and a great many things have inspired jazz, and more than a few of the music’s masters have found their aspiration by looking — or listening — to the… Read More Open Culture: Jazz Heaven

Harbour Tableaux The Harbour is the harbour framed by the living room window a momentary drama of stillness The Bridge is the bridge despite being raised by two metres to allow super-size container ships to pass underneath The Buildings are the buildings their human occupants obscured behind shades drawn by nightfall The Trees are the… Read More Poetry and Suchness: Harbour Tableaux