Kuan Yin: My Female Buddha
My altar is complete. I brought back my Kuan Yin to Halifax, which I bought about 20 years ago, in downtown Northampton, MA. [This photo does not do her justice; … Continue reading
When the Iron Bird Crashes: Tibetan Buddhism in the West and “Idiot Devotion”
Funny, it always starts this way: Buddhism promoted as a non-religious “science of mind”: “The organization consists of numerous urban ‘study and practice centres’ and a few rural ‘retreat centres’. … Continue reading
When the Iron Bird Crashes: Tibetan Buddhism in the West and “Idiot Devotion” Pt. 2
Shaun, Are those sanghas in Halifax of Ponlop (which it seems you are most familiar with, along with “Shambhala”), Dzigar Kongtrul, maybe Dzongsar Khyentse (and what about Khandro–does she have … Continue reading
CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY & THE PROBLEM WITH BELIEFS by Matthew O’Connell
The following are excerpts from an introduction to the article, “CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY & THE PROBLEM WITH BELIEFS: THE NKT, RIGPA AND SGI” by Matthew O’Connell, on the Post-Traditional Buddhism blog. … Continue reading
The X-Files: Post-Buddhist Inquiry
The X-Files: Dharma study from an outsider perspective. X-Post-Non-Buddhism. This is a thing that is happening in Halifax.
X-Post-Non: Buddhism from an Outsider Perspective
X- POST-NON Buddhism—welcome to the aporetic future of ancoric loss and aporetic dissonance in Buddhist thought. There is an explosion (pun) of great writing by multiple authors on post-traditional Buddhism … Continue reading
Dzongsar: Meditation is butt rot if you don’t see the truth
“To see the truth is the most important [thing]; morality, discipline, even meditation, even so called meditation as precious as it sounds, if your meditation is not making you see the truth, … Continue reading
My Year In Institutional Buddhism
[Editor’s note: I began writing this article three months ago, but held back on publishing it until now. It has been revised several times, and I reserve the right to … Continue reading
READ: NON + X ejournal of Post-Traditional Buddhism
X- POST-NON Buddhism—welcome to the aporetic future of ancoric loss and aporetic dissonance in Buddhist thought. There is an explosion (pun) of great writing by multiple authors on post-traditional Buddhism … Continue reading
Zen Peacemakers and Climate Takuhatsu
I’m writing this as a part of my “climate takuhatsu”. Soon after we moved to Boulder last year, I started this practice. I go door to door in our neighborhood, knock, … Continue reading
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