Science Fiction w/ Buddhist Themes
Speculative fiction books with Buddhist themes: I cobbled together this list from a forum discussion saved on Reddit and Wikipedia. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light: (1967) Buddha (Sam) battles the Hindi … Continue reading
Beyond Buddhism
Buddhism is a dead religion. That is, if you practice it as a religion. If you don’t practice it as a religion, but as a journey to explore the infinite … Continue reading
Krishna Das: Tara Protectress of Our ‘Higher Ground’
This is a preview of the live version of track 6 “Tara’s Mantra” on Krishna Das’s April 2014 album release “Kirtan Wallah”. This live kirtan was filmed on New York … Continue reading
Non-Self as Fuzzy Logic
The following post is explores Buddhist cosmology using fuzzy logic, of which I am only just becoming familiar. Fuzzy logic is a fairly new branch of mathematics that creates sets (categories) out of … Continue reading
Radical Dharma with Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams opens the dialogue on racism in America with Buddhists and social justice activists, from a radical dharma perspective. Rev. Kyodo williams’ perspective includes Buddhist concepts but … Continue reading
Janet Yellen: Rising Inequality
From the New Yorker: RISING INEQUALITY: JANET YELLEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concerns me. … It … Continue reading
Why we need cooperative accumulation
from Michael Bauwens, P2P Foundation: Editor: a bit of pretext: Economies of the future can go one of two ways: 1) amplification and acceleration of “survival of the fittest” in which … Continue reading
Bahuchara Mata
by Shaun Bartone Part I. As a Buddhist, I believe in deities. Or let’s say I have a certain relationship with deities that preceded becoming a Buddhist, and I see … Continue reading
#StayWoke: White Privilege and ‘Emptiness’
The following article by Christopher Raiche is a long overdue indictment of the doctrinal distortion perpetrated by North American Buddhists, a distortion of reality that leads to delusion and self-centred … Continue reading
Connecting the dots: why black lives must matter to the environmental movement
There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives. – Audre Lorde (photographed above) In the days since the police shot and … Continue reading
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