Buddha was a homeless beggar on Spring Garden Road. It’s very likely that if Gotama Buddha were alive today, he would be diagnosed by mental health officials as mentally ill, psychotic, delusional. His “teachings” would be classified as the religious ravings of a schizophrenic. Imagine that you go up to a homeless guy who is… Read More Buddha was a homeless beggar on Spring Garden Road
EDITOR: Can’t wait to see the papers that come out of this conference: Buddhism under Capitalism: Deadline Extended by American Academy for Religion [AAR] for proposals Posted on March 2, 2015 Good news for anyone wishing to submit a proposal for the seminar on Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism, American Academy for Religion, Atlanta, 2015:… Read More Buddhism Under Capitalism AAR Seminar Atlanta GA 2015
X-Post-Non. This is a thing which is happening in Halifax. It’s really not that scary.
Question the status quo. Yeah, right on, dude. Everywhere. All the time. That is my practice as an engaged Buddhist. http://www.dpr.info/videos/questioning-the-status-quo/ And whether or not I am officially a “student of Dzogchen Ponlop” i.e. a member of his sangha, is entirely IRRELEVANT. What matter is that I’m inspired by his teaching and practice what he… Read More DPR: Challenge the Status Quo
I’m ready to dig into this podcast series from 2013 featuring Stephen Batchelor and Joan Halifax exploring “After Buddhism”, practice in a post-Buddhist context. To listen to the podcasts, you have to input a valid email address, that’s all. I’ll report back once I get though it all. After Buddhism Series : All 12 Parts Series… Read More After Buddhism: Stephen Batchelor and Joan Halifax Discuss Post-Buddhist Practice
by the Editor, Shaun Bartone “Get out of the shrine room. You’re more likely to find enlightenment at a bus stop in Seattle than you are in some fancy shrine room.” Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. As an engaged Buddhist, I am most interested with those aspects of Buddhist teaching and practice which are concerned with social… Read More Occupy the Neighbourhood: Practice as a Post-Buddhism Buddhist
By Terry Plotkin http://www.freethehuman.com Essays and books by the author about human liberation. Nearly 40 year ago I went to Washington D.C. for the final leg of The Longest Walk. This was a Native-American sponsored event. They had walked cross-country to the nation’s capitol to make a statement of their rights, build their movement, and… Read More A Native American Koan
