[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 revise it again. But I stand behind everything I say here, as this is a reflection of my direct experience of Buddhism.] “We must surrender… Read More My Year In Institutional 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 at NON + X http://www.nonplusx.com Consult the nonbuddhist.com wiki of non-buddhist terms for definitions of new and puzzling words in the x-post-non-buddhist literature. Here are a… Read More READ: NON + X ejournal of Post-Traditional Buddhism

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, wait, if someone shows up, I offer my business card that says “PhD, climate scientist”, express my worry, and offer to speak anything about climate and… Read More Zen Peacemakers and Climate Takuhatsu

Post-Traditional Buddhism Redux. [Editor: Please go to the Post-Traditional Buddhism blog and read Matthew O’Connell’s brilliant analysis of the state of Buddhism in the 21st century west, and his take on the post-traditional practice of Buddhism. The following is his latest post on ‘post-traditional Buddhism.” After the article there is a list of other blogs that… Read More Post-Traditional Buddhism Redux

I don’t learn much from good people who are trying to be better. I learn more from bad people who are trying to be good. Like my best friend Buddy from Northampton, Massachusetts. Buddy was a butch queen from Boston. A butch queen is a gay man who looks masculine but has queenie-attitudes which he… Read More Dear Hero in Prison

Driven To Tears How can you say that your not responsible? What does it have to do with me? What is my reaction? What should it be? Confronted by this latest atrocity Driven to tears Driven to tears Driven to tears Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat My comfortable existence… Read More Just Keep Meditating. . .

In 1974, Chogyam Trungpa began to introduce “Buddhism without credentials” to America. I wonder if Chogyam Trungpa ever considered what might be the strange, twisted outcome of bringing Buddhism to America? Trungpa precisely addressed the issue in his searing critique, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Yet contrary to his stated intentions, he founded Naropa Institute, which awards masters… Read More No Logo: The Post-Buddhism Buddhist