People want the world to be safe. Why do people want to get rid of foreigners? Or feel threatened by the possibility of aliens and strange things or things that they can’t predict? The more insular you are, the more your world is like that, so even people from the next county, ‘Well, you can’t trust them; they’re not like us.’ You are limited to a very small group of people…
Read MoreDecades of identity politics rhetoric and a misreading of Me Too are justifying a new form of violent, online vigilantism. Buddhist teachers have not only failed to speak out against this type of violence, they have promoted and participated in this new form of vigilantism
Read MoreDoes Buddhism offer any special perspective on the ecological crisis? Do its teachings imply a different way of understanding the biosphere, and our relationship to it…
Read MoreAmericans support due process, and based on overwhelming poll numbers that includes American Buddhists. Disregarding the value American buddhists place on due process protections damages the credibility of the Spirit Rock decision, the organization and its ability to be a leader in the insight meditation movement…
Read MoreFollow these 12 simple steps and get the recognition you deserve! There’s a world of admiration and respect waiting for you when you start leading your new Sangha!
Read MoreUnderstanding the radicalism of Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent resistance… King pursued a distinctly leftist program, including alliances with a then-powerful labor movement and a militant dedication to equality in housing and the criminal justice system — two areas where racial inequalities have in many ways become more pronounced than they were in King’s day.
Read MoreSince I stood up for our shared civil liberties in May of 2018, I have been called an ignorant, insensitive, misogynist, rape apologist and accused of slut shaming, harming women and idol worship, mostly from inside the Buddhist community. I am none of those things. I am an American Buddhist feminist.
Read MoreThe Author responds to being labeled a “Bad Feminist” for calling out the firing of a male colleague without evidence of wrongdoing. “My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. If they were, we wouldn't need a legal system.”
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