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It is increasingly obvious that natural limitations will soon force economic growth to cease. Buddhist teachings emphasize that this does not require a reduction in the quality of life. Read more: Sustainability, Green Living, Buddhism, Peak Oil, Economic Crisis, Green Faith, Eco-Theology, Eco-Buddhism Project, Free Market Capitalism, Economic Reform, Gross National Happine...
- John Stanley: Beyond The Matrix -- A Buddhist Approach (Category: Features)
- Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: The Karmapa: Tibetan Buddhism's Next Great Leader? (Category: Features)
- David Loy: Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: At The Center Of The Buddhist World (Category: Features)
I came across an article in The Daily Beast the other morning entitled ""America the Angry"." In it, political consultant Douglas Schoen discusses the findings of a recent Newsweek/Daily Beast poll revealing that the vast majority of Americans are in a bad mood. As unemployment, gas and grocery prices are on the rise, so are people's levels of anger, anxiety and frustration. Three-quart...
- Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Category: Features)
- Bernie Glassman: The Buddhist Way of Being Present to Suffering (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: How To Meditate Through Strong Emotions (Category: Features)
"The institutions of our society co-arise with us. They are not independent structures separate from our inner lives, like some backdrop to our personal dramas. Nor are they merely projections of our own minds. As collective forms of our ignorance, fears and greed, they acquire their own momentum, enlist our massive obedience, and depend on our collective consent." --Joanna Macy: World A...
- Sharon Glassman: Dear Radio Diary: Behind the Scenes at Boomer Alley Radio (Category: Features)
- Jim Luce: Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11 (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism And The Fate Of The Species (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Eco-Buddhism: A Sustainable Enlightenment (Category: Features)
An eminent scholar recently came to our university campus and spoke about the role of diverse religious communities of the world and their attitudes toward the environment. He showed examples from several indigenous communities from the North America, South America, Africa and Asia. However, when he referred to the traditions of India, he used these words: "India has the most bizarre cult...
- Rajan P. Parrikar: Varanasi: India's Holy City (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Varanasi - India's Holy City (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Philip Goldberg: Are Eastern Religions More Science-Friendly? (Category: Features)
- Howard Steven Friedman: 5 Religions With The Most Followers (Category: Features)
Another externality dismissed in market systems is the fate of the species. Systemic risk in the financial system can be remedied by the taxpayer, but no one will come to the rescue if the environment is destroyed. That it must be destroyed is close to an institutional imperative. Business leaders who conduct propaganda campaigns to convince the population that anthropogenic global warmin...
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Perspective On Ecological Responsibility (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Compassion And The Shadow (Category: Features)
- The Avatar in Us All (Category: Features)
- Sheila Shayon: The Avatar in Us All (Category: Features)
"Right Livelihood" is a traditional Buddhist teaching and one of the limbs of the eight-fold path taught by the Buddha. For laypeople, Buddha's teaching of right livelihood meant ethical livelihood. In the book The Buddha's Teaching on Prosperity by Bhikku Basnagoda Rahula there is this quote from the scripture "Numerical Discourses": "The layperson's objective [is to] live a long and dig...
- Darren Littlejohn: A Buddhist Yogi's Response To Mass Murder (Category: Features)
- Lodro Rinzler: Buddhism and Activism: How Would Sid Produce Social Change? (Category: Features)
- Marianne Elliott: Zen of Giving and Receiving: a Buddhist Take on Effective aid (Category: Features)
Author's Note: On February 21st the Des Moines Register announced that a bill proposing to force the sale of Jackson Pollock's "Mural," in the collection of the University of Iowa's Art Museum, had died. This blog, about the controversy generated by the bill, and also about the cultural forces surrounding it, was composed while the bill was still under consideration. It is hopefully sti...
- PHOTOS: 50 Years Of San Francisco Zen (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Do Buddhists Believe In God? (Category: Features)
China's recent passive-aggressive behavior on the world stage is unfortunate but not unexpected. President Obama is handling the PRC's non-collaboration with great skill and savvy. He realizes the Middle Kingdom's ancient cultural imperatives and contemporary geo-political objectives dictate a balance of caution and steely firmness. If he stays the course, push-me-pull-you tension bet...
- Tom Doctoroff: Modern China's Spiritual Crisis: Does it Exist? (Category: Features)
- Robert Thurman: Why Tibet Matters So Much (Category: Features)
- For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict (Category: Breaking News)
"The way you support yourself can be an expression of your deepest self, or it can be a source of suffering for you and others... Our vocation can nourish our understanding and compassion, or erode them. We should be awake to the consequences, far and near, of the way we earn our living." --Thich Nat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk "I had my eyes opened. I saw that I had become part of a ...
- Philip Goldberg: Sanctum Santorum: He's Not The Only Ignorant One (Category: Features)
- PHOTOS: Celebrating The Buddha's Birthday Around The World (Category: Features)
- Rothwell Polk: Project Conversion: 12 Faiths In 12 Months (Category: Features)
By Chris Herlinger Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) In a city tired and edgy from a sagging economy, terrorist threats and a cold and wet spring, comes the Dalai Lama with a sunny message of hope. Despite a seeming endless supply of disasters and global woe, humanity
- HH Dalai Lama To Celebrate 77th Birthday (Category: Features)
- WATCH LIVE: The Dalai Lama Speaks At D.C. 'Kalachakra For World Peace' (Category: Features)
- Dalai Lama Taps American To Be Abbot Of Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (Category: Features)
- 'The Largest Gathering For World Peace In History' Coming To D.C. (Category: Features)
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