Tag: Buddhism
A Prayer for the Opening of Gates (in the Middle East)
Awareness of insecurity and surrender to it can soften us to let Eternity in, can humble us enough to receive that which is beyond our false sense of control. This is what The Days of Awe, and the Jew... Read More
On Greed and Giving Up the Boots I Cannot Live Without
I am on the planning committee of the International Political Camp at Agape Centro Ecumenico in the Italian Alps. Because I am always at a loss to describe exactly what Agape is to the uninitiated—a... Read More
Making Buddhism Accessible to Working-class People
On 18 July 2011, Sam Mowe wrote about diversity within American Buddhism for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‘s blog in an article titled “Tell Us Your Story.” One of the comments to that post ... Read More
Class Consciousness: The Spiritual Cost of Unemployment
I tend to think of Buddhist practice as a way of cultivating a mind so stable that such storms leave it unscathed, and I often judge myself harshly when I fail to live up to that standard—when the s... Read More
Birth, Old Age, Sickness, and Taxes: Buddhism and Fiscal Policy
With the recent controversy over a compromise to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts for two years, with congress threatening to de-fund everything from AmeriCorps to NPR, and with fiscal battles ragi... Read More
From CD-ROM to Blogosphere: Religious Pluralism Comes Home
In February of 1998, I returned to the wintry campus of St. Olaf College, a small Christian liberal arts school in rural Minnesota, after a five-month global study trip. It was a bewildering reverse c... Read More
Political Debate and Caricature
This post argues that when we reduce the religious/philosophical/theological/political/etc. views of others to caricature, we not only harm them, but we also harm ourselves and undermine our own posit... Read More
Bullied To Death: When Will Enough Be Enough?
Each new suicide resulting from anti-gay bullying begs the question: when will enough be enough? We Americans don’t know the meaning of the word “enough.” We don’t know when to stop consumin... Read More