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On Compassion
Warning: 1) The content in this post is meant for adult audiences. It contains material that is graphic (unfortunately) and violent in description. 2) This might be a little bit on the long side, and...
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The Brit Hume fallout: Victory for The Extremists
I was going to respond to some really stupid comments and posts I saw being made by Christians/Conservatives on some of the links that Kyle provided, along with some others I found. I had an agenda,...
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Please Help Haiti
If you are able to give anything at all, please do. Elephant Journal also has a great list of links, as does John at Zen Dirt as well as Nick at ItsJustLight that all point in the direction of aid and...
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SnOMG!!!!
Having grown up in Michigan, I can remember regularly having feet of snow lasting all winter. And it was fun. We had snowmobiles to ride, snowmen to make, and snow forts to build. And when the day was...
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And more snow related suffering…….
“In some areas homes have been without power since last November, facing record snowfalls and the collapsing infrastructure of America’s Midwestern water and power lines and disaster response systems....
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No Direction Home…….
The other day, Nathan had a post over on Dangerous Harvests about “what “right action” is when it comes to interacting with people begging on the streets”. I started a reply there, and realized that my...
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Article Swap #3 – Buddhist Ethics in Political Dialogue (guest post by Justin...
The following is a guest post from Justin of the wonderful blog, American Buddhist Perspective. This is part of the great “Buddhoblogosphere Blog Swap” that was set up by Nate over at Precious Metal....
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Something brewing in the atmosphere
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. It was a terrible, gruesome act perpetrated by a home-grown terrorist. It’s been recently pointed out in the media and the blogosphere...
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Earth Day Post: Blue Dharma
Today is Earth Day. Now, I know that the Buddha never lectured on water conservation, solar energy, or global climate change. But he did talk at length about compassion. He did speak of karma. What we...
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Hero for the day……
A friend forwarded me this article from the Seattle Times about a little boy who’s wish came true. Watching her son run across the plaza in front of the Space Needle, mom Judy Martin said Erik goes to...
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We're all one, man!
An interesting discussion (here and here) has been happening around the interwebs around Stephen Prothero’s book: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences...
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Building the Mosque “at” ground zero, and crafted responses
Let me start by saying that I’m not a huge fan of the Muslim faith. There, I said it! I don’t hate Muslims, Arabs, or people from any geographic or religious background. But I’m not a huge fan of...
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Intentions and raccoons
Friday evening there was a knock on our door. An old man, out of breath from climbing our stairs was at our door, flashlight in hand. He was looking for his cat that had escaped. He informed us that...
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Everyone is homeless…
I contacted Anoki over at Buddha Badges a few weeks ago about creating a special badge that centered around homelessness (something near to my heart as I’ve blogged about previously…), and using...
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My thoughts on “Socially Engaged” Buddhism
There certainly has been quite a lot of talk lately about Socially Engaged Buddhism, and whether or not it is crap, real, necessary, or unavoidable. I’ve completely avoided commenting anywhere on any...
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Affirm life; do not kill
— On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, dozens of white plastic bags lay in carefully arranged rows. Each sack was knotted at the top and contained the remains of a fetus. Thai authorities found about...
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There were 19 victims in Arizona
I really don’t have much time to post lately, and I have thoughts of closing the blog down for good as I really don’t see myself being able to make time to commit to posting. More on that some other...
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Heartwarming
Take 4 minutes out of your day to watch this short video about a principal in Las Vegas reaching out to her young students – over 80% of which are homeless. When I saw the children eating ketchup for...
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