Astrophysicist and NPR blogger Adam Frank writes about the “sustainability bottleneck” as the state faced by technological civilizations like ours, which have learned how to “intensively harvest” energy, but not how to sustain themselves through the crisis this harvesting sets off. It turns out there may be millions of planets that give rise to life in our galaxy alone. Frank […]
Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’
Sustainability bottleneck (or, No one here gets out alive?)
Posted in EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Anthropocene, astrobiology, Buddhism, cosmology, sustainability, sustainability bottleneck on January 22, 2015 | 7 Comments »
Quaking the subject
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, process-relational thought, Shinzen Young, spiritual practice, Whitehead on April 13, 2014 | 4 Comments »
This post continues my thinking on the topic of a process-relational “bodymind practice” — an existential art or “technique of the self” building on Buddhist meditation practice reinterpreted and augmented through process-relational philosophy. In this post, I incorporate insights obtained through the practice of Quaker silent worship. See the posts “ What a bodymind can do” parts 1, 2, 3, and update for background […]
What’s real
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Buddhism, Politics, process-relational thought, Whitehead on October 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Conversation overheard between an ambitious grad student and a simpleminded process-relational philosopher . . . Jake Wanano-Everton: Sir, where do you draw the line between what’s real and what’s not real? Prof. Noah Fewthings: The only things that are real are the moments of experienced reality — drops of experience, let’s […]
Half-Buddhist, half-Marxist
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Marxism on July 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone who thought “socially engaged Buddhism” (a.k.a. liberation Buddhism, Buddhist socialism, et al.) was a marginal movement within the Buddhist world, Bruce Smithers’s Tricycle article “Occupy Buddhism” shows it reaches high up the (sort of) hierarchy of publicly known Buddhists… to the Dalai Lama. It’s a selective analysis (the DL is much more pragmatic […]
“What a bodymind can do” update
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged bodymind, Buddhism, categories, experience, Mahayana, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, Shinzen Young on March 25, 2013 | 2 Comments »
The following provides an updated diagram and some further notes pertaining to my three-part article “What A Bodymind Can Do.” The earlier parts can be read here: part 1, part 2, part 3. (Please note that this version has corrected a minor error in the originally posted article, and added a bit more information at […]
Zizek v. Buddhism: who’s the subject?
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, process-relational thought, subjectivity, Zizek on December 11, 2012 | 13 Comments »
This started out as a response to Slavoj Zizek’s recent talk here at the University of Vermont on “Buddhism Naturalized,” but evolved into a consideration of subjectivity, which happened to be the topic of my next post in the pre-G (process-relational ecosophy-G) series. So this can be considered part 1 of a 2-part series.
The dharma of file sharing
Posted in Academe, tagged AAAAARG, Buddhism, dharma, file sharing, open access, Thich Nhat Hanh on July 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The same issues I have blogged about in relation to academic file sharing site aaaaarg.org have been (predictably) arising elsewhere, including most recently — and a little less predictably — in the world of online Buddhism. This particular discussion got started by an announcement at Buddha Torrents that they have been asked (rather politely) to […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 3
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged aesthetics, Buddhism, ecology, emergence, ethics, flow, logic, Peirce, Shinzen Young, Whitehead, Wilber on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the concluding part of a three-part article. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. They should be read in the sequence in which they were published. The True, the Good, and the Beautiful All of this can be related to the triad of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 2
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, practice, process-relational thought, Shinzen Young, Whitehead on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This continues from the previous post, where Shinzen Young’s model of core mindfulness practices was expanded into a system of classifying what a human bodymind can do. Here the model is deepened following the process-relational insights that are at the core of Shinzen’s system as well as of other (especially Mahayana and Vajrayana) Buddhist systems, […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 1
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, practice, process-relational thought, Shinzen Young, Whitehead on May 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Working with Shinzen Young‘s system of mindfulness training, which I’ve described here before, and thinking it through in the process-relational logic I’ve been developing on this blog (and elsewhere), is resulting in a certain re-mix of Shinzen’s ideas, and of Buddhism more generally, with Peirce’s, Whitehead’s, Wilber’s, Deleuze’s, and others’. Here’s a crack at where […]
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