THE DRUMS OF LIBERATION

One Piece and Zen One Piece is my favorite anime, and quite possibly one of the greatest works of fiction, ever. Fight me. I have so many thoughts about the importance of its themes that I struggle to write them down. While its anarchist themes are fairly self-evident, this video’s Buddhist interpretation is very interesting […]

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Reinventing the Wheel

Archives of the buddhist peace fellowship The Buddhist Peace Fellowship was, at least in the West, the most influential organization of the “Engaged Buddhism” tendency in the late 20th Century. It is still active today but has declined in membership and influence since its heyday. To understand the politics of the BPF it is especially […]

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How to Organise Your Building

Authors: Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal PDF file size: 207 KB Download PDF This article by Rose Lenehan and Tracy Rosenthal originally appeared in … How to Organise Your Building We don’t just talk about philosophy and meditation here: the point of practice is not to benefit yourself, but to help others. Get your shit […]

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Case #69: Gudō’s Teapot

A long time ago in a galaxy far away… Zen master Gudō and his students from the village had just finished their weekly zazenkai and were enjoying some tea and biscuits. A student asked the master: “Master, I have a problem. I want to help sentient beings by working to improve society. But my mind […]

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Nondominational Buddhism

Several years ago I wrote a post about the expected scope of this research project. I wanted to clarify what kind of operation I was performing in studying the intersection of Buddhism and anarchism. In that post, out of a healthy abundance of skepticism, I concluded that a reasonable outcome would be to find an […]

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White lotus, red turbans, black flags: revolutionary buddhist heretics

“The bodhisattva practices emptiness, but he does not realize emptiness…He considers peacefulness but does not seek extreme peace.” – Vimalakirti Sutra By way of (re)introduction Hello, my patient readers. Believe it or not, the work continues behind the scenes. It took me some time to come back around, but I am back on this project […]

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