CheatNeutral

Satirical web site designed to highlight some of the issues surrounding carbon offsetting.

Yatra Trilogy

 

Part of an ongoing series that travels to places of spiritual wonder and empowerment, Yatra Trilogy is a cycle of meditative passages offering a direct experience of sacred spaces and the wisdom they convey.

A revered and ancient practice in every spiritual tradition, Yatra is the Sanskrit word for sacred journey. Pilgrims travel to legendary destinations to share in the unique presence of these places.

John Bush is a filmmaker and photographer who has lived and traveled in Asia for more than three decades, sharing its sacred sites, culture and images in his work. His films and images are in museums and private collections around the world.

In 2001 he began filming the Yatra Trilogy. John founded Direct Pictures in 2002. His prior two documentary features are Dharma River and Prajna Earth. Both were shot on location in Southeast Asia and are screening at various global venues.

John was the long time CEO and creative force of the award-winning design company Illuminations. He founded Illumination Foundation in 2005 and is its Director.

Buddhadharma

Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly is the in-depth, practice-oriented journal for everyone with a serious interest in Buddhism.

It’s the one place you’ll find in-depth teachings from all the Buddhist traditions, presented in a way that applies directly to your practice. No matter what Buddhist path you follow, Buddhadharma offers you relevant and helpful teachings in every issue.

We are fortunate to have the support of Editorial Advisors who represent a wide variety of communities and traditions—Theravada, Zen, Pure Land, and Vajrayana. Advisors include:

Ajahn Amaro, Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Jeffrey Cox, Snow Lion Publications
Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen Foundation, San Francisco Zen Center
Roshi Bernie Glassman, Zen Peacemaker Order
Jack Kornfield, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
John Daido Loori, Roshi, Zen Mountain Monastery
Timothy McNeill, Wisdom Publications
Larry Mermelstein, Nalanda Translation Committee
Reginald A. Ray, Naropa University
Barbara Rhodes, Kwan Um School of Zen
Sharon Salzberg, Insight Meditation Society
Robert Thurman, Columbia University, Tibet House U.S.
Peter Turner, Shambhala Publications
Taitetsu Unno, American Buddhist Study Center
Michael Wenger, San Francisco Zen Center

It’s About Your Community

Buddhadharma reflects the growing sense of communication and common purpose among Buddhist sanghas in the West. In the pages of Buddhadharma we come together as practitioners, discover what we share and how we differ, and support and learn from one another. You’ll find stories and features that help bring Buddhists together, and the most comprehensive coverage of Buddhist community news available today.

And there’s more…

Buddhadharma brings you in-depth reviews of the latest books on Buddhism, and articles about the people and issues that are of special interest to Buddhists.

The editors of Buddhadharma are Tynette Deveaux and Melvin McLeod, Editor-in-Chief.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

About the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF)

Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s open-hearted engagement with the world is expressed through expanding programs in the United States and Asia. Through BPF, Buddhists of many different traditions are developing individual and group responses to socially conditioned suffering.

BPF draws on diverse sources to accomplish this work:

• The wisdom and compassion of Buddhist tradition and practice
• Contemporary North American peace and social justice movements
• Other nonviolent, progressive, faith-based movements for social change

Through our worldwide network of members, we strive to bring peace where there is conflict, to promote communication and cooperation among Buddhist sanghas, and to alleviate suffering wherever possible.

BPF members work to promote democracy and human rights around the globe, particularly focusing on Bangladesh, Burma, Vietnam, and Tibet. We collaborate closely with our friends at the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) in Thailand. Other BPF-sponsored work includes:

• BASE, our community-based volunteer service and activist training program
• Prison Program, involved in prison advocacy/education, ministry,
  correspondence, and networking
• Turning Wheel, our quarterly journal
• Participation in vigils, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns
• Developing resources and guidelines to address issues of abuse within Buddhist communities

The Green Parent

The green lifestyle magazine for the whole family

Welcome to The Green Parent website, home of the UK’s leading green lifestyle magazine. You’ll find lots of information and inspiration here, whether you want to read articles on natural parenting or try out guilt-free shopping.

This gorgeous magazine covers all aspects of family life from birth to alternative education, eco house and garden to nutrition. Each issue comes with a pull-out Green Kids magazine packed with nature activities and games. It is available through stores nationwide or you can buy copies here.

Angry Monk

ANGRY MONK – Reflections on Tibet
a film by Luc Schaedler
Switzerland 2005

Tibet — the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened monks? Only one of them wouldn’t toe the line: Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual, he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for a free Tibet. A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the anger of the Tibetan authorities.

The cinematic journey through time portrays the life of this unorthodox monk, revealing a face of old Tibet that goes against popular clichés. The film makes an abundance of unique and rare historical footage available to the general public for the first time. But it does not dwell on the past; rather it skilfully oscillates between tradition and modernity. Archival images of ancient caravans and monasteries give way to scenes of discos and multi-lane highways in Lhasa, where pilgrims prostrate themselves as they circle the holy temple. ANGRY MONK offers a fascinating insight into a country whose eventful past is refracted in the multiplicity and contradictions of everyday life.

Ultimately, this road movie also tells the story of a man who left home to search for something that could have liberated traditional Tibet from its rigidity. An outsider who was always open to new things, he eventually became a stranger in his homeland and homeless in foreign lands — a wanderer between worlds.

The One Tonners

Cathy Green’s blog

I want to start a movement of people all taking immediate action in their own lives on Climate Change. According to George Monbiot, we in the West need to reduce our personal carbon footprint by 90% by 2030 which is not currently possible for the average Brit without Government help and legislation. However, what is possible is an immediate 80% cut which would reduce the average personal carbon emissions of Five Tonnes to One Tonne of CO2 a year. Your personal carbon emissions are the ones you can control that come from your house and your personal travel. If you can reduce to One Tonne in your personal emissions you will almost be living sustainably on this planet – you can become a One Tonner. The process is very simple and easy to do – all you really need to do is switch to a Green Electricity supplier, insulate your house, cut down the driving and STOP FLYING! Once you have done these actions you will be well on your way to becoming a One Tonner… email me especially if you are local to Gloucestershire and tell me your tips for making the journey to becoming a One Tonner…

Safe Water Campaign

Say NO to water fluoridation. Your water is about to be poisoned. Only one thing can stop it. YOU! The Government wants to see our water supplies fluoridated. We need your support to ensure that the Water Companies and the Strategic Health Authority don’t fluoridate. Why are we so concerned? Your questions answered:Click here

The aim of the group is to campaign for safe drinking water, in particular to campaign against the fluoridation of our public water supplies. Dr Peter Mansfield, a physician and an advisory board member of the recent government review of fluoridation has said: “No physician in his right senses would prescribe for a person he has never met, whose medical history he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change, with the advice: ‘Take as much as you like to, but you will take it for the rest of your life because some children suffer from tooth decay. ‘ It is a preposterous notion.” We at the Safe Water Campaign agree.

The chemical in question…

Hexafluorosilicic Acid is a registered Class 2 Poison under the Poisons Act 1972. It is comparable to the deadly weed killer Paraquat which has no known antidote and has now been banned from sale to gardeners. It is not certificated as a medicine. How could it be? The current level of one mg per litre of fresh water is around ten times the concentration of natural and harmless Calcium fluoride, often found in natural water sources. The EU has banned artificial fluoridation because of the risks to general health. Our Labour Government has legalized it, while the Department of Health is promoting it. WHY?

Gaian Economics

Molly Scott Cato, the economics speaker for the green party, presents her personal views in a blog. Molly has a PhD in economics and works in co-operative research as well as trying to build up bioregional economies.

“All other green campaigns become futile without tackling the economic system and its ideological defenders. Economics is only dismal because there are not enough of us making it our own. Read on and become empowered!”

Healthy at 100

Welcome to Healthy at 100. Here you will find information about John Robbins’ newest book, and resources to help you make life choices that enhance your health, nourish your spirit, and make the most of each stage in your life’s journey.

Quote by John Robbins
“The choices that we make today as to the way we treat each other, the way we raise our children, the kinds of families and communities we create, will determine how the future unfolds. If we treat each other one way, we can cultivate people driven by a death urge, who are despondent and mean. If we treat each other another way, if we encourage and uphold our essential goodness and capacity for loving connection, we can nurture a society of people who are healthy and whole and whose lives will bring healing, peace, and joy to those they touch.I believe that the real news on this planet is love—why it exists, where it came from, and where it is going. I believe that ultimately it is the love in our lives that underlies and makes possible our greatest healing and longevity.   

Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all have a choice to be either accomplices in the status quo or everyday revolutionaries. We have a choice whether to succumb to the cultural trance, eat fast food, and race by each other in the night, or to build lives of caring, substance, and healing. So much depends on that choice.”