I’m Buddhist, and I’m obviously interested in critical race theory, but I mostly haven’t engaged with “race and Buddhism.” Identity politics is at the level of relative truth, and emptiness and no-self are at the level of ultimate truth. Strongly identifying with concepts kind of defeats the purpose. I practice alone, so I’m not personally…
The New York Times magazine has a new interview with Temple Grandin, and I was actually astonished at how bad it was. It’s pretty much like this, all the way through: During the pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion about who’s vaccinated and who’s not, and historically, a fear of autism is one…
First of all, I love the academic study of Buddhism. I consider myself Buddhist, but for me that doesn’t involve belief in the supernatural. It’s more about cultivating a certain ethics and mental state. It doesn’t detract from my practice to read a good debunking of Zen lineage charts. At one point, books like Zen…