This will be the last (the 5th!) in a series of posts reviewing Justin Von Bujdoss’s Modern Tantric Buddhism chapter-by-chapter. Outer Mind Before commenting on the book itself, I think it’s good to think about this passage from the Dalai Lama on adapting Buddhism to different cultures: People who accept a new idea or religion,…
This is the fourth installment (!) of my review of Justin Von Bujdoss’s Modern Tantric Buddhism: Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice. Outer Speech He describes a kind of learned helplessness among people who don’t practice enough to benefit from practice. In my experience working with people who are having a hard time with their…
The previous two posts focused on the outer body and inner body chapters of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice. This will be a critique of “secret body”, the chapter about death. The first thing I notice is how mushy the thinking is, for lack of a better word. For some reason…
The previous post reviewed the introduction and first chapter of Justin Von Bujdoss’s Modern Tantric Buddhism: Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice. The book is organized into 3 major sections: body, spech, and mind. Each is subdivided into “inner”, “outer”, and “secret” chapters. Very Tantra. I think I’m going to have a lot to say…
Despite obvious deep interests in race and Buddhism, I mostly don’t engage with stuff about “race and Buddhism.” I’m black, but that’s a social identity, and Buddhism is something I’ve done primarily by myself. The formerly secret texts have been translated into English and made available on amazon.com. Western social contructionism and Mahayana ideas on…
I’ve written before about Eric Levitz being an asshole, because he represents racist liberals generally. Ibram Kendi is annoying too, as the white liberal’s anti-racism guru. Whenever Levitz writes a column about Kendi…I’m aggravated enough to blog about it. He’s done it again: Ibram X. Kendi Does Not Run the Democratic Party. Obviously, Republicans are…
Being vegan really changes your perspective on why we can’t have nice things. Activists spend a lot of energy “raising awareness” of various problems, but people already know more about them than they want to. The ignorance is actively maintained. We’re in the realm of psychoanalysis, not education. For example, a book review in the…