"Our forebears endured and sacrificed so much to protect and conserve this island that we share. Our forebears endured and sacrificed so much to get us to this moment. There's an enormous moral obligation on us now to ensure we maintain their legacy. It's vital we adopt the Rights of Nature. "Chosain agus chaomhnaigh ár sinsir dúlra na tíre leis na cianta. Tá sé de dhualgas orainn a chinntiú nach loitfear í i rith ár seal anseo. Tá sé riachtanach go nglacfar le na Rights of Nature." (Manchán Magan, Writer/Broadcaster)
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A powerful depiction of our imaginative absorption into the horizons of capitalist realism. “If I cannot dance, I want no part in your revolution Where once the rhythms of the Earth danced with my soul Today the algorithm translates me-me”
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The underlying teachings of mindfulness offer much more in this consumer age; they offer new sources of critical inquiry into our collective condition under the sway of consumer culture. Since the post-WWll rise of mass advertising and the more recent global advance of consumer culture cultivated through the ubiquitous forms of media technology, our collective… Continue reading Beyond Mindfulness – A call for a critical political economy of attention
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‘Touching the Earth’ is a Buddhist meditation that invites us into that place where we encounter archaic memory, the memory of blissful unknowing. It is a place within all of us that recalls – with every animal – that moment when we walked memoryless through bars of sunlight and shade in the morning of the… Continue reading Touching the Earth
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Conclusion: Living in Challenging Times The Buddha’s narrative and teaching have been transmitted across many cultures over the centuries and are always – in effect – in translation. The generic idea of the ‘buddha’ incorporates awakening and teaching for a given time or era. In our own times, our conditions of life are giving rise… Continue reading Living in Challenging Times – Part Three
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The Buddha referred to an unsettling characteristic of life as ‘dukkha’, which is the Sanskrit term that refers to a ‘wheel with an off-centre axle hole’. In stating that all things are marked by dukkha, the Buddha was simply observing that life can often be experienced as something that is out of kilter, always jolting… Continue reading Buddha’s Tool Box for Simple Living – Part Two
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The underlying teachings of mindfulness offer much more in this consumer age; they offer new sources of critical inquiry into our collective condition under the sway of consumer culture. Since the post-WWll rise of mass advertising and the more recent global advance of consumer culture cultivated through the ubiquitous forms of media technology, our collective… Continue reading Beyond Mindfulness – A call for a critical political economy of attention
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‘Touching the Earth’ is a Buddhist meditation that invites us into that place where we encounter archaic memory, the memory of blissful unknowing. It is a place within all of us that recalls – with every animal – that moment when we walked memoryless through bars of sunlight and shade in the morning of the… Continue reading Touching the Earth
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Conclusion: Living in Challenging Times The Buddha’s narrative and teaching have been transmitted across many cultures over the centuries and are always – in effect – in translation. The generic idea of the ‘buddha’ incorporates awakening and teaching for a given time or era. In our own times, our conditions of life are giving rise… Continue reading Living in Challenging Times – Part Three
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The Buddha referred to an unsettling characteristic of life as ‘dukkha’, which is the Sanskrit term that refers to a ‘wheel with an off-centre axle hole’. In stating that all things are marked by dukkha, the Buddha was simply observing that life can often be experienced as something that is out of kilter, always jolting… Continue reading Buddha’s Tool Box for Simple Living – Part Two
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The Historical Buddha: A Living Parable for the Age of the Anthropocene The historical figure, Siddhatta Gotama, probably lived and taught between the years 563 and 483 BCE in the foothills of the Himalayas. The iconic story of his birth into an economically and politically influential family in the village of Kapilavatthu and, at the… Continue reading Buddha and the Age of the Anthropocene – Part One
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