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    World Cup 2010 Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 08 Jun 2010
    Back in 2007, three years before professional soccer teams were set to descend on South Africa's cities, 2010 World Cup fever was already taking hold. In Cape Town, where I was living at the time, billboards, posters, and television ads encouraged South Africans to keep the cities clean and safe in preparation for their 2010 visitors and hotels and restaurants had begun remodeling in anticipation of the hordes of fans. It will be the first World Cup to be held on the African continent, and South Africa—whose political, social, and financial troubles are well documented—has a lot riding on the month-long event. Now, two days before the ref's whistle signals the start of the first game between South Africa and Mexico, World Cup madness has reached a hysterical pitch—both within the host country and in the far-flung corners of the globe. More »
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    A flying kick at enlightenment Paid Member

    Posted by James Shaheen on 04 Jun 2010
    Whenever we post about martial-arts movies (or when Phil posts about Kill Bill) we get a few kneejerk criticisms for being sympathetic to—or at least tolerant of—representations of violence on the screen. There's a pretty basic formula for these films—flying kicks and extraordinary violence cut with shots of meditative practice or scenic recapitulations of spiritual lessons from the protagonist's early years with the master (remember Kung Fu?). Video games, too: I posted about the Karmapa's use of violent video games as "emotional therapy" and plenty found that practice pretty distasteful. More »
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    Joan Oliver interviews Mirabai Bush on the Symposium for Socially Engaged Buddhism Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 03 Jun 2010
    From August 9th to 14th, 2010, the Zen Peacemakers will be hosting “The First Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism”, in Montague, MA. More »
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    Celebrating the Return of Khyentse Rinpoche Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 01 Jun 2010
    I am very happy to help spread the news about Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche's first visit to the United States this August.  This trip will both serve as a commemoration of the life of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth as well as a welcoming of his current incarnation, Khyentse Yangsi, to the United States.  May it be the first of many! Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche is going to be in the the US from August 5th through 15th and there will be a series of events (empowerments, teachings, and celebrations) in New York City, Vermont, and Colorado. Please visit the Celebrating the Return! More »
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    Watch: 3D Kalachakra Mandala Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 28 May 2010
    Our recent popular Sand Mandala video post reminded me that I've been meaning to look for this great 3D CGI Kalachakra Mandala video that I saw several years ago.  Sure enough, it took about 90 seconds to track down on youtube. More »
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    "The End of Lost: Death, Dharma, and the Dao" on Huffpost Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 27 May 2010
    Here is an interesting Huffington Post article on the finale of Lost.  Michael Carmichael writes, In the shattering aftermath of the end of Lost, the overwhelming tendency will be to dumb down its meaning to the level of mere western entertainment. Lost deserves to be understood as an epic -- an infinite interlocking series of trilogies and operas articulating the transformations of consciousness through the processes of death. Death is central to all world religions. Lao Tzu, the Buddha, and Chogyam Trungpa, the iconoclastic founder of the Naropa Institute, and countless other eastern philosophers have investigated and understood the cognitive phenomenology of death. More »