Progressive Buddhism

A Prayer for Peace BY Thich Nhat Hanh In beauty, sitting on a lotus flower, is Lord Buddha, quiet and solid. Your humble disciple, calm and pure of heart, forms a lotus flower with his han...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayers-for-peace.html

Another title for this blog post and video discussion might be: "driving progress wisely." Or "a mindful approach to progress."  In the video, Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism is True: T...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-progress-possible-mindfulness-vs.html

 We all are aware that in most cases, crawling comes before walking, and walking comes before running. It’s like that with many things in life, you don’t immediately write the magnum opus as...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-mathematics-of-awakening.html

The first time I heard the phrase “in these uncertain times “ on a television commercial, I thought how sympathetic it was, acknowledging people’s fear and discomfort, across this world, a...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-these-uncertain-times.html

Last year I started a series on "Heroes of Progressive Buddhism" as a way to help build a portfolio of sorts of Buddhists around the world doing great, progressive work. The first in this seri...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2019/11/heroes-of-progressive-buddhism-myawaddy.html

One of the teachings of the Dharma is that our tendency to attach names to forms, and with those names, meanings. That’s very handy—we’d all be walking in front of busses, and not even kno...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2019/08/do-you-have-to-be-leftist-to-be.html

As this blog enters its 10th year, I find myself wondering: WHAT NEXT? The blog has had its ebbs and flows, as has Buddhist blogging in general (and all blogging perhaps?). Perhaps it has been...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2019/01/growing-deeper-engaging-further-future.html

When you study the history of Buddhism(s), you see that it has always shifted as it entered different cultures to be appropriate to the place and time. Tibetan Buddhism is clearly distinct from ...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/06/progressive-buddhism-as-more-secular.html

The Kalamericans Go to See the Teacher Thus have I seen on YouTube: A great speaker, a great wise Teacher was to give a TED talk from the city of the many universities. Word spread of this, ...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-sutra-to-americans.html

The Heart Sutra contains the lines, “...The Bodhisattva depends on Prajnaparamita and the mind is no hindrance. Without any hindrance no fears exist…” Rather than as some intellectual conce...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/04/fears-exist.html

Something we hear, see, even taste, touch, or a thought pops into our heads generates some interest. And, that interest piques our curiosity, and then we want to find out all we can about it.mAcc...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/03/youre-soaking-in-it.html

Ahimsa is the Sanskrit word that is typically translated as not-harm. It’s the ethos, a principle as reflected in the First Precept: Honor life, do not kill. That’s pretty straightforward. Co...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/03/killer-and-killed-right-now.html

In the Vimalakirti Sutra, Manjushri asks the assembled Bodhisattvas to define non-duality. They all come up with answers, but none of them really nail it. Their explanations speak of entering int...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/02/thunderous-silence.html

> A guest post by Robertson Work Shared vision and shared values are the keys to collaboration and coalition building. It is natural for each individual, organization, and movement to hav...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-can-we-build-coalitions-in-this.html

One of the virtues for followers of the Great Way is to be in a state of equanimity. This is expressed in a number of ways, the Buddha’s teaching to Rahula, “Make your mind like the earth. Ma...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/01/accept-not-settle.html

Prajna arises from unexpected places - sometimes even trolls. Some of you may remember a troll who stopped by the Progressive Buddhism Facebook page a few weeks ago. She left this insightful pea...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/01/loving-life-and-lovingkindness.html

> A guest post by Scott Newhall Why, for instance, should those interested in progressive Buddhism be looking at the work of Alperovitz? Why, indeed! The moment I started formulating an ...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2018/01/bringing-progressive-scholarship-to.html

Recently I was asked, roughly, "WHAT EXACTLY IS PROGRESSIVE BUDDHISM."  I had to think a bit. First, our sidebar says: > About Progressive Buddhism >  This is a group-blog on the�...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2017/12/progressive-buddhism-reflective.html

I don't pretend to understand all the nuances of whatever the circumstances regarding Myanmar, Rakhine state, or the Rohingya. My bet is that among the many people who have an opinion about this ...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2017/09/buddhist-violence.html

I’m waiting for something to happen. Beyond the existential concept that says we’re all waiting for something, I am waiting right now for information about something very specific. The detai...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2017/09/mindfulness-in-waiting.html

There's a line between “what we are,” and “what we do.” It's sometimes very blurry, sometimes may even overlap, and sometimes diametrically opposites. It's all based on self-identificatio...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2017/04/unintentionally-consequential.html

Overall my family and I have been pretty lucky with pets. My parents had two cats when I was growing up. The “baby” had a heart condition and I guess my mom had to give it medicine. That usu...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2017/01/zen-and-art-of-tube-feeding.html

"When they go low, we go high," Michelle Obama said during the recent campaign. If you're left-leaning, does this "high" mean we satisfy ourselves with a sense of moral superiority and passivity,...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2016/12/new-year-new-opportunities.html

Distracted by technology and propaganda, unable to relate to the human condition and nature, who are we today? Ask feminist icon and activist Ani DiFrancno . In an upcoming album release, we loo...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-buddhist-would-dig-ani-difranco.html

Over the years, I've tried numerous strategies to quell my anxiety. Truly it remains an uphill battle. Just being a Buddhist has given me a stronger framework from which to understand the mental...

http://progressivebuddhism.blogspot.com/2016/06/worry-would-it-help.html