Engaged Buddhist Perspectives

06/25/2024

06/25/2024

Leave Taylor Swift alone the patriarchy actually harms men also. 🙄🙄🙄

Omg read the last sentence

06/25/2024

Interesting 🧐

06/24/2024

06/24/2024

WE ARE THE UNIVERSE. INTERBEING.

06/24/2024

One of the cutest beings on this planet, an opossum, also one of the most misunderstood. They are marsupials, they do not transmit rabies and are indispensable for pest control, they are naturally docile and gentle, and when scared they show their teeth and hiss to appear menacing, but when they are terrified they don't "play" possum - they quite literally faint from fear - so do not harm them!

06/24/2024

Understanding and compassion are very powerful sources of energy.

They are the opposite of stupidity and passivity.

If you think that compassion is passive, weak, or cowardly, then you don't know what real understanding or compassion is.

If you think you that compassionate people do not resist and challenge injustice, you are wrong.

They are warriors, heroes, and heroines who have gained many victories.

When you act with compassion, with nonviolence, when you act on the basis of nonduality, you have to be very strong.

You no longer act out of anger.
You do not punish or blame.

Compassion grows constantly inside of you and you can succeed in your fight against injustice. 

Act on the insight of nonduality, the strength of compassion, not on the basis of anger.

Other human beings are not our enemies.
Our enemy is not the other person.

Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.

When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

We don't want to kill others, but we will not let them dominate and exploit us or other people. […]

We have to practice in an intelligent way.

--Thich Nhat Hanh

https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=460 #:~:text=Understanding%20and%20compassion%20are%20very,real%20understanding%20or%20compassion%20is.

WOKE

It has gone from a virtue signal to a dog whistle.

The language has been successfully co-opted – but as long as the underlying injustices remain, new words will emerge to describe them.

Please report any disparaging comments do not engage

Unfortunately, I cannot reply to the previous post in comments however, I read some very misinformed comments. yes, book bans are going on.

No children do not need to be protected as certain groups of people lead you to believe.

Inclusion has been taking place in schools since 1993 in some states.

if one read their history, they would know that Hi**er used school education to hurt groups of people. He knew education was the way to do this.

there’s no debate

Moms for Liberty lobbies for book bans and aims to dictate how history is taught, stripping it of any mention of slavery, racism, and LGBTQ people. The group got its start fighting mask mandates and the teaching of critical race theory. It spreads anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, falsely labels LGBTQ people as “groomers,” and led Florida’s hateful campaign against LGBTQ teachers. It openly harasses transgender and nonbinary young people and their families, advocating new laws and policies to restrict their lives and freedoms.

The group claims an affinity with America’s founding, yet they have failed this test in historical symbolism. Revolutionary Philadelphia was at the forefront of scientific inquiry, education, publishing, medicine, and government — all things that Moms for Liberty lobbies against.

Moms for Liberty is fighting to strip LGBTQ people of our place in the nation’s past — and by extension, the nation’s present and future. It doesn’t want you to know that we have played a part in every era of American history. People in early America experienced same-sex love and relationships, expressed themselves through drag, and changed their gender identity. Newspapers provide a crucial source for evidence of this often-hidden aspect of the past.

How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right

The term is meant to denote an attentiveness to important issues. But the likes of Laurence Fox and Toby Young have begun using it in a very different way
Steve Rose

Tue 21 Jan 2020 02.00 EST

Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.

Laurence Fox nailed his colours to the latter mast this weekend, doubling down on his defence of the privileged white male on last week’s Question Time to a Sunday Times article under the banner “Why I won’t date ‘woke’ women”.

Toby Young piled in, applauding how Fox was “terrorising the Wokerati”, while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan “the oppressive King and Queen of Woke”.

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For those who would broadly consider themselves woke, the word has been weaponised against them.
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But the Fox/Young brigade often claim the same.

The origins of woke, in this context – as forged by African American communities – dates back at least to the 60s, but its mainstream ubiquity is a recent development.

Fuelled by black musicians, social media and the movement, the term entered the Oxford English Dictionary only in 2017, by which time it had become as much a fashionable buzzword as a set of values.

Some of those who didn’t keep up with the trend felt left behind: if you didn’t know the meaning of woke, you weren’t.

Rather than rejecting the concept of wokeness outright, today’s detractors often claim they are rejecting the word as a signifier of pretentiousness

The language has been successfully co-opted – but as long as the underlying injustices remain, new words will emerge to describe them.

06/24/2024

Not cool history from History Cool Kids (it is important to know what has happened, if you want to know what is happening now and what is likely to happen in the future)

A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India

06/24/2024

THICH NHAT HANH HAD BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS!!!!

06/23/2024

What would an unsurpassed, incomparable, fully and perfectly enlightened Buddha do?

11/19/2023

JULY 21, 2022 11:01 AM EDT

As early as 2004, scientists found levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, a probable carcinogen known as PCBs, seven times higher in farmed Atlantic salmon than in wild salmon. More recent studies found high levels of other chemicals and antibiotics in farmed salmon. Researchers at Arizona State University discovered increases in drug-resistant antibiotics in farmed seafood over the past 30 years, leading to concerns about increased risk of antibiotic resistance in humans. Toxins often wind up in salmon flesh and accumulate in people who eat the fish.

Some studies warn that a single meal per month of farmed Atlantic salmon can expose consumers to contaminant levels exceeding standards from the World Health Organization. The risk is greatest for infants, children, and pregnant women because of the potential harm from contaminants to developing brains.

Seafood Watch, an independent guide to fish consumption affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, recommends avoiding most farmed Atlantic salmon because of excessive chemical use and disease. Nutritionists generally recommend eating wild salmon over farmed salmon.

Second, is farmed salmon sustainable?

Salmon farmers often advertise their fish as sustainable and naturally raised. These assertions are deceptive.

Salmon are carnivores. Fish meal and fish oil from anchovies, sardines, mackerel, herring, and other small forage fish comprise 25 to 30 percent of most salmon feed. Fully a quarter of the fish harvested from the world’s oceans winds up in feed for aquaculture and pets. To meet growing global demand for salmon, huge trawlers pillage the fisheries off the coast of West Africa and Peru, robbing subsistence fishers of their livelihood and increasing food insecurity.

“You take the food from the plates of people in West Africa to feed the people of Europe and the United States and other countries,” Dr. Ibrahima Cisse of Greenpeace told us.

Salmon farmers argue that they fill the need for protein as the global population grows. Depleting fisheries in low-income countries to provide an unsustainable fish for richer countries sets a dangerous precedent.

Efforts to develop alternative protein sources are under way in university laboratories and start-ups. So far, there is no end in sight for the industry’s exploitation of small fish.

Recent court cases have challenged the industry’s sustainability claims. Norway’s Mowi ASA, the world’s largest salmon farmer, settled a deceptive advertising case in federal court in New York City a year ago. The company paid $1.3 million and agreed its U.S. subsidiaries would stop using the phrases “sustainably sourced” and “naturally raised” to describe its smoked salmon.

Finally, are farmed salmon raised naturally in ways that do not harm the environment?

You be the judge.

https://time.com/6199237/is-farmed-salmon-healthy-sustainable/ #

Farmed Atlantic salmon is most popular fish on dinner tables in North America. But at what cost?