consumerism

Calmness as a revolutionary act

I came across this extract from "Reasons to Stay Alive" by Matt Haig this morning. I thought it was worth…

April 5, 2018

Archbishop of Canterbury: meditation is the key to living in this insane world

John Bingham, The Telegraph: Dr Rowan Williams said people in the modern world were struggling with “chaotic” emotions as a…

October 11, 2012

Zen and the art of protecting the planet

The Guardian, UK: It is not exactly a traditional Sunday stroll in the English countryside as 84-year-old Vietnamese zen master…

August 26, 2010

“To Buy Or Not To Buy,” by April Lane Benson, PhD

A new book offers help to those caught up in the painful compulsion to over-shop, from advice on how to…

June 24, 2009

Stop samsara, I want to get off!

Finding contentment in a materialistic world, or, how our author didn't buy an iPhone, and then did, and then didn't…

June 18, 2009

The Upper Middle Way – Have North American Buddhists renounced renunciation?

Historians of religion often repeat the accepted truth that it takes about two centuries for a culture to absorb a…

April 10, 2007