Ethan Nichtern: August 2009 Archives
Monday August 31, 2009
Categories: Arts and Media, Buddhism
Best Buddhism and Meditation Website...Ever!
Well, of course that's sort of a silly thing to say. That's like saying Buddhism is the World's Best Religion. Who would ever make such a claim? But the new Interdependence Project website is pretty great. Lots to check out about Buddhism, meditation, integral activism, mindful arts, and our great Buddhism podcast and videos, and of course, links to the One City Blog on Beliefnet. This definitely isn't your grandma's Buddhist website (how much is wrong with that statement?). Check it out, and get on our email list. Oh, and if you like our blog and organization, consider making a donation, because we haven't quite finished paying for it yet. Stay tuned for more...
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Categories: Buddhism, Interdependent Activism & Politics
Bill Moyers, Bill Maher, And Pema Chodron: Health Care Reform
Below is a video from Real Time with Bill Maher, where journalist Bill Moyers sends a great message to President Obama on standing up for change, and brilliantly diagnoses what's wrong with our political system, and especially, the non-progressives in the Democratic Party. Again, I think it is very important to realize that the United States an utter anomaly in the world of Capitalist Democracies, the only major country that has so far failed to see health care reform as an issue in the universal public interest. I don't get it? Why isn't America a place where we take care of each other?
Thursday August 27, 2009
Health Care Reform: An Animated Video That Breaks It Down
Wednesday August 26, 2009
Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics
The Third Kennedy Brother: Best Memorial (So Far) by Joe Biden
Vice President Joe Biden crying while speaking of the third and last of the Kennedy Brothers. My favorite memorial thoughts so far. I do hope they follow Robert Byrd's advice and name the health care bill after Kennedy, complete with a strong public option.
Sunday August 23, 2009
Categories: Arts and Media, Buddhism
Constant Immigrant: District 9 Review and The Lazarus Project
This week I had the opportunity to read and see two radically different narratives about the traumas of immigration, and I thought I'd offer each a short review: the movie was District 9 by South African Neil Blomkamp and the novel was The Lazarus Project by Bosnian American Aleksandar Hemon.
Thursday August 20, 2009
Categories: Buddhism
Young. Black. Buddhist. Woman... In Kansas?
This is a guest post for the One City Blog. -----Evelyn Cash is a Soto Zen and Vipassana meditation practitioner living in Wichita, Kansas. She works as an engineer. -----No matter how you slice it, I am definitely in the...
Tuesday August 11, 2009
Categories: Buddhism
Secularizing Buddhism--Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots?
A Guest Post for the One City Blog by Vince Horn of Buddhist Geeks (Full Bio Below). It's a very common and hip thing today to want to make Buddhism secular. Many very worthwhile organizations and movements have this as their guiding...
Tuesday August 11, 2009
Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics
Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced to 3 More Years
Burma's fake leaders had Burma's rightful leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, sentenced to three more years in prison. At least the sentence was commuted to more house arrest. Damn. I hope Obama makes a statement about this. But he might...
Sunday August 9, 2009
Categories: Interdependent Activism & Politics
Taking Climate Change Seriously
A growing number of policy makers are starting to consider Global Warming and Climate Change nothing less than a national security threat, according to an article in the New York Times today.(photo from unicef.org)...
Filed Under: climate change, fear, global warming, local food, national security threat, obama born here, refugees
Wednesday August 5, 2009
Categories: Buddhism, Right Lifestyle
Buddhist Meditation, Global Warming, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
How can mindful people do something about Global Warming and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? What does Buddhist Meditation have to do with healing the planet? Interdependence Project and One City's very own Jerry Kolber was published today over at...
Tuesday August 4, 2009
Categories: Arts and Media, Buddhism
The Sickest Buddhist (Video Removed), Lululemon and Spiritual Materialism: So Overrated
So Arj Barker of the great HBO show Flight of the Conchords (well, Season one was great at least) made this send-up of meditation students and people who practice yoga for all the wrong reasons. (UPDATE: The Video is now...
Sunday August 2, 2009
Categories: Buddhism, Interdependent Activism & Politics
Buddhism and the Environment: Is Mindfulness Meditation Enough?
I had the honor to be interviewed about Buddhism and Ecology by Rod Meade Sperry at the Shambhala Sun Blog last week. Check out the audio interview at the above hotlink. Also check out Rod's great website, The Worst Horse...
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Evelyn CashEvelyn is a Soto Zen practitioner and engineer living in Wichita, Kansas.
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Ethan NichternAuthor, founding director of the Interdependence Project, and the host of the I.D. Project’s popular weekly podcast
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Ellen ScordatoA business owner, editor, teacher, and board member of the Interdependence Project
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Jon RubinsteinJon writes about art and the media from a Buddhist perspective.
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Lodro RinzlerLodro Rinzler is a second-generation Shambhala Buddhist practitioner and teacher.
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