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scholar of Buddhist studies, jogger, writer, sci-fi fan, meditator

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Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025) - New Books Network

check out this amazing NOTbook about Kabir and the shared consciousness (its relation to the Buddha) newbooksnetwork.com/the-notbook-...

05.11.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and the relational metaphysics in Buddhism and quantum physics, e.g. here, www.filosofia.studiumanistici.unina.it/wp-content/u... and here youtu.be/1WTshcvIWAU?...

20.10.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For all intents and purposes (the ecology) Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have had a major impact across a...

check out this amazing piece about Yogฤcฤra relational metaphysics, tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/01/f...

20.10.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Karmic pyschopolitics: May the friendliest thrive Life is precarious, more so for those who live in a neoliberal world. Byung-Chul Han names this lifeworld โ€œthe achievement societyโ€ and this neoliberal form of precarity โ€œpsychopolitics.โ€ As achieveme...

Very proud about this piece, please check it out, tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/15/k...

17.10.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
CFP> Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An online Conference, May 19-21, 2026 | H-Net There are two dominant streams for talking about reality in the history of metaphysical thought โ€“ substance and process. These two streams are noticeable in virtually all traditions but the former see...

Please check out this online conference. This is the first time we have scholars on African, Indigenous, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies together networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

05.10.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the exact right question if you ask me

25.09.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 501    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOEโ€™s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

25.09.2025 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How Pro-Social Technology Is Saving Democracy from โ€˜Big Techโ€™ with Audrey Tang | TGS 169
YouTube video by Nate Hagens How Pro-Social Technology Is Saving Democracy from โ€˜Big Techโ€™ with Audrey Tang | TGS 169

this talk makes me so hopeful, Audrey Tang on pro-social technologies and how to build up our democracy
youtu.be/aXgne-9F7uU?...

24.09.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp
YouTube video by Planet: Critical Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp

check out this amazing book talk, youtu.be/mMbtY4ljEMQ?...

24.09.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Eco-Islam When: September 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am โ€“ September 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm Where: Online Course This course will explore environmental stewardship within the Islamic tradition, emphasizing faith-inspi...

eco-islam, utsnyc.edu/blog/event/e...

13.09.2025 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Designs for the Pluriverse

and it resonates across cultures like design for pluriverse, www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-...

05.09.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Actualizing the Buddha ancestors: Buddhist historiography for the multiverse To speak of โ€œsystemicโ€ injustice is to acknowledge that large-scale practices and policies may generate inequitable outcomes regardless of the intentions of individuals. This is one rationale behind a...

the newest post on "karmic historiography" tif.ssrc.org/2025/09/03/a...

05.09.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"The view of a large group of people can change quickly, ... The abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the eight-hour working day, civil rights - all began with small groups of โ€˜unrealisticโ€™ radicals who refused to accept that things had to remain as they were."

24.08.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Won't Change The World Why Political Parties & Voting Doesnโ€™t Work

"But no-one ever asks us if we wanted to be ruled over, or if we wanted others to make laws which might threaten, fine or imprison us. We didnโ€™t vote for this situation, it was just the one we were born into, and its origins reveal this wasn't accidental."

24.08.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rima Vesely-Flad, "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation" (NYU Press, 2022) - New Books Network

check out my belated interview with Rima Vesely-Flad on her 2022 book, newbooksnetwork.com/black-buddhi...

23.08.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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About the Project - Genocide Gentry Educational and cultural institutions have granted prestigious positions to weapons manufacturersโ€™ executives and directors, entrusting them with tremendous influence over how institutions respondโ€”or ...

Silence is not an option.

We are not free until everyone is free. genocidegentry.org/about-the-pr...

07.08.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Karmic historiography A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationshipsโ€”especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisition...

American Karma! tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k...

07.08.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025) - New Books Network

Check out my NBN interview with Alexus McLeod on his new book on Martial arts and myth-making, newbooksnetwork.com/myth-and-ide...

10.07.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Juneteenth Reading List - AAR Some Suggested Titles from AAR's Reading Religion Reading Religionย is an openly accessible book review websiteย published by the American Academy of Religion. The site provides up-to-date coverage of s...

a juneteenth reading list aarweb.org/news/junetee...

19.06.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Engaging our Imagination with Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding | Contending Modernities How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?

true wisdom, contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

19.06.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza | Contending Modernities Jews must now tell a new story to answer the horrors that a Jewish country has perpetrated, argues Peter Beinart.

this new story needs courage, contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

19.06.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Open House Feedback Session | REI Governance and Membership Proposal We are seeking feedback from our individual members and groups within the network on the newly floated governance and membership proposal. Read it here. Register for this open session and ask us que...

actionnetwork.org/events/openh...

18.06.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network

check out my interview with Brook Ziporyn on his new book, Mystical Atheism, newbooksnetwork.com/experiments-...

16.06.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Breaking the Spell of Empire, Moving from Division to Coalition
The reckoning needed to dismantle the 500-year hallucination of settler-colonial capitalism, and why empire fractures us to prevent the coalitions that could end "

06.06.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Revolution in the Wings: Breaking the Spell of Empire Gaza, Global Capitalism, and the Sacred Duty of Collective Liberation

"Gaza is not an isolated atrocity, it is a mirror. It reflects, with devastating clarity, what the ruling class is willing to inflict on any population deemed disposable."
thanissara.substack.com/p/revolution...

06.06.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Gaza is not an isolated atrocity, it is a mirror. It reflects, with devastating clarity, what the ruling class is willing to inflict on any population deemed disposable."

06.06.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Gaza is not just a war zone. It is the most exposed nerve of empire, where settler colonialism, racial supremacy, surveillance capitalism, and militarized religious nationalism converge"

06.06.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this sentence haunts me "This is a karmic threshold for humanity."

06.06.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Keep Showing Up ยท Mobilize Weโ€™re taking a stand against this administrationโ€™s cruel, egregious attacks on so much thatโ€™s good and just in our country. We will keeping showing up to build community and defend our democracy, and ...

mobilize.us/s/6u7T0a

06.06.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ven. Chao-hwei Leads Historic Ordination in Taiwan, Sparking Debate on Monastic Gender Equality - Buddhistdoor Global The respected Taiwanese Buddhist monastic Ven. Shih Chao-hwei led a historic ordination in Taiwan when bhikshunis ordained male lay practitioner Deng Rong.

cheers, nuns ordain monks! as it should have been! www.buddhistdoor.net/news/ven-cha...

30.05.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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