by Infinite Smile | Dec 17, 2010 | Blog
Interesting Wikileaking from Huffington Post: NEW DELHI A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable says the Dalai Lama told American officials that the issue of Tibet’s political future should be temporarily shelved in favor of concerns over climate change. The cable sent...
by Infinite Smile | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog
I’m frequently asked how we can integrate the Dharma into something as “sticky” as the news, in general, and politics, specifically. On the one hand, non-attachment to what’s going on in the world is not so easy since the preferences that the...
by Infinite Smile | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog
Shambala Sun has a story on how Wikileaks has shed a little light on Bejing’s continued anger at the Dalai Lama’s presence on the global stage. While most of what we may learn about Tibet and its troubled relationship with China probably won’t be...
by Infinite Smile | Nov 15, 2010 | Blog
Fiat, using Manjushri’s sword and letting light in… The worsthorse also reports that the Dalai Lama is contributing his marketable image to Aung San Suu Kyi’s plight. All this amid the ending of her house arrest and subsequent release by Burmese...
by Infinite Smile | Jul 30, 2010 | Blog
Listening to Dr. Elke Fein talk about history from an integral perspective. She argues that collective traumatic experience has more of a social, cultural, and political development than we’ve imagined. This and how a society relates to its past work to...