portuguêsDharma Magazines
Someone asked me why I wouldn't subscribe to Tricycle magazine. Bottom-line, they are first and foremost journalists, not practitioners. Their refuge is provocative news, not benefit. Sometimes they publish stuff that, on my humble distorted afflictive emotion filtered view, violates precepts. Even so, sometimes there's good things there too.
Dharma Magazines are kind of the core of the Buddhist North-American Spiritual Supermarket. Samsara-dharma, political agitation in a bad sense, some sensationalism. It is both good and bad that it is not connected to any Dharma center, and sometimes the denunciations are valid. But there's also lots of empty polemics, things prepared to stir afflictive emotions, etc. Of course, also lots of good things.
Shambhala Sun would be my choice of "dharma magazine". Even though it is too far from perfect. I would stick with oral teachings, and good well recommended Dharma Books in second place.
TRICYCLEMeditation, According to Stock Photography
Unreliable meditator Brent R. Oliver explores an unreliable source.
Current AffairsCorporate “Mindfulness” Programs Are an Abomination
“When the individualized self bears sole responsibility for its happiness and emotional wellbeing, failure is synonymous with failure of the self, not external conditions.” — Ron Purser
tzal.orgSlavoj Žižek: Hipster Quackery
How substantial are Slavoj Žižek’s criticisms of Buddhism? Is there more to this prominent public intellectual’s counterintuitive--yet consistently entertaining--ramblings than mere showmanship?
AeonNot your Tibetan Buddhism
Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see?
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