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Monday, 14 July 2014

Buddhist Geeks in Los Angeles (InsightLA)

http://www.insightla.org/1620/mind-hacking-with-buddhist-geeks-emily-and-vincent-horn

Buddhist Geeks Conference 2014
Buddhist Geeks are excited to announce that their new workshop, "Mind Hacking," will be offered on August 2, 2014 from 10:00 am-1:00 pm at InsightLA in Santa Monica.
 
The workshop will be led by geeks, mind hackers, and Buddhist teachers Vincent Horn and Emily Horn.
 
Over the course of this 3-hour interactive workshop they plan to explore the basics of the hacking mindset as well as discussing four meditative skill-sets for hacking the mind, including:
  • Concentration Meditation
  • Investigation Meditation
  • Meditative Inquiry
  • Formless Awareness
During this time together all participants will be engaged in both silent meditation as well as a social form of mindfulness called "social noting." There will be plenty of time for fine-tuning and questions as all journey into a process of hacking the mind, awakening the heart, and rebooting the world.

25 Mildred Ave., Asheville, NC 28806

The opening keynote at the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2014 will be offered by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara. She will be joining Geeks in the exploration of convergence. She brings years of experience as both a teacher and practitioner of Zen Buddhism.

"She asks me, 'Why Zen?'
clear blue sky
sunlight dancing off the bare branches
sound of leaves
the little black-headed chickadee whistles
my life so clear, so direct
gratitude for this mind moment."
- from Roshi O'Hara's book: Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara received priest ordination from Maezumi Roshi and Dharma Transmission and Inka from Bernie Tetsugen Glassman. She founded Manhattan's Village Zendo, New York. 

Friday, 22 November 2013

Climate chaos in Warsaw, Poland (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; DemocracyNow.org, 19, 11-22-13
Flooding in Thailand was one dramatic byproduct of climate chaos (latimes.com)
 
Environmentalists walk out of U.N. talks
Pollution
"Carbon trading" is a false solution!
WARSAW - Negotiations at the U.N. climate summit COP 19 have entered their final scheduled day. Deep divisions remain between rich and poorer nations. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have been meeting for the past two weeks trying to lay the foundation for a new global climate treaty to be agreed on at talks scheduled for Paris in two years. Yesterday, more than 800 members of various environmental groups disgusted with the lack of progress staged an unprecedented walk out of the talks.
US says NO to reparations for damage
Questioned by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman hours later, the U.S. special envoy for climate change and lead climate negotiator, Todd Stern, rejected calls for reparations to poor countries damaged by the carbon [methane, and other] emissions of the world’s biggest polluters.

Somalia3What is the state of the talks? Guests Martin Khor, executive director of the South Centre, and Nitin Sethi, senior assistant editor at The Hindu discuss it. Sethi was responsible for leaking U.S. briefing papers on the climate negotiations before the summit began, revealing how U.S. negotiators at the climate talks are opposing efforts to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

Flood-india
US: We're not paying them damages!
According to the internal memo, the U.S. delegation is worried the talks in Warsaw will "focus increasingly on blame and liability" and that poor nations will be "seeking redress for climate damages from sea level rise, droughts, powerful storms, and other adverse impacts." More