It’s Not Just About Fear, Bibi, It’s About Hopelessness

by Nomika Zion, with an introduction by Avishai Margalit The following statement was written during the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip in late November by Nomika Zion, a member of Migvan, an urban kibbutz in Sderot, the Israeli city about a mile from the Gaza Strip border that has been a primary target of rockets launched from Gaza since the second intifada started in...

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Bernie Glassman’s Boots-On-The-Ground-Secular Buddhism

“Who says you need robes and a bald head?” he asked. I was driving the much-beloved RoshiBernie Glassman from the airport, my Path-of-Service assignment as a resident at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, truck wheels hurling us through that impossibly blue horizon. We were heading north to a workshop he was teaching with a roster of neuroscientists and...

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Bernie’s Journey to Yonkers La Perla (Cigar Store)

  Video of Making a cigar: IMG_1232  

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Just My Opinion on Clubs-Bernie

Based on our experience of the oneness of life, we form clubs. So in politics there is a liberal club, a conservative club, a neoconservative club. There are all kinds of clubs. For our clubs we build fences to protect us. We invite certain people in and we ridicule others. We can look at that liberal group. They know they’ve got the answers. They know who doesn’t...

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An Evening with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: I Will Be Moderating “An Evening with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman” for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ [ALOUD] Series This January I’m very excited to tell you all that I will be moderating an upcoming event with Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, True Grit, Tron) and Zen master Bernie Glassman the...

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Forget outer heroes; bring out your innner ones Main

Originally posted by No Impact Man.   No Impact Man Runs For Office……..   Please check out my article on the Atlantic Monthly’s website about my activist run for Congress and how citizen politics can help do something about climate and other problems: My unlikely course in activist politicking started with a May call from a member of the...

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