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Title/Date TagsSummary
Advanced MAWPism 5/10/18 MAWP
All, Nothing or .... 9/9/18 #P
Antisemitism Help 8/11/18 Antisemitism
Any Evidence?5/11/18 Discernment
Big Tent Dark Money Neoliberalism Here is a somewhat vitriolic .... description of Hillary’s Big Tent from Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report (11/8/16).
Bipartisan Conditioning#P ego politics So where does that leave the analysis of Ghion Journal? There have been many indicators of where this direction could be. We need to develop so that as activists we move beyond all conditioning developing minds that can discern truth, can move beyond the egoic battles that are enshrined in political melodrama but also move beyond the egoic battles that dominate our grassroots movements.
Bouncing off Brene26/1/19 #P Ego Vulnerability Brene Brown:- I started with listening to shame and went on to vulnerability .... let the ego be vulnerable and get rid of it; follow the path.
Censoring Facebook04/11/18 Media
Changing Demographics 3/12/18MAWP
Compassion, ego and NPC elections 11/11/18 Compassion Neoliberalism
Considering Arrogance4/2/19Path Ego MAWP #P There are only two things - path and ego; following the path or living in the conditioned ego. When the path talks the ego is threatened because it is so vulnerable.
DC Activism26/11/18 Compassion Activism
Decumulating Winona Laduke 9/12/18Decumulating Indigenous I like what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez .... Now listen to Winona .... it is Gaia.
Deep Conviction 9/9/18#P
Deep State31/8/18#P
The Democracy Illusion 27/12/18Gaia Neoliberalism We have never had democracy, what we have had is tribes with leaders and followers. .... End this delusion that we can play their game and get their power. It is the power of our love, our compassion that matters, ....
Derek Black - Compassion 20/9/18 Compassion alt-right
Discernment - Detoxing your Internet 25/10/18 Discernment Media
Dispatches miss issue7/1/19Gaia Indigenous the reporter completely missed the issue that is best understood by watching Earthlings .... subsisting primarily on plants, but those who did hunt did so sparingly and with care. A special bond existed between them and the animals
Dispossessed but true2/1/19dispossessed Gaia Recently I have recognised that I have been dispossessed of Gaia, .... not dispossessed of Gaia who have the wisdom that needs to be followed .... My path is true but transient
Dispossessed of Gaia-consciousness #P, 1%, mindful, Gaia, indigenous Be Gaia-conscious, always do the best you can. Don’t shame each other, but shame the 1%.
#endneoliberalism 7/9/18Neoliberalism
Fourth Way - Pathtivism Review 4/1/19Indigenous #P The Fourth Way is Empowerment and Constructive Development .... Suppose activists are now following the path, what will they do next? And the fourth way provides the answer
Gaia-conscious Buddhism Gaia Buddhism So whilst Buddhism is a Gaia-conscious religion/philosophy it has to be recognised that countries which are nominally Buddhist participate within the consumerist economic system .... However frustrating it is to see people inactive on the path it is their choice, their minds, their path – trust Gaia.
A Good Comrade 2/9/18#P
Have Buddhist Institutions become disengaged?26/1/19Buddhadasa Idappaccayata disengaged Over time some institutional practices have become disengaged, with Idappaccayata as benchmark and the Buddha’s compassion as guide isn’t it time to re-engage?
History Bias26/1/19 Indigenous Wisdom a sufficient basis for me to recognise that there is a substantial cultural bias in academic history.
How we investigate charities? 14/9/18 Media
The Imprisoning of Spirit 27/8/18 #P
Indigenous Fad?29/12/18Gaia Indigenous But when you think of the path and the need for change, .... there has to be Gaia .... for political leadership we don’t need ego we need people in harmony with Nature as a community
The Infrastructure of Trust26/1/19#P trust Trust as infrastructure is a socio-political answer, the path can provide this – and of course BRAVING can contribute
Insane Elite - Return to Indigenous 19/9/18 1% Indigenous
International Treaty15/1/19Indigenous Gaia For reference
Internet Censorship 04/11/18 Media
Is love the answer?27/1/19Love 1% Love and compassion are of course the answers, they are the only answers .... maybe they will understand why love, which has been the answer for millennia, has not been able to overcome the egos of the 1%, their power and influence, their instruments.
Is path revolutionary?24/2/19#p peace ego My point is not to belittle the emerging struggles of the wonder-kids, it is not to attack the comrades of my own generation and later who have fought, it is to recognise that the evil that we are fighting – the 1%-satrapy – is so strong.
Is the Political as Personal new? 1/9/18#P
Jonathan Cook Two Camps Neoliberalism
Jordan Peterson 14 -> 9/8/18 JP - Evaluation , Jordan's 12 Rules - 7 to 12 , JP accepts racism and sexism , Jordan's 12 Rules 1 to 6 , Ideas have no power , Jordan Peterson
Labour Institutions 26/8/18 Neoliberalism #P
Libertarianism 24/8/18Alt-right
Lokuttara - Beyond the World2/2/19 Buddhadasa engagement “And all four of these (levels – kama, rupa, arupa, nirodha) are natural – whether in the world or beyond the world, they are totally natural.”
LSE Coincidence 12/10/18 Alt-right
MAWPS Frustration and Facts 18/9/18 MAWP
Meditation, Sunnata and Gaia-consciousness11/1/19Meditation Buddhism Gaia Instead of visualising breathing in sunnata I visualise breathing in Gaia-consciousness, and this difference is very significant, the significance being the point of this blogpost – what I have written so far is meditational context.
Mindful Consuming21/12/18 Gaia, mindful Be Gaia-conscious, always do the best you can. Don’t shame each other, but shame the 1% - suggestions
Mindful Consuming, George 18/10/18 Mindful
Natural Duty of Activism 21/11/18Activism
Neoliberal Obama 4/8/18Neoliberalism
NOISE1/3/19#P detachment Detach from the NOISE, follow the path despite noisy appearances it is the only way.
Ocasio-Cortez 1/9/18 Neoliberalism Ego
On White Privilege 10/11/18 MAWP
Path of the Dispossessed#P Gaia Why did I have to go through an upheaval? I have no objections because following the path has been such a blessing but at the time
Pathtivism12/1/19#p There is only one activism. Going on your own journey, finding your path, sharing your path, and enabling others to follow their path.
A Perfunctory Defensive Vote03/11/18 Neoliberalism
Political becomes personal 31/8/18 #P
Political Fantasising 15/9/18
Progressive International 16/9/18 Neoliberalism
Search for African Indigenous Wisdom 5/1/19Indigenous I was not searching with an Indigenous lens and hence missed the remnants of Indigenous Wisdom that exist throughout black Africa
Spiritual Corruption 7/9/18
Spiritual Vulnerability #P vulnerability Use discernment and detachment to deal with this vulnerability, and then the path (and love) can provide what they are meant for - living bliss.
USING RAGE 23/8/18Neoliberalism
Wake-Up Call 31/10/18 Snowflakes
What does Pathtivism bring to the Struggle? 2/9/18 #P
White, European or .... dispossessed21/12/18 Indigenous Gaia #P Apart from indigenous cultures .... economic model of profit, accumulation and destruction of Gaia led by the neocolonialism of the white and European.
Wonderful Kids Ignored16/12/18 Gaia 1% COP 24 Greta Thunberg, COP 17 Anjali Appudurai, COP x Severn Suzuki

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