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The McMindfulness Wars

What’s a psychotherapist to do?

By Ira Helderman | Illustrations by Matt Chase

Fall 2021

Trike Daily Society & Environment

From the Corner Office to the Forest

As CEO of Patagonia, Rose Marcario was living the dream of right livelihood. After a period of reflection, she quit to save the world.

By Daniel Burke

Jun 07, 2021

Magazine Society & Environment

Our World in the Wheel of Life

A social critique inspired by Buddhist cosmology

By Curtis White, Illustrations by BloodBros

Summer 2020

Justin von Budjoss on afforable retreats

Ask a Teacher

Justin von Bujdoss, a Buddhist teacher and the author of the upcoming Modern Tantric Buddhism, explains that retreats away aren’t necessary for spiritual development.

By Justin von Bujdoss

Fall 2019

Buddhism and the Market

How a Buddhist understanding of mutual debt can free us from the pressures of building and growing wealth

By Kurt Spellmeyer, Illustrations by Kara Pyle

Summer 2016

Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein on why only a mass movement can save us from ourselves

By Sam Mowe

Fall 2015

Star Wars, Virtual Capitalism, and Western Buddhism

What is Western Buddhism and why is it so damn popular—and important? Pop culture critical theorist Slavoj Žižek offers some possible answers in his article “Revenge of Global Finance” in In These Times. The article was published in 2005, but the bank failures of ’08 and the following recession have imbued the insights presented in the article with […]

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Nov 05, 2010

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Spending Wisely

Peter Alsop speaks with Allan Hunt Badiner

By Peter Alsop

Winter 2002

woman and child in a store where the child points to a buddha statue for story on the commodification of buddhism

Magazine

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The Commodification of Buddhism in the American Marketplace

Is consumerism the new American religion? Is the market itself determining not only the students, but the teachers of Buddhism?

By David Patt

Summer 2001

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capitalism

Magazine Meditation & Practice

The McMindfulness Wars

Trike Daily Society & Environment

From the Corner Office to the Forest

Magazine Society & Environment

Our World in the Wheel of Life

MagazineMeditation & Practice

Ask a Teacher

Magazine

Buddhism and the Market

MagazineSociety & Environment

Capitalism vs. the Climate

Trike DailyArts & Culture

Star Wars, Virtual Capitalism, and Western Buddhism

Magazine

Spending Wisely

Magazine

Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The Commodification of Buddhism in the American Marketplace