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What a faux-spiritual Facebook page run by Kremlin propagandists can teach us about encountering our own biases and emotional reactions.
Buddhist leaders resign, Facebook changes its rules on “Buddhism,” and China denies a Tibetan activist’s appeal. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
A recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, has found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were in 1979, with the steepest decline coming in the last 10 years. From Keith O’Brien at the Boston Globe, “The empathy deficit: Even as they become […]
A 10-second history of the internet: First, there was a Big Bang (millions of individual little websites spewing out randomly into a vast virtual cosmos) followed by a Big Crunch (everybody slamming together onto social networking sites) then evolution (various websites fighting for survival and the top spot in a brutal Darwinian mess). In recent […]
In a recent Bearing Witness Blog post entitled 7 ways to use the internet to reduce suffering, Ari Pliskin lists seven important points that were explored during the Wisdom 2.0 summit that took place earlier this year. It is a very insightful, practical, and concise list and I recommend giving it a look. 1. Practice […]
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