Random Linkage: Full Contact Enlightenment

It’s time for some Random Linkage. Here are some of the things that have crossed my radar as being noteworthy, interesting and worth sharing with you, dear readers.

• Both Danny Fisher and Justin Whitaker posted the link to this petition created for the United Nations Day of Vesak (UNDV) to allow Ajahn Brahm’s gender equality paper in 2015. Please sign it if you are so inclined to do so. Also watch this video for more details as Ajahn Brahm recounts the story behind this event.

•  Cryptik Movement have posted a link to some incredible photos by Tomasz Gudzowaty of the Shaolin Temple. Breathtaking…

• NellaLou over at Smiling Buddha Cabaret has published two blog posts which you really do need to read. The first is a review of ‘The Promise of Happiness’ by Sara Ahmed and the second is a follow up to this titled ‘Further Comments on Happiness’.

On the [Western, convert] Buddhist happiness industry front we then get smarmy books about how to be a happy worker by adjusting ourselves to our oppressive conditions rather than overthrowing the bosses or making a stand for better working conditions or something else that would disrupt the status quo. The happiness industry is all about preserving that status quo. It’s not about “liberation” or anything else of that sort. It’s about being a better drone.

• Buddhism Secrets of Cats. Nothing more to add although I should really write a “Rebuttal from a Pug Butt” post given that I live with two furry Buddhas.
• And a little photo humour for the geeks…