Fierce Dandelions

A blog about the spiritual life and collective liberation.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

On Systemic Racism, White American Buddhism, and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

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Unless you've been totally asleep or hiding under a rock, you're probably aware of the unrest in Baltimore over the police murder o...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Mansplaining Away Rape Culture: Waylon Lewis' "Strange" Partial Defense of Yoga Guru Bikram Choudhury

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Waylon Lewis of the popular spiritual webzine Elephant Journal has a history of ... ahem ... troubling behavior. In 2011, I wrote a post ...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

We Are Becoming Strangers to Each Other

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The other day, I was on a bus heading to work. There was a guy sitting near me with his headphones turned all the way up. Across the aisle, ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Yoga Culture and the Biomedical Centric Narrative

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Having just completed this long response to a Facebook thread about yoga, the use of pharmaceuticals by yoga teachers, alternative medicine,...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

The spring breeze is our every breath

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The world before my eyes is wan and wasted, just like me. The earth is decrepit, the sky stormy, all the grass withered. No spring breeze ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Diving into Freedom

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One of the great temptations of human existence is to base your life on contingency. That you will actually take the courageous step once al...
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Notes on the Yoga Industrial Complex

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This article came across my blog feed a few days ago. I read it, found myself nodding in places, and also resonating with some points in th...
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is a writer interested in both the big questions of life and the everyday details. I am also a Zen meditation and yoga practitioner, herbalist, and teacher. If you'd like to contact me, my e-mail address is ngthompson04 at yahoo.com
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