Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 10

renouncing the eating of animals

The question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we say no to? If we don't say no to something that systematically abuses 50 billion animals, if we don't say no to the number-one cause of global warming, and not by a little bit, but by a lot, if we don't say no to what the UN has said is one of the top two or three causes of every significant environmental problem in the world, locally and

The question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we s...

The question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we say no to? If we don't say no to something that systematically abuses 50 billion animals, if we don't say no to the number-one cause of global warming, and not by a little bit, but by a lot, if we don't say no to what the UN has said is one of the top two or three causes of every significant environmental problem in the world, locally and

vijaṭeti

to disentangle, untangle, disembroil, unravel

"to make a habit of empathy"

Diwali falls on November 5 this year.

cooper's hawk on bough above garage

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working from home when sick

Is there a political ecology of laughter?

Or more interestingly: "What Bennett's theories about the way human agency is really composed of a plethora of non-human agencies is that it provides us a way of theory comes closest to reformulating the nature of laughter as"
My poor students. 
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radiolab on interspecies empathy

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Okay, this is amazing. Good to listen to at the beginning of World Vegan Month. Make yourself a cup of tea and set aside an hour.

tarati

"to cross [a river], to surmount, overcome [the great flood of life, desire, ignorance]

to get to the other side, to cross over, as in crossing the ocean of suffering"

the pleasures of kindness

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"no one gets to sit and just comprehend"

"for the sake of seeing human death"