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Why Dharma.direct?

Between 2011 and 2019, the social network google+ hosted several Buddhist teachers, and from 2013 onward several ‘communities’. In particular, two of the latter —“Buddhism and Meditation” and “Buddhism Q&A”— were instrumental in supporting practitioners, thanks to a variety of posts about the Dharma, thanks to supportive friendships (kalyāṇa-mittatā) and thanks to the availability of diverse, accessible senior practitioners and teachers. When Google announced the end of google+, the lead-moderator ran several polls to discern what the communities wanted: • a majority of voters wished for us to have their own platform, i.e. to find a way to maintain the communities; • a majority of voters wanted to maintain the presence on google+ until the official end date, which had the benefit to give some time to find/build a new platform; • conditional on who the authors might be, a majority of voters would consider subscribing to an online magazine, and/or a newsletter; • so… a project was proposed, approved by a majority of voters, then worked upon… turning the project into reality since: Dharma.direct is the result.

Dharma.direct aims to propose an online Buddhist magazine, an associated newsletter, as well as the ‘safe space’ and communication tools to support transmission, friendship and debates between practitioners… including direct access to more experienced followers of the Eightfold Path.

With strong emphasis on privacy, transparency, and ethical speech (rejecting the fashionable confusion between “free speech” and a carte blanche for irresponsible, unfettered abuse), Dharma.direct's editorial strategy favours original content, from authors ready to engage online with their readers. Availability (to provide clarifications, to dispel confusions, to discuss, to accompany) is preferred over celebrity status. Most magazines that currently exist do not provide direct access to their authors: they offer a form of one-way communication —with ‘celebrities’ pushing their ‘truths’ and other announcements (for their next book or retreat) onto the audience,— the readers ‘buy’ a finished product and “celebrity sells”. Dharma.direct is about interaction, conversations: the articles are the starting-point, some food for the journey, not final deliverables!

In accordance with the Buddhist tradition, the project as well as the authors are funded by dāna (donations), rather than by advertising or by selling your data to behemoths prone to mass surveillance through innumerable trackers.