To see the Buddhanature in everyone, you have to see all the ways that people are awake; you have to see all the many ways that people can awaken: psychologically, socially, politically, culturally, spiritually. You can see all the ways people awaken to love, awaken to truth, to ultimate reality. You must see how people develop wisdom and compassion… Read More Not Buddha, Not Dharma

[This article was written by a member of Trans Buddhists (US), and myself, Shaun Bartone. Originally published at TransBuddhists.org] Trans Buddhists Urge Full Affirmation and Support for Trans/GNC Students: A Statement for Compassion and Justice transbuddhists April 3, 2017 Trans Buddhists Urge Full Affirmation and Support for Trans/GNC Students: A Statement for Compassion and Justice… Read More US Supreme Court Signals ‘Open Season’ on Trans Youth

Harvard Buddhist Community’s Third Annual Conference on Buddhism and Race, March 2017; three videos. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842059452675802%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Second Video https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842346985980382%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Third Video https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHarvardBuddhistCommunity%2Fvideos%2F1842386689309745%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Presenters include: rev. angel Kyodo Williams Lama Rod Owens Myokei Caine-Barrett Charles Hallisey Rebecca Li Jan Willis Janet Gyatso Melanie Cherng Kartina Richardson Greg Snyder Betty Burke Ericka Phillips

This Endless Nightmare Must Stop: Syrian Author Speaks Out as Chemical Attack Death Toll Rises The brutal war in Syria has been raging for six years, with dozens of chemical attacks on Syrian civilians by the Assad Regime and its allies, barrel bombs that have destroyed schools and hospitals, whole cities that have been destroyed,… Read More Syria: This Endless Nightmare Must Stop

Dear Readers: I am focusing the blog on these issues for a time because I want to show the deep interconnection between environmental justice and human rights There are a few Buddhist human rights organizations, such as Buddhist Peace Fellowship, which champion domestic human rights in the US, and cover climate issues, but they don’t… Read More Issue Focus: Climate Justice and Human Rights

This article by Afrosapiophile brings up an issue that I immediately connected with. It helped me identify a deep discomfort that I’ve had with white-majority western sanghas in North America. After a couple of years in various white majority sanghas, I felt totally repressed and oppressed every time I walked through the temple door. I… Read More Unbearable Whiteness of Being

[Editor: My friend, Pablo Das, has been active in the resistance to the Trump Regime, especially  in the fight to save the Affordable Care Act. Here as some of his thoughts on the practice of activism as a Buddhist.] A challenge to my fellow Buddhists: Today, with this healthcare victory, we see what compassion coupled… Read More Pablo Das: Fight on, Bodhisattvas!