Registration is now open. First session on October 16. View this email in your browser Update on the EcoSattva Training Dear Community, We are reaching out today to give you a few updates on this fall’s EcoSattva Training. Whether you participated last year or this is your first time, we hope you’ll join us. Registration… Read More EcoSattva Training with Bikhu Bodhi
by Matthew O’Connell This episode tackles a complex but thoroughly important topic, namely non-Buddhism. A theoretical project/applied critique of Buddhism as ideology; as an unintentional prison. This work gets at the heart of what’s missing in Buddhism and Buddhist discourse; a failure to understand the collective formation of selves. Due to such, Buddhism operates at… Read More Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Non-Buddhism
Sandra Kim’s free online workshop on “Healing from Toxic Whiteness to Better Fight for Racial Justice” is based on her basic method for Compassionate Activism, modified and expanded for helping white people face their own internalized white supremacy, shame, guilt and defensiveness around racism. https://compassionateactivism.leadpages.co/9-15-workshop-replay/?mc_cid=5d1ad6d943&mc_eid=b2d54888de Healing from Toxic Whiteness Power Point presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2CkPqIYel5rZW9KeE1Vc2dIU1k/view Join the discussion… Read More Healing from Toxic Whiteness Workshop
DOUG SAUNDERS The Globe and Mail Where to find school bullies? Not where you might expect A few years ago, I found myself in the vice-principal’s office at a Toronto elementary school with a majority of recent immigrants and refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East in its student body. I was struck by… Read More Immigrant Schools: Less Bullying, Better Grades
This essay by George Lakoff is on the unconscious metaphors that shape political viewpoints. It would be interesting to conduct the same analysis of Buddhist metaphors and how they affect political thinking and action. Metaphor, Morality, and Politics Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust by George Lakoff © copyright George Lakoff 1995 http://www.wwcd.org/issues/Lakoff.html… Read More George Lakoff: Moral Metaphors
http://www.compassionateactivism.com/webinars In this webinar, Sandra Kim shares the most critical aspect of the Compassionate Activism model that teaches how to respond to everyday oppression with love and justice. You learn: The ways systemic oppression has taught us to deny and suppress our feelings and pain How to give our experiences as marginalized people the acknowledgement… Read More Sandra Kim: Compassionate Activism
Wow! that was quick. I already have the new revamped site up and running and I have forums running too. Let’s get interactive. I hope the forums will be a place where we can share our interests, passion, knowledge and experience with engaged Buddhism: politics and culture, social justice, spirituality and ecology, or whatever interests… Read More New! Interactive Forums at Engage!
