HBC Buddhism and Race Conference
Harvard Buddhist Community recording of a conference on Race and Racism within a Buddhist context. Great discussion, please watch! Advertisements
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Millbrook First Nation Water Symposium
‘Mother Earth has been crying out and nobody has been listening’ By Elizabeth McMillan, CBC News Posted: Oct 11, 2016 11:00 AM AT Rosalie Labillois, 19, is taking part in the Mi’kmaki Water Symposium in Millbrook First Nation, N.S. (CBC) Rosalie Labillois is taking a few days off from her studies at St. Thomas University to learn from… Read More Millbrook First Nation Water Symposium
Baltimore School Replaces Detention with Meditation and Yoga
September 22, 2016 By James Gaines This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning. Imagine you’re working at a school and one of the kids is starting to act up. What do you do? Traditionally, the answer would be to give the unruly kid detention or suspension. But in my memory, detention tended to involve… Read More Baltimore School Replaces Detention with Meditation and Yoga
Healing from Toxic Whiteness Workshop
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
Sandra Kim: Compassionate Activism
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
Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities Part 1
A Five-Part Series on Sexual Exploitation in Buddhist Communities. Part 1: BPF Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities Link to original article in BPF Turning Wheel Media: http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/rising-up-to-end-sexual-abuse-in-buddhist-communities/ Video Transcript Happy Valentine’s Day BPFers! I’m heading out today to join up with One Billion Rising, a movement to recognize that over 1 billion women and girls… Read More Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities Part 1
Hartz: Some Notes On Buddhist & Marxist Dialectics
Today I am very glad to introduce Jim Hartz as a regular contributor to Engage! Jim is an author, teacher and lifelong student of Chögyam Trungpa. Jim teaches ‘Buddhism without Credentials’ classes around the US. He is also a very deep and critical thinker on the subjects of spirituality and materialism. We present his first… Read More Hartz: Some Notes On Buddhist & Marxist Dialectics
