Grand Chief Serge ‘Otsi’ Simon on NEB Review of Energy East Pipeline

In response to this NEB email of last week, please find below a message from the Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake addressed to all of the Indigenous intervenors in this NEB Energy East process. —- She:kon Nation leaders and representatives, I wanted to take this opportunity to reach out to… Read More Grand Chief Serge ‘Otsi’ Simon on NEB Review of Energy East Pipeline

White Awake: Waking up to Race

http://whiteawake.org/waking-up-to-race/ White Awake is a mindfulness-based program, founded by Eleanor Hancock, to become aware of racism and white privilege and become capable of dismantling racism. The following are the foundations of understanding white privilege and institutional racism. “When something has come to be, we have to acknowledge its presence and look deeply into its nature. When… Read More White Awake: Waking up to Race

Friendship: The Whole of the Spiritual Life, Pt. 2

The Whole of the Spiritual Life  Two nuns, Thubten Chodron and Ayya Tathaaloka, discuss the vital importance of friendship. Venerable Thubten Chodron (left) and Ayya Tathaaloka (right) speak at Sravasti Abbey in Newport, Washington. In the popular imagination the Buddhist monastic is solitary. Hours spent studying, chanting, and meditating leave scant time for that most… Read More Friendship: The Whole of the Spiritual Life, Pt. 2

Let’s Deal With It: An Open Letter to Buddhists on Racial Justice

To Buddhist Teachers, Monastics, Priests, Leaders, Ministers, Practitioners, and Clergy (you are invited to endorse this letter, below) As Buddhist teachers and leaders we are deeply shaken and saddened by the intentional and premeditated murder of nine worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. We send our heart-filled… Read More Let’s Deal With It: An Open Letter to Buddhists on Racial Justice