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

I went to see Krishna Das and the Kirtan Wallah tour at St. Mary’s University yesterday. It was a thrilling musical and spiritual event. At the start of the concert, tears welled up and I started to cry. So that was completely unexpected. I cried through the first two kirtans. I thought I would cry through the whole… Read More Krishna Das Comes to Halifax

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

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

The Whole Earth is My True Body: Buddhists March in Rome  for Climate Justice Thousands of faith-based and environmental activists descended on St. Peter’s Square last Sunday in Rome, showing strength in diversity in the wake of the Pope’s encyclical on climate change. Pope Francis welcomed the Una Terra, Una Famiglia (One Earth, One Family) marchers during… Read More Buddhists in Rome for Climate Justice

Ok, for all you “friends are empty forms” people, listen up. I’m going to start publishing a series on the REAL meaning of friendship in Buddhism. Let’e begin with the retreat on friendship by Kate Johnson, hosted by Tricycle. Please click through to Tricycle to engage with her teachings on friendship. Retreat Schedule: DATE TEACHING… Read More Friendships are the Whole of the Spiritual Life

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