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      Radical Dharma – “the book for right now” is igniting conversations to radically transform how race is navigated in dharma, yoga, activist, faith communities and more

      Being Black – Reaching it’s 20th year anniversary for 2020, Rev. angel’s first critically-acclaimed book was called “a classic” by Buddhist pioneer Jack Kornfield and “an act of love” by iconic writer Alice Walker. 

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“love and justice are not two. without inner change, there can be no outer change; without collective change, no change matters.”

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  • audio / featured / podcasts15 December 2020
    Transformative Change T1500 Angel Editedangel Kyodo Williams Sensei, is an author, maverick spiritual teacher, master trainer, and founder of Center for Transformative Change. She has been bridging the …...Read more...
  • featured10 December 2020
    Summer Of PeaceIn a FREE online summit, from September 8-10, angel and other peacebuilders teach you how your practice strengthens the revolution that is subtle activism...Read more...
  • audio / featured / podcasts / wisdom11 November 2020
    Prophetic Wisdom StrategyI’d like to focus on what matters —which is to have a site on which people can find relatively current information which doesn’t mean that past information cannot be found unless it is overtly detrimental — and not let the details become the devil....Read more...
  • audio / featured / podcasts / wisdom11 October 2020
    Wisdom Speed Round with Reverend angel Kyodo Williams and Colleen Saidman YeeWisdom Speed Round with Colleen Saidman Yee: 10 reflections and action points to uncover joy and realize that you are enough from the last 9 podcasts....Read more...
  • audio / featured / podcasts / wisdom15 September 2020
    Untangle: Reverend Angel on How These Crazy Times Can Make Us Better HumansReverend Angel has extraordinary and actionable insights on how to stay grounded and sane through these trying times, and transform ourselves for the better as the world around us transforms. She is an activist, a Zen Buddhist priest, and the second only Black woman to be ordained as a Zen Buddhist teacher. She shares powerful techniques to find liberation, identify what matters, and use the pandemic and this unprecedented time as a powerful tool for personal growth....Read more...
  • audio / featured / podcasts / wisdom14 September 2020
    Living the Questions: Why 2020 Hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surpriseA companion conversation the On Being episode that has been re-aired for a third time — Krista catches up with Rev. angel Kyodo williams on how she’s keeping her fearlessness alive through pandemic and rupture....Read more...
  • featured / justice / talks / video19 December 2019
    Unlearning The Ways of The System – All Saints Church SermonIn a Sunday Sermon offered at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA, Rev. angel shares a little-known and surprising piece of history in the 400th year anniversary of African people’s being enslaved in what became the United States....Read more...
  • audio / featured / justice / podcasts2 November 2019
    Black Girl In OmJoin in for this conversation, shared with Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash, Art Director, Deun Ivory, and the members of the Wellspring audience. Nearly everyone present for this conversation left feeling ready to really embrace liberation in their lives. As you do the same in yours, we know these words from Rev. angel Kyodo Williams will serve as a reminder to always do so with love....Read more...
  • audio / featured / podcasts / wisdom18 September 2019
    Loving, Living, Learning: A Liberated Life TalkRev. Angel Kyodo Williams is going to touch so many of you with affirmations, advice, and real talk. Join in for this conversation, shared with Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash, Art Director, Deun Ivory, and the members of the Wellspring audience. Nearly everyone present for this conversation left feeling ready to really embrace liberation in their lives. As you do the same in yours, we know these words from Rev. angel Kyodo williams will serve as a reminder to always do so with love....Read more...
  • audio / featured / interviews / podcasts7 February 2019
    Radical Dharma: Emergence Magazine InterviewIn this in-depth interview with Emergence Magazine, Reverend angel Kyodo Williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical Dharma—a path to individual and collective liberation....Read more...

Wisdom

“I teach only liberation and the path to liberation.”

Formally trained in the Zen tradition, angel’s teaching uses a lens of spirit and dharma to transcend boundaries of faith, color, and class.

WISDOM
  • Unlearning the Ways of the SystemUnlearning the Ways of the System
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  • Rev.williams -Pt1Rev.williams -Pt1
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  • Berkeley Shambhala Dharma TalkBerkeley Shambhala Dharma Talk
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  • BZC (1)BZC (1)
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  • Facing Those Scary PlacesFacing Those Scary Places
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  • Prophetic Wisdom StrategyProphetic Wisdom Strategy
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  • Wisdom Speed Round with Reverend angel Kyodo Williams and Colleen Saidman YeeWisdom Speed Round with Reverend angel Kyodo Williams and Colleen Saidman Yee
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  • Untangle: Reverend Angel on How These Crazy Times Can Make Us Better HumansUntangle: Reverend Angel on How These Crazy Times Can Make Us Better Humans
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  • Living the Questions: Why 2020 Hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surpriseLiving the Questions: Why 2020 Hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surprise
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  • The World is Our Field of Practice — On Being w/ Krista TippettThe World is Our Field of Practice — On Being w/ Krista Tippett
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Radical Dharma: Talking Race Love and Liberation

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Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening.

angel Kyodo williams, Jasmine Syedullah and Rod Owens

Radical Dharma is both radical … and courageous. The authors build upon the growing understanding of the connection between personal and societal liberation. Radical Dharma unflinchingly turns this lens to this most challenging and critical nexus of racism and white supremacy…Take the invitation!

Robert Gass
Co-founder, Rockwood Leadership Institute and Social Transformation Project

Radical Dharma is a powerful and vulnerable circle held by three Dharma practitioners who are people of color. It is a beautiful and rare invitation to listen to how each transformed their pain. Some of this is familiar…and some of this, for white people, will be new: What does it look like to truly sit with the pain caused by racism in your body? Radical Dharma demands that we step into the circle and ask: How do we restore our humanity? How do we transform ourselves and the world?

Marianne Manilov
Co-Founder, Engage Network

Radical Dharma is a clear, honest testimony of the heart from three leaders of our time. You may not always see things just as they do (I didn’t) or even feel like you fully understand it all (again, I didn’t) but that makes it even more important to read.

Sharon Salzberg
Buddhist Teacher and Author

It is rather astonishing that the Black tradition of continuous and endless enlightenment in this country produces its prophets as if bad laws, discrimination, horrors of financial inequality and so on, do not exist to blight the way.

Alice Walker
American Novelist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

Justice

“Love and justice are not two.”

How you can actually have that show up in the worldis the tricky part. And it matters.

JUSTICE
  • Unlearning The Ways of The System – All Saints Church SermonUnlearning The Ways of The System – All Saints Church Sermon
    featured / justice / talks / video
  • Bioneers: Leadership ChallengesBioneers: Leadership Challenges
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  • Bioneers: Obama – Significant Act of LeadershipBioneers: Obama – Significant Act of Leadership
    justice / video
  • Lama Rod Owens and angel Kyodo williams Discuss Racism in Buddhist AmericaLama Rod Owens and angel Kyodo williams Discuss Racism in Buddhist America
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  • Troubling Prognosis: Race Disparities And Health OutcomesTroubling Prognosis: Race Disparities And Health Outcomes
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  • Introduction to Mindfulness for Activists with angel Kyodo williamsIntroduction to Mindfulness for Activists with angel Kyodo williams
    justice / video
  • It’s Not About Love After All – TEDx WashingtonSquareIt’s Not About Love After All – TEDx WashingtonSquare
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  • Rev. angel Kyodo Williams: Liberation Through Radical DharmaRev. angel Kyodo Williams: Liberation Through Radical Dharma
    audio / justice / podcasts
  • Revolutionary Love Conference 2018: Rev. angel and Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown DouglasRevolutionary Love Conference 2018: Rev. angel and Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
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  • Black Girl In OmBlack Girl In Om
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Planet

“How we treat our planet is rooted in how we treat people in our society.”

Our ecosphere is critical. Rev. angel speaks into the relationship between our social disconnect and how we treat this great planet we all inhabit together.

PLANET
  • Power & Heart: Black and Buddhist in AmericaPower & Heart: Black and Buddhist in America
    interviews / wisdom
  • Radical Dharma: Emergence Magazine InterviewRadical Dharma: Emergence Magazine Interview
    audio / featured / interviews / podcasts
  • Black Queer Buddhist Teacher Leading An AwakeningBlack Queer Buddhist Teacher Leading An Awakening
    articles / featured / interviews / justice
  • An Unprecedented OpportunityAn Unprecedented Opportunity
    interviews / wisdom
  • Inhabiting Multiple SpacesInhabiting Multiple Spaces
    interviews / justice
  • Beyond Privilege: a Q&A with angel Kyodo williamsBeyond Privilege: a Q&A with angel Kyodo williams
    interviews / justice
  • 15 Years Later: American Buddhism & Diversity15 Years Later: American Buddhism & Diversity
    interviews / wisdom
  • Self-care For ActivistsSelf-care For Activists
    interviews / justice
  • Threading Anger Through Love — Interview with OmegaThreading Anger Through Love — Interview with Omega
    interviews / justice
  • How To Lead Like a Spiritual Warrior – interview with OmegaHow To Lead Like a Spiritual Warrior – interview with Omega
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