angel explains how threading your anger through love turns anger into a generative, beneficial force In this essay with Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rev. angel helps us understand that we don’t have ‘personal’ experiences because we’re all connected, and speaking to that fact will amount to nothing if our actions don’t reflect our connectedness. […]
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Buddhist Statement on Racial Injustice
Buddhist Statement on Racial Injustice -delivered to the White House by Buddhist teachers May 14, 2015 “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together.” – Lila Watson As Buddhist teachers and leaders we are […]
Waking Up From the Mind of Whiteness
“once you recognize that there is something else operating that is beyond your ordinary sight, don’t bother with the content. watch the pattern. the content is a distraction from you being able to see the vastness of the construct because if you could see it, it would begin to fail. PAY ATTENTION. this isn’t about […]
I May Not Stay Here With You: Transmitting Dharma Beyond Race
By the time this article reaches you, I will have been empowered as an independent teacher in the Zen tradition through a ceremony and process called dharma transmission. While Zen has flourished in the West long enough to bear witness to the passing of pioneering teachers who have, in turn, seeded a substantial network of […]
Commentary: I May Not Stay Here With You
By the time this article reaches you, I will have been empowered as an independent teacher in the Zen tradition through a ceremony and process called dharma transmission. While Zen has flourished in the West long enough to bear witness to the passing of pioneering teachers who have, in turn, seeded a substantial network of […]