Rev. angel Kyodo williams is one of the contributors in this video.
If Willard Had Won: on Safety, Wellness, and Love
On Wellness
Long ago, I took my personal wellness to account, holding the belief that wise practices would shield me from the health challenges of my family. But yoga, exercise, meditation, and a healthy diet couldn’t dodge the bullet of genetics. An at-times debilitating and recurring illness cast me into the pre-existing condition black hole of care.
For the past three years, I’ve had only the Hope of 2014 and its Affordable Care Act to cling to as a respite from the insult of insurance industry practices added to my unwanted injury. If Willard Had Won, I would have no guarantee that securing the health of its citizens matters in my own land.
Threading Anger Through Love w/ Omega – ESSAY
“We can’t keep going along and saying, we are collective, we’re connected, and then say, but individually they should do X, Y, and Z. You’re not an individual. No one’s an individual. We’re all active in the web of actions, reactions, and experience.”
— Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Sensei
Buddhist Statement on Racial Injustice
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. Our collective aspiration within the Buddhist traditions is to become truly inclusive and beloved communities. In this process, we are committed to honestly and bravely uncovering the ways we create separation and unintentionally replicate patterns of inequity and harm. In the same spirit, we are committed to engaging with other faith and social-justice groups in support of undoing racism throughout our society.
Everyday Zen For Inclusivity: Being Black
There is no doubt in my mind that Buddhism is a religion. It has rituals, traditions, schools, and hierarchical structures. However, Buddhist philosophy, in its purest form, is just a set of principles to help you become awake to the life that you have so that you can live it more completely. If we go back to the original ideas and strip away the extras, if we take the “ism” out of what a brother named Buddha taught, then it’s no more and no less than a way of planning your life.
Waking Up From the Mind of Whiteness
ego-mind is a construct that constantly reinforces itself, building structures & systems of control, and develops attitudes.–written as a comment in response to a white Buddhist practitioner’s inquiry about knowing when racism is present –aKw
I May Not Stay Here With You: Transmitting Dharma Beyond Race
Arising out of the cultural needs and priorities of seventh-century China, the Zen school places significant emphasis on mind-to-mind transmission. The transmission ceremony affirms one as a successor in a lineage reputed to be unbroken from the historic Buddha to Mahakashyapa in India, through to Bodhidharma and Huineng in China, to Dogen in Japan, and in my case, Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Bernie Glassman Roshi in America.
Commentary: I May Not Stay Here With You
Arising out of the cultural needs and priorities of seventh-century China, the Zen school places significant emphasis on mind-to-mind transmission. The transmission ceremony affirms one as a successor in a lineage reputed to be unbroken from the historic Buddha to Mahakashyapa in India, through to Bodhidharma and Huineng in China, to Dogen in Japan, and in my case, Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Bernie Glassman Roshi in America. One of the essential rites of this passage is to hand copy and receive back a stamped bloodline document that traces this lineage in a chart of swirling lines ending with your own name, effectively “sealing” one’s authentic place of belonging in this eighty-plus-generation family.
Where Leadership Lives
We exist in a time in which we are acutely aware of the need for leadership and yet despite the litany of blogs, the avalanche of articles, and the legions of training on leadership, our yearning for consistent, reliable, and plentiful leaders within progressive political and social movements is not quite fulfilled.
Love Letter To A President
Valentine’s Day is upon us, so it seems appropriate to reaffirm my love, most especially in those places in which I have been least clear. Since then, like many others, I’ve watched that hope wane under the most relentless onslaught of the political pounding of a President any of us has ever seen. Because I was so disappointed by the chasm between that hope and reality, I stopped professing my love.
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