Rev. angel Kyodo William talks about love and justice connecting to the Zen tradition. Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters. —Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Sensei
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Threading Anger Through Love — Interview with Omega
Rev. angel helps us understand that we don’t have ‘personal’ experiences because we’re all connected. So when yet another black child, teenager, or young person is killed, the response should be fierce. But if it’s rooted in love and that love is connected with a deep touching into our suffering, whatever the reaction, there’s no wish for the destruction of life or for the suffering of others. Love has a wish for the deconstruction of that which is false and that which harms. That’s the right place to go. Love never expresses itself as wishing harm.
How To Lead Like a Spiritual Warrior – interview with Omega
We all get handed these stories, right? Every one of us—we’re born into a family, a time, a region, a culture. We get handed a story about what we look like. As we express our capacities we get stories about whether we are more or less capable. Not only do we get individual stories, but we also get collective stories. We miss a great deal when we only pay attention to the story that’s been handed to us and we’re not intimately connected to the deeper story of who we really are—as Buddhists say before our mother was born. We come encoded with a deep memory of who we’ve always been but when we arrive on the scene our focus is turned toward the external. We forget we have that operating information about who we always are.
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Social Justice & Buddhism — an Interview with Omega Institute
Each community possesses, as Gandhi offered, a piece of the truth—of Dharma. When we seek the embodiment of these truths, giving ourselves permission to be more honest, more healed, more whole, more complete—when we become radical—neither the path of solely inward-looking liberation nor the pursuit of an externalized social liberation prevails; rather a third space, as-yet-unknown, emerges. It is radical dharma. And it is ours.
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.
Love and Justice Are Not Two: Diversity & Inclusion in Sanghas — Rock Blossom Sangha
Rev. angel visits a sangha from the Mindfulness Community of Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition as they grapple with what diversity and inclusion look like in the face of a long history of white-led sanghas in the west.
Creating Enlightened Society: A Truly Intimate Idea
Short teaching by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams from the Creating Enlightened Society conference in Northern California the “Creating Enlightened Society” gathering hosted by the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham … Angel Kyodo Williams, Founder of the Center for Transformative Change; Jyoti, … Rev Angel Williams speaks of “a truly intimate idea”: …
Revolution In Review | A Year Of Change
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