This video is part of the second annual Awake in the World conference, which features over 40 inspiring thought leaders, wisdom holders, and social visionaries discussing practical teachings for living a more mindful and purposeful life.
Beyond Buddhism: What We Need to Lose To Save What We Love
Rev. angel Kyodo Williams delivers a stirring case for why westerners being attached to “being Buddhist” may be the most detrimental stance the hinders the good intention people have for aligning with Buddhist values.
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams at Wisdom in Action
Studying dharma is good Practicing dharma is essential. Embodying the Dharma is profound. Two obstacles hamper most forms of modern practice: they use mental frameworks to address habits, patterns, and behaviors that are deeply held in the body, and the information is accessed in an environment (on the cushion), unlike the situations we encounter. As a result, we often find it difficult to translate our best intentions into our lives.
New Year’s Reflection w/ Lion’s Roar
In this video, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams shares how we can set the intention to show up for ourselves and the world
Power & Heart: Black and Buddhist in America
At the first-ever gathering of Buddhist teachers of black African descent, held at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, two panels of leading Buddhist teachers took questions about what it means to be a black Buddhist in America today.
What Radical Dharma Means
“I’m dedicated to promoting what the Buddha was dedicated to promoting, which is liberation,” says Rev. angel Kyodo Williams. The root of radical is “radix” and that means a whole or complete, and dharma of course has many different inflections, I would say, rather than interpretations, and one of those is amongst others is truth.
Mindfully Together
angel Kyodo Williams is an American writer, ordained Zen priest, and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, published by Viking Press in 2000.
This April, Reverend angel Kyodo Williams spoke at Naropa’s Authentic Leadership Center as part of their Mindfulness in the Workplace Series. Williams has been called “the most vocal and intriguing African-American Buddhist in America.” Following are some excerpts of her talk and conversation with the audience.
Your Liberation Is On The Line
“No one who has ever touched liberation could possibly want anything other than liberation for everyone,” says Rev. angel Kyodo Williams. She shares why we must each fully commit to our own path to liberation, for the benefit of all.”
Threading Our Emotions With Love: Healthy Relationships to Anger
How can we practice shifting anger from a destructive to a generative force? The Zen teacher, activist, and author angel Kyodo Williams describe healthy relationships to anger and the historical context of inequality for some communities. Anger is capable of pointing us back to love. It arises as a result of an offense to what we love. If we can use anger to reconnect to love, then that anger—the response that we have to injustice, pain, and suffering in the world—can be a generative force rather than a destructive one.
Social Justice & Buddhism (excerpt from Radical Dharma w/ Omega)
Western Buddhists often practice mindfulness and self-awareness. In this excerpt from Radical Dharma, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams urges us to align our practice with our actions in the world. 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;
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