Meet a Sangha: Israeli Engaged Dharma / Tricycle Spring 2018

A Friend Is Moving to a Home Built on Palestinian Land. Is It Immoral to Help?

A Friend Is Moving to a Home Built on Palestinian Land. Is It Immoral to Help? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-a-friend-is-moving-to-a-home-built-on-palestinian-land-is-it-immoral-to-help-1.6981836 Should you help a good friend move to an illegal settlement home in the West Bank? Haaretz's ethical adviser has an answer. Yoana Gonen, Moral Minority Mar 02, 2019 3:52 PM A good friend of our son’s lives in the settlement of Eli. The friend is currently busy moving his family to a

The Shambhala Warrior: Using the Sword of Wisdom to Change the World

The Shambhala Warrior: Using the Sword of Wisdom to Change the World (Posted with permission from author) Excerpt from Stephen Fulder’s new book: ‘What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking up to This Precious Life’ .Watkins Publishing (2019) https://www.stephenfulder.com/ 'How do you rule an empire? Like you fry a small fish: lightly.' Taoist proverb When we grow psychologically and spiritually, when

A Buddhist Response to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

https://thanissaradharma.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/buddhist-response-to-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ The following is an excerpt of a post written by Thanissara on her WordPress blog site and dates back to October 17, 2016. "While a strong progressive Buddhist voice is emerging for climate and racial justice in the form of articles, petitions, activism, websites, social media, and trainings, for the most part Western Buddhist leadership [8] and Sanghas’ have remained silent..."

Treatment of Rohingya in Myanmar Challenges Western View of Buddhism

For many Americans, the image of Buddhism is that of monks wearing saffron-colored robes, meditating peacefully on windswept mountains, revering all forms of life while seeking higher states of enlightenment. In the context of such cliches, it has been jarring for many to see very different images coming out of Myanmar. Buddhist monks have been at the forefront of the violent repression of the Rohingya Muslim minority, which the United Nations has characterized as ethnic cleansing. More than

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

While we hear about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, do we know what these human rights are? 70 years after the declaration (December 10, 1948), the articles of the UDHR are as relevant as ever before. Review them below, make a pledge to uphold them & then click onto this link to take action. #standup4humanrights Universal Declaration of Human Rights Ratified as Resolution 217 by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 / Palais de Chaillot in

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Through a Glass, Darkly: Towards a Buddhist Perspective on Israel & Palestine

(Written in 2002 by Hozan Alan Senauke and offered by him for publishing here because it "... still, alas, seems relevant.") Each time I speak about the conflict in Israel and Palestine I seem to get it wrong. And silence will not do either. This is what Zen Buddhist practitioners call a koan. The challenge of a koan is to embody and present one’s truth in a way that is neither self-centered nor dualistic, even in the face of ambiguity. No koan could be more urgent than the mutual destruction

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Buddhist voices for a just peace in the Middle East

Matthew Abrahams interviews Aviv Tartarsky