Meet a Sangha: Israeli Engaged Dharma / Tricycle Spring 2018

03/03/2019

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..."

BUDDHISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

EXCERPT FROM Buddhism and Social Justice (2014) by Colin Butler, Associate Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health College of Medicine Biology and Environment Australian University Buddhism is primarily a contemplative religion. Nevertheless, from its earliest times there has been a strong social justice ethic, born from the fundamental principle of compassionate action. According to the Buddha, as human beings we make choices (karma) that have consequences. If these

Passing through Qalandiya / November 5, 2019

Passing through Qalandiya / November 5, 2019 Hello dear friends— Bob and I decided to go into the old city of Jerusalem yesterday. Because Yasser and his cousin, Lama, were both at work we went via the bus system. From Al-Ram, where Yasser and Lama live, there is no route to Jerusalem without having to pass through the Israeli military checkpoint located near the Qalandiya refugee camp, a well-known center of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation. The distance between Al-Ram

From heat waves to 'eco-apartheid': Climate change in Israel-Palestine

“We believe that when the environment is harmed, people are harmed, and those who are most at risk are the poorest segments of society and the poorest countries. Our struggle must be regional, and of course it must be a Jewish-Arab struggle.” Ilay Abramovitch, an activist in Standing Together https://972mag.com/climate-change-israel-palestine/142669/ July 2019 was, according to European climate researchers, the hottest month ever recorded. Coming just one year after the UN’s

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