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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..."

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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

The Buddhist Precepts-- An Introduction

O'Brien, Barbara. "The Buddhist Precepts." ThoughtCo, Dec. 7, 2018, thoughtco.com/the-buddhist-precepts-450107. Most religions have moral and ethical rules and commandments. Buddhism has Precepts, but it's important to understand that the Buddhist Precepts are not a list of rules to follow. In some religions, moral laws are believed to have come from God, and breaking those laws is a sin or transgression against God. But Buddhism doesn't have a God, and the Precepts are not commandments.

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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?

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

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