Engaged Spirituality
On the spiritual path, we cannot separate our inner work from how we express ourselves in daily life. Engaged spirituality refers to the active engagement of our heart and awareness in service of the greater, collective good. It means responding to the crisis of climate change, to the suffering of racism and other forms of oppression and injustice, to economic inequality, to the violence between humans and against non-human animals. Ultimately engaged spirituality honors the intrinsic sacredness of all living beings.
Engaged Spirituality – Talks
Part 1 of 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us
A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves....
“Play a Greater Part” – Part 2 – Bodhisattva for Our Times
During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates...
“Play a Greater Part” – Part 1 – Bodhisattva for Our Times
During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates...
Mindfulness in Education: Enabling Children to Realize their Full Potential
This talk explores stress-related emotional suffering and how mindfulness and compassion practices can serve our children’s natural intelligence, creativity and openheartedness. Trainings in presence are the hope for this next […]
Peace Work
The hope for inner and world peace lies in our evolutionary capacity to shift from Fight-Flight-Freeze reactivity to responding to aggravation with Attend-Befriend. This talk...
Loving the Earth
How is it possible that we humans have wreaked such havoc on this planet, on the web of life that we belong to? This talk explores the ways that egoic consciousness can lead to...
Engaged Spirituality – Meditations
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Spiritual Activism/Engaged Buddhism – Serving the World
- Dharma for Times of Global Trauma – Tara Brach, Lion’s Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time, March 24, 2022
- Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
- Fred Eppsteiner, The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism
- Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal
- Ram Dass & Paul Gorman, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
- Donald Rothberg, The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
- Kittisaro & Thanissara, Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism
- Thanissara, Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth — The Buddha’s Life and Message through Feminine Eyes (Sacred Activism)
Moving Towards a Plant-Based Diet: Compassion for All
- Resources for Plant-Based Eating
- Vegan Sangha Resources (PDF)
- Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, by Paul Hawkin
- T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
- Melanie Joy, Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
- Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
- Norm Phelps, The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights
- Lani Muelrath, The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness
- Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
- Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
