![]() As Insight Meditation practitioners, we explore the Buddha’s profound practice of mindfulness and clear seeing, and have the opportunity to bring our full hearts and the strength of our practice to bear on the suffering that haunts the lives of so many in our communities and beyond. In contemporary culture, the movement toward social justice can be thought of as an active expression of compassion. Mindfulness of others is the basis of compassion and sympathetic joy, the expressions of mettā, or lovingkindness, that arise when we truly feel with another person’s suffering or well-being. As Spirit Rock teacher Larry Yang emphasizes, internal mindfulness brings awareness to our individual sensations, feelings, and experience, while external mindfulness brings awareness to the sensations, feelings, and experience of others. Larry Yang, Awakening TogetherĪt the heart of the Buddha’s instructions for mindfulness in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is the invitation to observe the body, heart, and mind “internally, externally, and both internally and externally.” This discourse of the Buddha guides most of our retreats at Spirit Rock and provides a foundation for our practice. … The creation of peace in the world, which so desperately needs it, is no different than the creation of peace within ourselves. It is about our collective journey and transformation toward a shared experience of wisdom and tenderness. The path is not just about personal salvation. The practice is not just about our own personal awakening, enlightenment, or freedom. ![]() In this time of global crisis, we offer it in support of spiritual community and toward the cultivation of wise action in service of all beings. These lists are truly just a beginning, as any resource list is. This page offers a selection of resources that bring together Buddhist and social justice practice, both from within Buddhist communities, and from teachers and groups we find resonant with the core values of the Dharma. ![]() “Because of this, this arises,” taught the Buddha, pointing to how everything we experience arises from actions in the past and their results in the present. The study of social justice and the collective action that is the expression of compassion for the suffering of the world can be thought of in Buddhist terms as the study of conditionality. It is a necessary text for these times.Just as we never master the practices of meditation and lovingkindness, but always find that there’s more to experience, more to learn, and more to awaken to, the practice of learning about the conditions that form our world is ongoing. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger - and yet who refuse to relent. Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger - and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it - needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
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