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Happy Together

By Gaylon Ferguson — 2011

When we stop focusing on ourselves, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings. Gaylon Ferguson examines the political, social, and environmental implications.

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Five Lessons on Life from Zen Buddhist Master Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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Peter Burns
2020
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Things as It Is

Our effort in Zen is to observe everything as-it-is. Yet even though we say so, we are not necessarily observing everything as-it-is.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2017
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Nelson Mandela – Nobel Lecture

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

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Nelson Mandela
1993
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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Richard Stengel
2020
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Instructions to the Cook

A Zen Master’s Lessons for Living a Life that Matters

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Roshi Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields
1996
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Op-Ed: Rabbi Sharon Brous: Why Jews Should Support Reparations for Slavery

Paying reparations would offer some financial redress, and, most significantly, it would start a reckoning that our country desperately needs.

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Rabbi Sharon Brous
2018
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Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy

The heart is where we integrate what we know in our minds with what we know in our bones, the place where our knowledge can become more fully human.

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Parker J. Palmer
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Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick: An Interview on Health and Politics

Doctor Gabor Maté is the award-winning author of the books When the Body Says No, Hold On To Your Kids, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. He was recently invited to speak at a conference of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, which includes seven Saskatchewan First Nations.

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Ryan Meili
2014
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The Great Turning as Compass and Lens

The Great Turning identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.

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Joanna Macy
2006
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Interview with Joanna Macy: Woman on the Edge of Time

For fifty-plus years, Joanna Macy has been helping us to face the Earth’s urgent and deepening crisis, to look without turning away, and to engage.

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Barbara Gates, Susan Moon, Wes Nisker
2012
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