Healing the Scars of History

Healing the Scars of History BY LINDSAY KYTE| FEBRUARY 9, 2023   Retreats are being held at Auschwitz, a former plantation, and a site where Indigenous people were massacred. Lindsay Kyte reports on how retreatants are finding freedom from their ancestral pain. Approximately a million people died at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It was the […]

Shuttlesworth

Screening and Discussion with T.Marie King, Willie Mukei Smith and Geoff Shoun O’Keeffe. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was raised in the crucible of segregated Birmingham but he was forged by its attempt to kill him. When the KKK planted a bomb underneath his bed and he emerged unharmed, he was sure he was saved by God […]

Sutra and Bible: Faith and the WWII Japanese American Incarceration

Please join Duncan Ryūken Williams, as he will discuss a new exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles on Buddhism, Christianity, and the WWII Japanese American incarceration, which he co-curated under the title, “Sūtra and Bible.” He will focus on the Buddhist altars, sutra stones, memorial tablets, etc. made by former […]

Finding Refuge: Remaining Open-Hearted During Heartbreaking and Uncertain Times

During this Peacemaker Circle, Michelle C. Johnson shares a brief framework to better understand power, privilege, and oppression and how systems of oppression are causing harm to us all. Michelle will share strategies and information about how to make space for our grief and broken-heartedness to heal. The Member Circle will include contemplative practice, discussion, […]

America’s Racial Karma

« I am a drop in the ocean, but I’m also the ocean. I’m a drop in America, but I’m also America. Every pain, every confusion, every good and every bad and ugly of America is in me. And as I transform myself and heal and take care of myself, I’m very conscious that I’m healing […]

The Cheap Perfume of Not Racist and the Dharma of Antiracism

« Race is the child of racism, not the father. » ~Ta-Nehisi Coates By popular demand, we are happy to present Part 2 of the conversation on the Sanitized Stench of Genocide in the U.S. This time, Audel Salazar, who participated in Part 1, will be a co-presenter with Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde. In this presentation and […]

Be the Refuge: Insights from Asian American Buddhists

More than two thirds of U.S. Buddhists are Asian American. But you’d never guess this from mainstream representations, which all too often whitewash the racial and cultural diversity of American Buddhist communities. This event introduces Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021), which centers the contributions of Asian Americans to Buddhist […]

Black and Buddhist and the Sanitized Stench of Genocide in the U S

In this conversation, Ayo will talk about what it means to be an African-American Buddhist leader. Joined by Willie and Geoff, she will address the opportunity to heal the consequences of genocidal ideation with respect to brown and black bodies. There will be ample time for audience participation. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., Th.D., is the […]

One Million Truths

One Million Truths features the testimonies of Black Americans who speak of their experiences with race in America. Mark Eckhardt, as a Black American and Zen priest, came up with the idea for One Million Truths during the George Floyd protests, not long after writing a social media post on MLK Day. His passionate post documented […]

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor […]