How do the Three Tenets inform your social engagement?
1) Not Knowing: Our organization does not promote any ideology or political, economic, or social theory that dictates our understanding. Our Call to Action states, "We affirm the need to listen to differing viewpoints with openness and equanimity and to respond with wise minds and caring hearts." We believe in responding freshly to situations that arise, enquiring in each moment, “What is needed? How can we help?,” and not believing that the answer we arrive at in that moment will be a final answer.
2) We have encouraged members to bear witness across the country at courthouses and ICE facilities where people are illegally rounded up and detained. We are planning to educate members in coming months to prepare them for how to interact with ICE agents if they are accompanying immigrants or witnessing an ICE kidnapping.
3) We have endorsed national and local actions including recent ones organized by Indivisible, No Kings, Mobilize, Good Trouble Continues, the Interfaith Center of NY, the Oak Flat Buddhist Working Group, and have entered into amicus curiae briefs with other religious organizations on behalf of persons being detained and subject to deportation.