Sublime

shall work to transform violence, fear, anger, and confusion in myself and in society by practicing a diet for myself and for society.

We love without clinging; we help without identifying ourselves as helpers; we protest without getting lost in our protests; we care for our children remembering that, behind it all, here we are: the truth, the caring. We honor our bodies; we honor our society; we honor our whole game; we change it in the way it needs to be changed. We listen to he

Samyutta Nikaya as follows:

The bodhisattva’s aspiration is simple and powerful: “May all circumstances serve to awaken compassion.”

meditation techniques, ethics, and alignment principles that help guide us, depending on where we are within the features of the landscape, so that we can wake up to the landscape itself, only to see that landscape and practitioner are nothing other than relative categories and that the path of yoga moves beyond such categories as it ripens.

One of our key roles, as social movements, must be to harness the shocks and direct the slides—all towards achieving the systemic, cultural and psychic shifts we need to navigate the changes with the greatest equity, resilience and ecological restoration possible.

heard years ago that Thich Nhat Hanh said, “The next Buddha will be the sangha.”

In the moment, we’re always entering that unknown. And we do what we do, because it’s what we feel we need to do. But that is quite a task. So we keep connecting to something that will energize us and keep us going—our values, a vision of life as it might look, those who have come before us, and one another.

Collective practice of awareness can elevate our communities so that we fulfill the aspiration to a “Beloved Community” developed by Josiah Royce, a philosopher of the early twentieth century, and expanded upon and timelessly described in the speeches of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beloved Communities are envisioned as those that embody the