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Tag: Dr. Martin Luther King

Questions about Responding to White Supremacy

The comments below were catalyzed by an ongoing exchange of ideas on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship website. I encourage you to explore the dialogue there. Mine is just one voice.

Please forgive the rambling nature of these comments. I welcome … Read more

In the Winter of Our Discontent

Nyogen Senzaki was the first Japanese Zen master to live and teach on our shores. Along with one hundred twenty thousand Americans of Japanese ancestry, he was interned as an enemy alien, confined at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War … Read more

Right Anger and the Path to the End of the Caste by Hozan Alan Senauke

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And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
                                                                                                 —Dhammacakkappavattana Read more

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King

The Dharma of Martin Luther King Jr.

Hozan Alan Senauke

Berkeley Zen Center – 13 January 2013

I’ve been thinking about Dr. King. On Monday, January 15 Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 84 years old. A week later … Read more

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’ve been studying on Martin Luther King Jr. for the last decade — reading his sermons and speeches, examining his actions and strategies, and mourning his loss. As much as any person of the 20th Century, he is my … Read more

Reflections on Gaza and the Ritual of Mutual Destruction

Gaza is burning. The violence must end before anything else can happen. We can all think nice thoughts about right and wrong, who acted first, who acted worst. We can argue about politics — national, international, geopolitical, corporate. Whatever intellectual … Read more

What Did You Learn in School Today — Reflections on the Columbia Strike Gathering

These are brief and incomplete reflections of the CU 68 Strike Gathering, April 24-27, 2008. Consider this “in-house” for those of us who share the history. From the moment I walked back onto the Columbia campus — my first time … Read more