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Tag: Robert Aitken Roshi

All People Are Chosen; All Lands Are Holy: Interfaith Dialog for Peace & Sustainability

Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This is the text of a talk given on 1 November 2013 at the Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia (IKIM) in Kuala Lumpur, at the start of the 2013 conference of the International Network of Engaged Read more

Some Thoughts About Engaged Buddhism and Wrong Mindfulness

An Interview with Hozan Alan Senauke by John Malkin, March 2013

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What is the interaction between practices like meditation and social change? 

When I began an activist path I did not see any interaction. I wasn’t practicing Buddhism then and … Read more

Clear View/Right View

Owl said, “Then where does Right Realization come in?”
Brown Bear said, “Right Views! Right Views!”
Owl said, “What are Right Views?”
Brown Bear said, “We’re in it together, and we don’t have much time.”

— from Zen Master Raven: Read more

Robert Aitken Roshi — A Personal & Biographical Reflection

Robert Aitken Roshi

Robert Baker Aitken — Dairyu Chotan/Great Dragon (of the) Clear Pool — died on August 5 in Honolulu at the age of 93. He was the “dean” of Western Zen teachers, a great light of dharma. Aitken Roshi was a … Read more

Four Movements in the History of Socially Engaged Buddhism and Their Central Contributions

by Donald Rothberg and Alan Senauke

What is socially engaged Buddhism? It is Dharma practice that flows from the understanding of the complete yet complicated interdependence of all life. It is the practice of the Bodhisattva vow to save all … Read more