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
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
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
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
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
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
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Questions about Responding to White Supremacy
Posted on September 1, 2017 by Alan Senauke
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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
Category: U.S. Politics Tags: Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Dr. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Racial Justice, Reverend James Lawson
In the Winter of Our Discontent
Posted on December 28, 2016 by Alan Senauke
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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
Category: News, U.S. Politics Tags: Dr. Martin Luther King, Engaged Buddhism, Mahatma Gandhi, Nyogen Senzaki, Zen
Right Anger and the Path to the End of the Caste by Hozan Alan Senauke
Posted on November 4, 2014 by 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
Category: Dr. Ambedkar & Dalit Communities, India, U.S. Politics Tags: Dalit communities, Dr. Ambedkar, Dr. Martin Luther King, Indian caste system, Oscar Grant, Right Anger
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
Posted on January 15, 2013 by Alan Senauke
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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
Category: U.S. Politics Tags: Dr. Martin Luther King
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted on January 15, 2011 by Alan Senauke
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Category: U.S. Politics Tags: Dr. Martin Luther King
Reflections on Gaza and the Ritual of Mutual Destruction
Posted on January 2, 2009 by Alan Senauke
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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
Category: News Tags: Barack Obama, Dhammapada, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ezekiel, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Nations, West Bank
What Did You Learn in School Today — Reflections on the Columbia Strike Gathering
Posted on May 10, 2008 by Alan Senauke
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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
Category: U.S. Politics Tags: Barbara Bernstein, Barnard College, Bill Sales, Columbia University, Columbia University protests of 1968, Diana Oughton, Dr. Martin Luther King, Gender, Grateful Dead, Hamilton Hall, Lee Bollinger, Low Library Commune, Low Memorial Library, Paul Spike, Ray Brown, Student Afro-American Society (SAS), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, Weather Underground
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