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SUMMARY:Nov. 20: Joint Buddhists for Racial Justice Call
DESCRIPTION:Quarterly racial justice calls open to all. Looking forward to joint learning\, practicing\, and taking of action based on the Dharma of impartiality. \nFor November 20th\, both POC and white facilitators will lead the call\, inviting into query about internal struggles and external best practices. \nWe will use the East Bay Meditation Agreement for Multicultural Interactions in general: https://eastbaymeditation.org/resources/diversity/\nAnd for deepened conversation\, Dr. Mark Jones's Hear\, See\, and Love Guidelines\nsourced from His Holiness the Dalai Lama: "Everyone needs and wants to be heard\, seen\, and loved."\n1. To hear: paraphrase\, summarize in your own words.\n2. To see:\na. ask for the stories behind his/her/their emotions.\nb. watch for signs of nuggets (i.e.\, "more to the story").\nc. verify with your conversation partner if you're understanding right.\n3. To show love: demonstrate empathy and interest in core values and deeper meaning.\nWe would love it if you can commit to being on the entire call so that everyone may be fully immersed\,\nthough we understand you have busy lives and may not have two hours on November 20th\, so just come and go as unobstrusively as you can. \nRegister here for 2018 & 2019 calls: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/c65d218977ab5468dc2040ba88984b7b \n-- \nA truly diverse group of Buddhists committed to anti-racism joined NABA's last call on Sept. 18 led by the POCs. \nHere are some comments from our hopeful participants: \n“AMAZING! Thanks so much.” \n“Thank you\, so much.” \n“Yes\, yes\, yes...” \n“Thank you so much. So grateful!” \n“All good questions” \n“How to get others to start internal work.” \n“I would love to be part of the group.” \n“It was wonderful to be on yesterday's NABA call with all of you.  After the call ended\, I could feel a renewed sense of energy for my dharma work!” \n“Building safe enough sanghas can happen!” \n“I am grateful to this group and to the multiracial call we just had with the POC group. I felt growth\, hope and heart opening after the call.” \nWatch for follow-up action items that resulted from this call! \nRSVP Here for Quarterly 2018 & 2019 \nRacial Justice Calls Open to All\n11 AM - 1 PM PST / 2 - 4 PM EST
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/nov-20-joint-buddhists-for-racial-justice-call/
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:On Inclusion! A Buddhist Intrafaith Gathering
DESCRIPTION:On Inclusion! NABA's gathering for Buddhists across traditions. Also a pre-Parliament of the World's Religions event in Toronto\, Canada. \nAll Buddhists in Toronto on this day\, whether attending the Parliament of the World's Religions or not the next day are welcome. This day-long conference is a blessed opportunity to connect with Buddhists from diverse backgrounds and introduce to one another issues especially pertinent to the North American region. \nMark your calendar for October 31st\, Wednesday\, 10 AM to 5 PM Toronto time. \nLunch is on your own around University of Toronto's St. George campus.\nhttps://ueat.utoronto.ca/campus-locations/ \nDebate Room\, Upstairs of Hart House\, 7 Hart House Cir\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3H3\, Canada \nhttp://harthouse.ca/large-rooms/#debate \nPlease RSVP and show your support here: https://naba-on-inclusion.eventbrite.com
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/naba-on-inclusion-2/
LOCATION:Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:"Beyond Identity" - race\, class\, power ... and winning the world we need
DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop Series presented by White Awake\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-identity-online-workshop-series-tickets-45068768901 \nFacilitators: Eleanor Hancock and Andy Banks \n\n\n\nThree sessions: May 26\, June 9\, and June 23 (Saturdays)\n\n\nEach session: 3-5pm ET / 12-2pm PT\n\n\n$70 for whole series\n\n\nNo one is turned away for lack of funds.\n\n\nLive sessions will be held as video conferences via Zoom\n\n\nSessions will be recorded and shared with participants\n\n\nWhite Awake is a nonprofit organization. If you would like to make a donation above and beyond the cost of your ticket\, you can do so here.\n\n\nQuestions\, or to request a scholarship\, write us at: info@whiteawake.org\n\n\n\n“If their strategy is to divide\, ours has to be to unite.” - Andy Banks\, labor organizer \nHave you ever wondered just what it would take to end white supremacy? You are showing up as an ally in anti-racist struggle\, you are doing your part to dismantle your socialization as a white person … but is it enough? What are our long term goals\, and are we taking the steps we need to get there? \nForged in the cauldron of the 13 colonies and soon to be United States\, white supremacy redirected centuries of resistance by European peasants and laborers to economic exploitation by a small ruling class\, effectively paving the way for capitalism as we know it today. We are left with the ravages of racism\, genocide\, colonialism and imperialism\, consuming our lives and the natural world in order to further consolidate economic power in the hands of a very small number of people. \nIt is this base of economic power that has to be disrupted and replaced if we are ever to escape the devastation and build the world we need. And yet many people who enter social justice spaces are met not with a broad analysis of capitalism and power\, but rather a list of rules and a tight control of interpersonal interaction that can be stifling or even harmful. While understanding and correcting how we have been socialized is important\, a rigid focus on identity and “right and wrong” ways of acting will not build the collective base of power necessary to topple something as powerful as global capitalism\, complete with national armies and private mercenaries to protect the interests of a few and maintain the horrific\, white supremacist agenda that is enmeshed within it. \nThis workshop series focuses specifically on the relationship between racism and capitalism. The goal is to help participants develop a strong political and historical analysis that can direct our energy into social movement spaces that are focused not on infighting or trying to “get it right\,” or even forcing small improvements to the the current social/economic order\, but on a complete and radical change. Change that takes us beyond what may seem possible\, all the way to what we need. \nIn this workshop series\, White Awake Director Eleanor Hancock and long time labor organizer Andy Banks will help participants: \n\nStrengthen your understanding of the relationship between capitalism and white supremacy\nLearn principles of organizing around solidarity (mutual self interest as opposed to guilt or obligation) that can make it easier to talk to other white people about social change and provide a solid foundation for multiracial\, coalition work\nFortify yourself against shame\, blame\, and coercive tactics sometimes used in dogmatic social justice spaces\nApply an analysis of white racial socialization within a broad vision of radical social change\nReflect on People’s Platforms as an organizing tool to help win “the world we need” - one where the economy and other social systems are based not on extraction and exploitation\, but on care for each another and the planet\n\nNo one is an expert. We hope to learn and grow together! \n\nWhite Awake focuses its work on the education and transformation of people who are socialized and racially categorized as “white\,” and sometimes holds white caucus spaces. This series is explicitly open to anyone who is interested in the topic and comfortable with a focus on white identity in a larger political context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare with friends\n\n\n\n\n   Facebook \n   Facebook Messenger \n   LinkedIn \n   Twitter \n   email \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and Time\n\nSat\, May 26\, 2018\, 3:00 PM – \nSat\, Jun 23\, 2018\, 5:00 PM EDT \nAdd to Calendar \n\nRefund Policy\n\nRefunds up to 1 day before event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer:   White Awake \nOrganizer of "Beyond Identity" online workshop series \n\n\n\n\n\n White Awake combats white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices designed to facilitate white people’s engagement in the creation of a just and sustainable society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer Profile   Contact
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/beyond-identity-race-class-power-and-winning-the-world-we-need-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Block Build Be 2018
DESCRIPTION:http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/bbb-2018/ \nApplications Now Open: Block Build Be 2018\n\n\n \nDo you get down at the intersection of social justice and Buddhism? Looking to build community with other folks who feel the same? Join BPF in summer 2018\, celebrating our 40-year anniversary bridging spiritual and social liberation. \nBLOCK harm and oppression.\nBUILD inspiring alternatives.\nBE in alignment with dharma — spiritual values of wisdom\, compassion\, and freedom. \nApply today for our Annual Block\, Build\, Be Leadership Retreat! To continue combining our superpowers for love and justice\, BPF is assembling a select\, three-day gathering in Northern California on June 21 – 24th\, 2018. \nThis retreat of 35 people fills up quickly with a LONG waiting list\, so apply soon! \nApply Here\nApplications due by March 9th\n \n \n\nABOUT THE BLOCK BUILD BE RETREAT\nPlease note that this is not a silent meditation retreat or intensive Buddhist study. Rather\, it’s a chance to practice #MakingRefuge together\, in the words of BBB alum Ed Ng. Sometimes this is quiet\, and sometimes it is loud! We are a multi-lineage crew and welcome folks from many traditions — Theravada\, Mahayana\, Vajrayana\, all their branches\, and more. Some of us were raised with Buddhism\, some have been studying and practicing for years\, others are brand-new to Buddhist teachings or meditation\, and still others identify equally or more closely with other spiritual traditions. \nComing from all these streams\, we’ll sit and swim\, plot and play\, connect\, reflect\, and rejoice together in gorgeous Petaluma this summer as we examine what each of us offers — Blocking\, Building\, and Being — at the intersection of Buddhism and social justice. Our days together will include \n\nExploring the Block Build Be framework\nInvestigating how wisdom (Buddhist and otherwise) can support us in social movements\nSharing our hopes and inspirations\, holding space for our challenges and frustrations\n\nThis retreat is deeply interactive. Together\, we will explore the questions tugging most strongly at our hearts\, engage in collective deep inquiry about our social change work\, and draw upon the wisdom of the dharma to support us in meeting the issues of our times. \nThis retreat is facilitated by committed dharma practitioners\, some of whom have studied or received transmission to teach Buddhist wisdom. However\, it is not designed as a dharma teaching retreat\, and we want to emphasize that it is open to people of all faiths\, lineages\, and beliefs. \nThe retreat will begin Thursday\, June 21st in Richmond\, California. We will caravan to Walker Creek Ranch\, and will conclude the retreat at Sunday\, June 24th. \nLODGING & FOOD OPTIONS\n\n“From each according to ability\, to each according to need.”\n\nWe are committed to making this retreat hella accessible and fantastic — more and more every year! Our host Walker Creek Ranch has wheelchair-accessible\, low-scent facilities with vegan and vegetarian food options\, as well as other dietary options according to your needs. \nFor the health and safety of fellow BPFers with chemical sensitivities\, we ask that you please arrive and remain fragrance-free throughout the weekend. Here’s more on how to become fragrance free. \n4 DAYS\, 3 NIGHTS \n \n\nYou can choose among 3 lodging packages for the 4-day\, 3-night stay. (Prices include all meals for the weekend.) \nCAMPING: $375 \nDORM ROOMS: $525 \n(DORM ROOMS w/ your own linens & blanket: $475) \nSEMI-PRIVATE: $595 \nIn our efforts to stay consistent with anti-capitalist\, sharing-based values\, we will ask for contributions on a sliding scale according to what you can afford to offer. Full and partial scholarships are available for any of the lodging packages\, and some assistance may also be available for travel. \nThe Application Form has more information about how to offer or request financial assistance or other supportive magic. We’re happy to try to find creative solutions so don’t be shy if there’s something you need. <3 \n3 STEPS TO REGISTER\n\n1. Complete Application Form\nYour application form will let us know more about you\, and about your needs and preferences for the retreat — including lodging selections\, dietary needs\, accessibility\, travel scholarships\, and all that jazz. \nApply Here\nApplications due by March 9th\n2. If Accepted\, Pay Deposit ($60)\nOnce you apply\, please wait patiently to hear from us about whether you’re accepted. We’re doing our best to respond to everyone speedily! If you are accepted into the retreat (likely by March 30th)\, we will be in touch and work out your registration fees. \nTo hold your place at the retreat\, you’ll be asked to pay a $60 deposit\, which goes toward your meals and lodging. The deposit is non-refundable\, so please do not pay the deposit until you have heard from us that you are accepted into the retreat. If you are not financially able to pay this deposit\, please email lizhen@bpf.org to talk about waiving it. \n3. Pay Balance (Due May 1\, 2018)\nOnce your deposit is confirmed\, complete your registration by paying your remaining balance by May 1st. \n\nWe hope this retreat will leave you feeling inspired and ready to renew your great offerings\, personal and political\, creative and radiant\, in a web of radical dharma friends who have your back. \n\nAware of the unnecessary suffering\nCaused by racism\, sexism\, ableism\, war\,\neconomic exploitation\, imperialism\,\nand other forms of systemic oppression\,\nWe strive to bridge our practice in the Buddhadharma\nwith our work in the world\nTo further collective liberation for all beings.\nAs buddhists\, we do not seek state power\nor religious leadership within mass movements.\nInstead\, we want to hone and improve our contributions\n(individual and collective)\nto social movements as they arise and evolve.\n\n*Block Build Be is an annual leadership retreat coordinated by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship\, designed to gather leaders working at the intersection of Buddhism and social justice. Together\, we explore the questions tugging most strongly at our hearts\, engage in collective deep inquiry about our social change work\, and draw upon the wisdom of the dharma to support us in meeting the issues of our times. \n\nUse these simple buttons to share!
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/block-build-be-2018-2/
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:A People of Color Meditation Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness Meditation & Community\, May 24-28\n\n\nPeople of Color Retreat
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/a-people-of-color-meditation-retreat-2/
LOCATION:Windhorse Hill Center Retreat
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Village Zendo People of Color Sitting Group
DESCRIPTION:People of Color Sitting Group\, 2018
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/village-zendo-people-of-color-sitting-group-2/
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T190000
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SUMMARY:Forms of Emptiness – Workshop in Zen Liturgy
DESCRIPTION:Village Zendo Forms of Emptiness – Workshop in Zen Liturgy\n\n9 February\n16 March\n13 April\n11 May\n8 June\n7 September\n12 October\n9 November\n\n5:30 pm - 7:00 pm \n\n\nZen forms are ways to help support ourselves and each other in seeing our lives as they are moment to moment\, and to continually remind us of our conviction to stay awake.The sounds and movements we see around the Zendo may seem random and incidental\, but are always gateways to come back to right now\, and also communicate what is happening at specific moments in time. \nThis workshop will serve as an opportunity to become more familiar with these forms\, and also to practice getting good tone out of the various zendo instruments. \nSuggested donation: $10.\nRegistration not required. \nThe workshop will be led by Village Zendo Liturgy Master Tokuyu Manasia and is open to anyone who would like to attend. \n\n\n\nForms of Emptiness – Workshop in Zen Liturgy
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/forms-of-emptiness-workshop-in-zen-liturgy-2/
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Monthly WAG: 1st Sunday's
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls \nNABA's White Affinities Group is committed to continue its monthly space\nto talk about the work we're doing to end white supremacy and work for racial justice\,\nwhether that's in our sanghas\, in the U.S. and beyond --\nwhat we are learning\, what the challenges are\, and how this connects with our Buddhist practice.\nOur hope is that this kind of space could support and strengthen people's local organizing rather than taking away from it.\nNABA provides a unique opportunity to connect across Buddhist lineages and across geographic regions.\nKey points: \n\n* This is a chance to touch base every month for a short period of time\, rather than making an extensive commitment.\n* WAG is inclusive of all levels of experience with anti-racist work and Buddhism. We are all learning together.\n* All kinds of anti-racism work can be brought in for discussion.\nThis could include conversations with people in your day to day life (sangha\, work\, family\, etc.)\, more formal collective organizing against structural and systemic racism\, internal learning and unlearning\, etc.\n* New folks can drop in at any time.\n* This is also a chance to practice facilitating white anti-racist discussion in a supportive space\, for anyone who wants to try that.\n\nCurrently Kara\, Ruby\, and Joshua are going to rotate facilitation and we'd love for other folks to get involved if this is something you want to try.\n\nWe will send more frequent updates and reminders through the WAG Google Group. To join the Google Group\, please register and show up on a WAG Zoom call.\nWe'd like to get to know you and know about you and racial justice.\nWe need more intersections between the overarching\, powerful Buddhists for racial justice statements and the daily grind of local diversity programs\, learning through sharing\, and continental multi-lineage conversations\, please join us in our attempt to connect the dots here at NABA!\nWe hope to see you 1st Sunday each month! \n\nRSVP Here for 1st Sunday of the Month\nFeb. to June 2018\, 10 AM - Noon PST / 1 - 3 PM EST Calls\n\n\nKara Dansky  \nKara Dansky is the founder and managing director of One Thousand Arms and a long-time practitioner within the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. \n\n\n\nRuby Grad \n\nRuby Grad is a practicing meditator and Buddhist in the Ajahn Chah lineage of the Thai Forest Theravada lineage for close to 30 years.\n\nNot pictured is Joshua\, who has been practicing for 12 years with a sangha in a Rinzai Zen lineage and is involved in grassroots groups working to end white supremacy and colonialism.
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/monthly-wag-1st-sundays-5-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2018
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SUMMARY:Monthly POCs for Racial Justice Calls: 3rd Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:NABA offers monthly opportunities for POC Buddhists for racial justice to gather. This multi-lineage container provides nourishment\, solidarity-building\, probes into larger questions\, and action-oriented committees couched on the teachings of the Buddha. These calls are consistent opportunities where POC Buddhists for racial justice across North America may be relieved of the burden of having to explain racism to others and simply be accepted\, as together we explore justice issues and resolutions in our personal and global spheres. POC Buddhists across traditions have something unique to offer race relations at micro and macro levels too. \nRegular calls every 3rd Tuesday of the month starting at 11:30 AM PST / 2:30 PM EST.\nThe next call will be February 20th. \nRegister for upcoming 2018 calls here:\n February 20 -- An Exploration.\nWe will consider questions such as the following:\n-Are fight and flight the only options in the face of injustice?\n-What Dharma-based resolutions have you tried or would like to try?\n-And what happened or resulted when you did try?\n-Explore silence as a solution vs. being silenced as an injustice. \nMarch 20 -- Peace and Social Action.\nCoinciding with NABA's multi-lineage racial justice webinar by Katie Loncke of Buddhist Peace Fellowship and co-presenter from another community\, please join all interested in racial justice on this date. \nApril to December \nDr. Kamilah Majied\, Jennifer Hawkins\, and Guo Cheen are helping with the facilitation of these calls. Please join us: \n\nTo Heal: To recognize and repair internalized oppression and its impact on our relatedness as a diverse body of practitioners of color. We need time together to apply our practice towards discovering more personally who we are as a diverse body of color.\nTo Discover: To know who Practitioners of Color are as a diverse body\, recognize the integral roles we play in the broader spiritual community\, discover how we currently enhance racial equity\, leverage resources\, and form natural collaborations.\nTo Bridge: This call invites us to explore how we align our energies in ways that bridge racial separation between historically divided communities of color. Many of us also seek to reconcile and collaborate with white practitioners\, allies\, and institutions without causing or experiencing harm.\nTo Justice: We call practitioners of color to humbly recognize our interdependence across the very systems which perpetuate the vestiges of our exploitation/enslavement\, including economic\, healthcare\, educational\, environmental\, transportation and legal systems controlling housing\, property and national borders. Of relevant concern to us is how racism relies on greed and class stratification\, the weight of which is not only ravaging the poorest communities of color but also rapidly destroying the planet.\n\nSee you every 3rd Tuesday of the month!
URL:https://www.northamericanbuddhistalliance.org/event/monthly-pocs-for-racial-justice-calls-3rd-tuesdays-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event Archive 2016,Event Archive 2017,Event Archive 2018
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