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Going to the Root: How White Caucuses Contribute to Racial Justice

by Alex Vlasic

Caucusing is a form of upāya—skillful means. To caucus is skillful because it reduces harm. For Buddhists, practicing harm reduction is a relative bodhicitta practice. In my experience of 24 years of facilitating racial justice work, I have found that it is not helpful to put together in the same room folks who have had racism aimed at them all their...

July 3, 2019
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Going to the Root: How White Caucuses Contribute to Racial Justice

Published by Alex Vlasic

Caucusing is a form of upāya—skillful means. To caucus is skillful because it reduces harm. For Buddhists, practicing harm reduction is a relative bodhicitta practice. In...

July 3, 2019
Blog, Blogs & Essays
Leaf on water, book cover

Healing Justice for a World on Fire

Published by Loretta Pyles

In the Adittapariyaya Sutta, known as the Fire Sermon, the Buddha says that everything is burning—burning with the fire of greed, hatred, delusion, sorrows, griefs, lamentations,...

December 20, 2018
Blogs & Essays

Cutting Through Spiritual Puritanism

Published by Gabe Dayley

In the West it is difficult for the Dharma to take root. The soil is not fertile. The good and evil, fire and brimstone logic of...

November 27, 2018
Blog, Blogs & Essays, Editorial

Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People

Published by Kelsey Blackwell

I’m breathing deeply as I write this. What I’m writing about is charged. I feel this energy in my body. It’s a heat in my throat...

August 9, 2018
Blogs & Essays

Dharma, Degrowth, and Climate Change

Published by Zack Walsh, Asoka Bandarage, Rachel DeMotts, David Kahane, Austin R. Pick, Holly Gayley

Download Special Issue: Dharma, Degrowth, and Climate Change   Illustrations by Alicia Brown Comments The Arrow welcomes comments in response to issues we publish. Please submit...

March 27, 2018
Issues

Beyond Theory: Relating to Dominant Systems and Manifesting Social Alternatives in Dharma Communities

Published by David Kahane

This essay also appears in the special issue “Dharma, De-Growth, and Climate Change.” Click here to download and read the entire issue. We live in a...

March 27, 2018
Blogs & Essays

Drala of the Landscape: Rights of the River

Published by Rachel DeMotts

This essay also appears in the special issue “Dharma, De-Growth, and Climate Change.” Click here to download and read the entire issue. In March of 2017,...

March 27, 2018
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