2017 List of Selected Readings/Resources | BBMC Dharma sharing – Baltimore and Beyond: Mindfulness Community

Dharma readings shared during bi-monthly activist and POC gatherings:

I Vow Not to Burn Out by Mushim Patricia Ikeda in Lion’s Roar, November 2017
My Sister’s Simple and Profound Death Meditation by Sebene Selassie
“Mindfulness and the Beloved Community” from Taming the Ox (2014) by Charles Johnson
Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future: JUSTICE IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC: LESSON PLAN for using On Being Interview with Cheri Maples on Enhancing Empathy & Mindfulness Between Police & Communities of Color, December 2016
Why Does it Hurt? Reflections on Pain, Identity Politics and the Need for Healing by Karen Pittman, September 2017
Together We Are One letter by Kaira Jewel Lingo, May 2017
Mindfulness and Violence by Alexander Beecham in Skin Deep, September 2015
The Terror Within by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel in Tricycle Magazine, December 2015
Intentional Compassion, the Other Piece of Racial Justice by Stefani Cox in Buddhist Peace Fellowship, June 2015
Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives by Prentis Hemphill in Huffington Post, February 2017
Passage from No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering (2014) by Thich Nhat Hanh
We’ve Been Here All Along by Funie Hsu in Lion’s Roar, May 2017
Precepts for Warriors from The Fierce Boddhisatva: A continuing argument for Buddhist practice in the Military and Law Enforcement Communities, September 2010
Suffering Too Insignificant for the Majority to See by Alice Walker in Lion’s Roar, May 2007
Transcript of Teachings for Uncertain Times: Racism Is a Heart Disease by Ruth King in Tricycle Magazine, February 2017
Lara Medina. (2014). Nepantla Spirituality: My path to the source(s) of Healing. In Fleshing the Spirt: Spirituality and activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives. Eds. E Facio, I Lara. University of Arizona Press.
Do You Know Your True Face? by Lama Rod Owens in Lion’s Roar, February 2017
How do you say ‘I Love You’ in the era of ‘Trumpism’: love in action by Marisela Gomez in Huffington Post, January 2017
Reading and sharing on The Five Contemplations
Reading and sharing on Spiritual Bypass (White Privilege and the Mindfulness Movement by Edwin Ng and Ron Purser in Buddhist Peace Fellowship, October 2015)
Reading and practicing Beginning Anew
Reading and practicing Touching the Earth to Our Ancestors, expanded version
Reading and practicing Metta (Thich Nhat Hanh on Loving Ourselves by Looking Deeply into Ourselves by Steven Goodheart, October 2010)

2017 List of Selected Readings/Resources | BBMC Dharma sharing

Dharma readings shared during bi-monthly activist and POC gatherings:

**I Vow Not to Burn Out by Mushim Patricia Ikeda in Lion’s Roar, November 2017**

My Sister’s Simple and Profound Death Meditation by Sebene Selassie

“Mindfulness and the Beloved Community” from Taming the Ox (2014) by Charles Johnson

Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future: JUSTICE IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC: LESSON PLAN for using On Being Interview with Cheri Maples on Enhancing Empathy & Mindfulness Between Police & Communities of Color, December 2016

Why Does it Hurt? Reflections on Pain, Identity Politics and the Need for Healing by Karen Pittman, September 2017

Together We Are One letter by Kaira Jewel Lingo, May 2017

Mindfulness and Violence by Alexander Beecham in Skin Deep, September 2015

The Terror Within by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel in Tricycle Magazine, December 2015

Intentional Compassion, the Other Piece of Racial Justice by Stefani Cox in Buddhist Peace Fellowship, June 2015

Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives by Prentis Hemphill in Huffington Post, February 2017

Passage from No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering (2014) by Thich Nhat Hanh

We’ve Been Here All Along by Funie Hsu in Lion’s Roar, May 2017

Precepts for Warriors from The Fierce Boddhisatva: A continuing argument for Buddhist practice in the Military and Law Enforcement Communities, September 2010

Suffering Too Insignificant for the Majority to See by Alice Walker in Lion’s Roar, May 2007

Transcript of Teachings for Uncertain Times: Racism Is a Heart Disease by Ruth King in Tricycle Magazine, February 2017

Lara Medina. (2014). Nepantla Spirituality: My path to the source(s) of Healing. In Fleshing the Spirt: Spirituality and activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives. Eds. E Facio, I Lara. University of Arizona Press.

Do You Know Your True Face? by Lama Rod Owens in Lion’s Roar, February 2017

How do you say ‘I Love You’ in the era of ‘Trumpism’: love in action by Marisela Gomez in Huffington Post, January 2017

Reading and sharing on The Five Contemplations

Reading and sharing on Spiritual Bypass (White Privilege and the Mindfulness Movement by Edwin Ng and Ron Purser in Buddhist Peace Fellowship, October 2015)

Reading and practicing Beginning Anew

Reading and practicing Touching the Earth to Our Ancestors, expanded version

Reading and practicing Metta (Thich Nhat Hanh on Loving Ourselves by Looking Deeply into Ourselves by Steven Goodheart, October 2010)

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