Resources

• Readings
• Sangha Resources

Readings on Mindfulness

2025

2023

• Poems Written by Poets of Color
• Tranforming Suffering, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Inciting Joy, Ross Gay
• I Will Follow in the Direction of Hope, Larry Ward
• Colorism as Racism, Ibram X Kendi
• Rehearsing Suffering, Sr. Dang Nghiem
• Seeing the Unseen, Mushim Ikeda
• The Life and Teachings of Sr. Chan Khong, Sr. Chan Khong
• Being Present with Suffering, Justin Von Bujdoss
• Where Do We Go When We Die, Thich Nhat Hanh
• War and Peace Within, Thich Nhat Hanh

2022

• Zen Battles, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Buddhism the Beats and Loving Blackness, bell hooks
• Countering Oppression by Cultivating Peace, Ray Buckner
• Love Letters to Mother Earth, Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Groundless Path, Santiago Santai Jimenz
• Sacred works of Sandra Cisneros, Sandra Cisneros

2021

• Give Yourself Some Breathing Room, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Strike! Rise! Dance!, bell hooks, Eve Ensler
• Healing America’s Racial Karma, Larry Ward
• Making Friends with Ourselves, Kate Johnson
• It’s OK to Breathe, Angel Kyodo Williams
• Rohini ~ Wandering Star, First Free Women
• Somatic Practices for Healing Trauma, Resmaa Menakem

2020

• On Hope, various authors
• Toward a Worldwide Culture of Love, bell hooks
• Toward a culture of love, bell hooks
• Practice of generosity, Maria Rose
• How to be Equanimous in a Racialized World, Ruth King
• I Vow Not to Burn Out, Mushim Patricia Ikeda
• Non-violence and Nonviolence, Kazu Haga
• Fourteen Verses on Meditation, Plum Village
• Discover the Healing Power in Your Heart, Pema Chodran
• Understanding Our Father, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Non-Violence and Actions, Various Authors
• True Power, Thich Nhat Hanh and Pema Chodran
• A Zen Master’s Tips for Staying Sane in Challenging Times, Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism
• Teachings on non-violence and war, various authors
• V’AHAVTA, Aurora Levins Morales
• Sweeping my heart, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
• Healing the inner child, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Lived experience as a gateway to freedom, Earthlyn Zenju Manuel (video)
• Engaged Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh (video)

2019

• Advice to Emery, Charles Johnson
• We cry out for justice, Jan Willis
• The Sangha River, Thich Nhat Hanh
• How to practice loving-kindness, Joanna Hardy
• On decolonizing my mind, Yenkuei Chuang

2018

• I am a mirror, Nikki Giovanni
• Activism and self care, John Eligon
• To be a true hero, Thich Nhat Hanh
• A Zen master’s advice on coping with Trump, Thich Nhat Hanh
• For Calling The Spirit Back From Wandering The Earth In Its Human Feet, Joy Harjo
• Making the invisible visible: Healing racism in our Buddhist communities, Larry Yang
• A bit about rage, Ruth King
• Why people of color need spaces without white people, Kelsey Blackwell
• Race, racism, and the dharma, Bonnie Duran
• The confidence gap for girls Tips for parents of tween and teen girls, Claire Shipman, Katty Kay and JillEllyn Riley

Sangha Resources

• Taking Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and Elements, Marisela Gomez
• ARISE Love Letter In Response to the White Supremacist Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Those Who Perpetrated Similar Acts of Violence Across the United States, as COVID-19 Deaths Exceed 4000 in a Single Day
• Gatha for healing racial, systemic, and social inequities
• Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality (Note that the program on the video starts at 5:00 minutes. See also on YouTube. Marisela Gomez is one of the panelists, speaking on Buddhism.)
• Beginning Anew Recitation
• Beginning Anew Practice
• BBMC Song Sheet
• Community Engagement Guidelines
• Five Contemplations Before Eating
• Contemplations on the Five Mindfulness Trainings: A New Paradigm for Racial Justice and the Global Pandemic
• Five Mindfulness Trainings
• Guidelines for Dharma Sharing
• Touching of the Earth to our Land Ancestors
• Loving Kindness Meditation (Metta)
• Fourteen Verses on Meditation