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Support our Kickstarter for Mindful Solidarity
Tuwhiri’s Kickstarter campaign to finance the production, printing, distribution and marketing of Mindful Solidarity: A Secular Buddhist Democratic Socialist Dialogue by Mike Slott runs until 23 August.
To find out how you can get early bird copies of Mindful Solidarity and support the mindful solidarity project, go to:
https://kickstarter.com/projects/tuwhiri/mindful-solidarity
What’s the book about? In short, Mike Slott asks:
How do we respond in a mindful and compassionate way to the social and political crises that we face?
Buddhist meditators and progressive political activists rarely interact, he suggests. Activists may dismiss Buddhism as irrelevant in the face of struggles for urgent political change, while many Buddhist meditators believe activists fail to recognize that human suffering arises not simply from unjust social institutions but also from our tendency toward greed, anger, and delusion.
In Mindful Solidarity, Mike Slott encourages political activists and Buddhist practitioners to connect with and learn from each other. A secular form of Buddhism and democratic socialist politics complement each other, he argues. We need to pursue both individual and social transformation.
Political activists with a meditation practice and imbued with an ethic of care will be more effective as they work to create fundamental social changes. At the same time, the Buddhist path of individual transformation is enriched by making it more ethically and socially focused.
A lifelong US political and labor movement activist, Mike Slott has been a Buddhist practitioner since 2010. He is the editor of the Secular Buddhist Network website, and also responsible for their newsletter, Rethinking the Dharma/Reimagining Community.
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SECULAR BUDDHIST NETWORK
What it’s all about
Secular Buddhist Network is an interactive space where secular dharma practitioners can share perspectives, initiatives and practices. Through the website, online course and online groups, SBN provides a resource that supports practitioners on our shared journey towards the realisation of personal and social priorities that serve all who live on this planet.
➡︎ You are invited to get involved – https://secularbuddhistnetwork.org ⁂
A DAY OF REFLECTION AND CONVERSATION
Help Bodhi College celebrate their first ten years
The four Bodhi College founders will be joined by other faculty members on Sunday 1 December, in London and online. For now, please add this date to your diary. Full details will be available in September. ⁂
DHARMA BOOK READING GROUP
What is this? Ancient questions for modern minds
Two places remain open in the next What is this? online book reading group, which is starting in September. Meeting at a suitable time for participants in the Americas and Europe/Africa, to register your interest send us an email.
When you register, we’ll send you a code to get 10% off the price of What is this? – paper or digital – through Tuwhiri’s online store.
➡︎ Download an excerpt from What is this? ⁂
SECULAR DHARMA TALK
Emotion-Focussed Mindfulness Therapy by Bill Gayner
Emotion-focused mindfulness therapy, or EFMT, is an approach to mindfulness which I’ve developed as a therapist to help people resolve inner conflicts, writes Bill Gayner. This includes situations where one part of ourself is beating up another part, or part of us is suppressing feelings. It can also be used if clients are impacted by early life trauma or are in conflict with other people. In this discussion, I’ll be covering the basics of EFMT, then comparing and contrasting it with secular Buddhism.
➡︎ Download a PDF of Bill Gayner’s talk to One Mindful Breath. ⁂
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Ngā manaakitanga,
Ramsey Margolis ❖ Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
for Tuwhiri