Are you feeling overwhelmed by rising oppression and autocracy around the world? Whether you’re fighting a dictator or just trying to improve your neighborhood, Blueprint for Revolution is a worthw…| Unsolicited Feedback
On Thursday, October 2nd, the International Day of Nonviolence, protest demonstrations were held in numerous cities around the world in solidarity with thousands of citizens once again filled the area around the port for an encampment where an assembly was organized to coordinate the protest and plan new activities for the coming days. According to the organizers, the intention is to maintain the space as a permanent mobilization center against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.| Pressenza
The March for Australia rallies held across the country worry me deeply. We need to find responses that that open space for dialogue, connection, and understanding: approaches that show, in both w…| Sustaining Community
I’m still coming down from the excitement of Rising Tide’s 10-day protestival and people’s blockade of the world’s largest coal. It was such an amazing action. Continue reading →| Sustaining Community
Our book on the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) around the world - with chapters from 62 authors in 21 countries - is now available! Continue reading →| Sustaining Community
Yesterday I was one of 50 people arrested during an action calling for no new coal. This is why. Continue reading →| Sustaining Community
Scott Snibbe offers a talk and meditation to the Train a Happy Mind community on the question, Is enlightenment possible? The post Is Enlightenment Possible? #200 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This is a guided meditation from the wonderful Venerable René Feusi. His loving guidance will open the warm heart of awareness within you.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Venerable René Feusi talks about how focused awareness can help us live with joy—not just in meditation, but walking, sipping tea, listening to music, or even playing with your cat. The post Concentration Makes Us Happy! with Ven. Rene Feusi #198 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This 20 minute guided meditation is based on the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim, offering a nonreligious way to train a happy mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Tenzin Chogkyi talks about one of the six perfections, enthusiasm or joyful effort, and how to maintain our joy in daily life.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Join Scott for this meditation that summarizes every step of the path from the preciousness of life to the interdependent nature of reality.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Susan Piver leads a short breath awareness meditation; if you were to go down the Buddhist path, you would start with this practice.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Susan Piver talks about her new book, Inexplicable Joy, which explores one of Buddhism's most famous and mysterious texts, the heart sutra.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Transformative activist and restorative justice advocate Kazu Haga talks about his new book, Fierce Vulnerability.| How to Train a Happy Mind
In this post, I will contradict the purported scriptural basis for complete nonresistance and point out and explain some more of Jesus’ hyperbole used in Matthew chapter 5. This post is a follow-on, building upon my first post in this series. If you haven’t read it, you will want to read it first. My Mennonite … Continue reading Do we “Resist the devil” or “Resist not evil”?| Laughing at Feminism
What is the role of the ethical principles in the Talmud in creating modern Jewish thought? Gerald (Yaakov) Blidstein, a former Professor at Ben Gurion University thought that these principles sat uneasily into the Talmud with its former system of … Continue reading →| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
The Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation—one of the two institutional pillars of this project, along with the University of Co…| Counting Crowds
Apart from praying and proclaiming the Word, is a Christian to remain mute in the face of evil throughout the world? Psalm 139 gives a valuable example. Written in the aftermath of the Exile, there…| Constantly Reforming
