For nearly a year, a small group has gathered each Wednesday through the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy and merged with the Reflective Meditation daily online sangha. We meditate together, but we don’t meditate away from the world. We bring the world into practice....
In the US we live in a representative democracy—imperfect, but real. Citizens elect officials who represent our ideas and concerns, again imperfectly. Democracies need to be nurtured and protected. Their credibility rests on the willingness to accept criticism,...