The System Stinks, Volume 5: Getting Real About Nonviolence

In our final installment of The System Stinks curriculum in 2013, we turn our attention to Buddhism's First Precept: to refrain from killing.

Inside Volume 5: Getting Real about Nonviolence

Now released: Our recorded members call with Nathan Schneider, co-founder of Waging NonviolenceRevolutionary Enlightenment: A Practice Offering from spiritual teacher Sage Mahosadha, who shares an innovative, real-world practice offering, challenging stereotypes of what awakening looks like.FALN Meditator: Terrorist or Patriot. Lucy Rodriguez, imprisoned 19 years for her actions with the Puerto Rican Liberation Movement, speaks to us from the Turning Wheel magazine archives.Thoughtful questions for solo reflection or group discussion from some of our favorite essays and first-person accounts from this theme on Turning Wheel Media;and more.The latest volume of our year-long Buddhist-activist curriculum, The System Stinks, is here!

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(Please give us up to a week to link you up with password for this and all previous study guides.  Thank you for your patience!)Thank you for connecting your practice to the movements of today, BPFers. The world needs it! It is an honor to bring you cutting-edge Buddhist media for social justice, from diverse voices! May it be of benefit to your practice, and contribute in some small way to the liberation of all beings. Metta and solidarity,Katie and DawnCo-Directors