What would it mean to set healthy boundaries against Trump's violent rhetoric?

As Buddhists or spiritual people committed to justice, what can we do about hateful, ultra-conservative, quasi-fascist movements like the rise of Donald Trump?

For Chinese Americans responding to the conviction of officer Peter Liang, does identity trump ethics?

Reflections on the pitfalls of a Buddhist makeover. 5 BPFers — Funie Hsu, Kate Johnson, Dedunu Sylvia, Katie Loncke, and The Angry Asian Buddhist himself — respond.

Can nonviolent direct action help stop gentrification and displacement in its tracks? In one town shaken by a housing crises, a fight to stop luxury condo construction turned into a campaign for more affordable housing. And BPFers joined in!

Dismantling racism takes both inner and outer work. What has BPF been up to in 2015 for racial justice?

BPF heads to Mid City Zen Center for our first 2-day Dharma & Direct Action training in New Orleans.

When DC / Maryland / Virginia Buddhists gather before the White House for racial justice, spiritual and political wisdom combine openly for a greater good.

Authors of the recently-gone-viral diatribe "Corporate Mindfulness Is Bullshit" examine whiteness in the Mindfulness movement. How does whiteness inform the common question, "Was the Buddha really Buddhist?"

Join us for a weekend NYC intensive on Dharma & Direct Action, building concrete skills for compassionate confrontation. In a world tormented by racism, sexism, climate disasters, economic oppression, and more — learn how to develop inspiring responses guided by spiritual wisdom, political awareness, and a bodhisattva's vow for collective liberation.

As a white person, I’m feeling the importance right now of addressing my fellow white people. This shit is deep, friends. White privilege is not isolated events, and it’s not something we can just disavow. White supremacy is not just the KKK, and it won’t stop hurting people because we wish it so.

Stefani Cox: At its heart, the problem with police violence goes down to the root of psychology and the base of our human compassion for one another. Nothing we do on the surface alone will end racism; we need to also get at those human roots. Practicing lovingkindness meditation is a good place to start.

There's only one road to Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Even in remote settings, how can we practice compassionate confrontation around issues of justice, no matter where we are? Can monastic communities be a place to practice prefigurative interventions, where we imagine and try out the kinds of worlds we want to live in?

Anna Gibson on how and why it is important to persist with activism in spite of jeering and even outright disapproval.

BPF Co-Director Katie Loncke and Board member Sierra Pickett from Oakland, CA, have been asked to join the first-ever U.S. Buddhist White House Conference and give a presentation on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

On Dawn’s professional and personal journey to the Director role, BPF as an institution, and current issues and topics within mindfulness and Buddhism — including racism, community activism, and gendered violence from a Buddhist perspective.

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Do Asian-American Buddhists pray to shrines for good S.A.T. scores? Buddhist Peace Fellowship board member Funie Hsu talks with Arun — creator of Angry Asian Buddhist — about Orientalism, racism, and the causes and conditions for all this anger.