September 2009 Blog Posts (5)

A lawyer's mission to start a compassionate revolution in canadian prisons

I am a Vancouver, BC lawyer who had a deep compassionate awakening over a year ago for my adversaries. Love and compassion helped me to see the suffering and separation caused by adversarial legal systems and this awakened a passion in me to start a compassionate revolution in prisons.



This has give birth to my blog Becoming Good In Everyone's Company and the… Continue

Added by Mark Redgwell on September 29, 2009 at 2:12pm — 1 Comment

Prison Dharma Rsearch Project

Many folks know I am doing research on Buddhist prison outreach (update: my MA thesis is almost done as is the article drawn from it). I've put up a quick survey on Survey Monkey. If you are part of an organization that provides Buddhist support to inmates could you please take the survey? It's 10 questions and should take 5 minutes. I'll have another one up for individual volunteers shortly. Thanks to all! Here's the… Continue

Added by Paul McIvor on September 29, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Shambhala Path of Social Engagement

SHAMBHALA PATH OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

with Sensei Fleet Maull



October 17 & 18, 2009



$65 ($55 Members) | Register at: www.portland.shambhala.org

See Below For Individual Event Pricing





Friday, October 17:

Socially Engaged Buddhism – A 4th Yana in Buddhism?


7:00 pm | Friday Only $15 ($12 Members)

Sensei Fleet Maull will explore the foundations and current expressions of Socially Engaged Buddhism in the West and… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 23, 2009 at 3:38pm — 1 Comment

PDN Community Site Steering Committe Members Needed

We are looking for folks interested in finding ways to make this site flourish! If you would like to join a committee to work on ideas ..please reply here! thanks!
Kate @ PDN

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 23, 2009 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

Prison and street, a resource

i volunteer at a drop-in center run by clients of mental health services. The staff and board are all people with serious mental health diagnoses. Many of the board are still living in the streets. Many have prison or jail in their background. I teach meditation and run a 12 step group called Double Trouble in Recovery. it is open to people with any addiction and any mental health issue they feel like talking about labelled or unlabelled. We are listed in the local AA service directory and… Continue

Added by Ed Knight on September 1, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

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