Just released! Hear from a diverse crew of BPFers who went to Standing Rock this fall in solidarity with indigenous leaders against the Dakota Access Pipeline -- including YiLing Cheng and Aaron Goggans from our 2016 Block+Build+Be retreat, and socially engaged dharma teachers Venerable Dr. Pannavati and Thanissara.

Standing Rock is one of the most significant movements of our time, and the opportunity to go there has been a tremendous gift. Join BPF on Wednesday, December 7th for an online reportback from BPFers and friends.

Join BPF and the Environmentalist Group of the Zen Buddhist Temple, Ann Arbor, for a two-day September workshop to develop inspiring responses to injustice guided by spiritual wisdom and political awareness.

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

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

As the Pope makes an historic statement on climate change, and Co-Director Dawn Haney prepares to go to Rome for an interfaith convergence of emerging leaders, we're curious: what do BPFers think about the strategic role of interfaith organizing?

Sometimes wise action means blocking the doors to a police weapons expo. Support Buddhists learning dharma wisdom and nonviolent action tools for social justice.

Buddhists, Native Americans, and white environmentalists unite against fracking in California.

The real Martin Luther King Jr. was angry about injustice, radical in his politics and militant in his tactics. Kazu Haga, dharma practitioner and Kingian nonviolence teacher, explains.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship used the peacefulness of our sitting meditation posture to interrupt the flow of foot traffic at the downtown Oakland Marriott Hotel, which was hosting Urban Shield, a weapons expo and militarized training site for police. The Marriott was not happy with our peaceful protest, and immediately called the cops to remove us. Still, we continued sitting.

"Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer

For many years, the two preoccupations of my life, “meditation practice” and “environmental science”, were two streams that ran parallel to each other.

Mushim Ikeda, contributor to BPF's The System Stinks curriculum, is launching another year of the Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA 2) yearlong program at East Bay Meditation Center! Application deadline is August 15, 2014. ​