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wizdUUm.net is a collective of folks who combine the mindfulness of Plum Village Buddhism with the activism of Unitarian Universalism with earth-based spiritual practices. We believe in the ability of art, song, stories, play, movement, and meditation to restore us to our whole selves. We believe in equity and inclusion and the need to actively work for them, for all humans and our sibling species. We seek alternatives to the dominant capitalist structure that turns all things into commodities.
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#Universalism is generally described as "Everyone is saved."

My take on universalism is "No one is saved unless everyone is saved."

It doesn't matter how you personally define salvation - whether it's heaven or Beloved Community or liberation - we do not achieve it unless everyone is included.

#UU #UUtheology #UnitarianUniversalism #BodhisattvaVow

Letter from ARISE Sangha regarding the continued police violence against Black and Brown lives.
https://arisesangha.org/end-police-violence/
#SociallyEngagedBuddhism #PlumVillage #PoliceViolence
End Police Violence – ARISE Sangha

If you haven't already seen them, #PlumVillage released new parallel verses for us to contemplate this year. One the many innovations that Master #ThichNhatHanh gave us was to write the verses in multiple languages, allowing different people to contemplate them in their native language.

#Buddhism #LunarNewYear

https://plumvillage.org/articles/freedom-in-every-smile-parallel-verses-for-the-lunar-new-year/

Freedom In Every Smile - Parallel Verses for the Lunar New Year | Plum Village

Plum Village offers these parallel verses to mark Tết, the Lunar New Year.

Plum Village

2/2 "So perhaps, first of all, resistance means opposition to being invaded, occupied, assaulted, and destroyed by the system. The purpose of resistance, here, is to seek the healing of yourself in order to be able to see clearly. ... I think that communities of resistance should be places where people can return to themselves more easily, where the conditions are such that they can heal themselves and recover their wholeness.”

#ThichNahtHanh
#SociallyEngagedBuddhism

1/2 “I think it [resistance] is a very meaningful term. And resistance, at root, I think, must mean more than resistance against war. It is a resistance against all kinds of things that are like war. Because living in modern society, one feels that he cannot easily retain integrity, wholeness. One is robbed permanently of humanness, the capacity of being oneself… there are so many things ... in modern life that make you lose yourself."

#ThichNhatHanh
#SociallyEngagedBuddhism

If we weren't interconnected so deeply climate change and covid wouldn't be hitting us so hard. If only these could be taken as teachers, or even mirrors, more widely.

"Living in the Beloved Community meant, for King, living in what he called “the World House,” or as Nhat Hanh would express it, “becoming a citizen of the world.”

https://tricycle.org/article/martin-luther-king-thich-nhat-hanh/

#MLK #MLKDay #ThichNhatHanh

“I Have Always Felt His Support”

A look into the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr., two brothers working to build a Beloved Community

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
#ThichNhatHanh to #MLK:
“Martin, you know something? In Vietnam they call you a bodhisattva, an enlightened being trying to awaken other living beings and help them go in the direction of compassion and understanding.”

"...Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. met for the first time in 1966; they met in person one other time before Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. They spent little time in each other’s company, and yet the energy of their meeting continues to ripple out into the world wherever people work for civil rights, peace, and community...."

https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/blog/2017/8/9/when-giants-meet

#MLK #MLKDay #ThichNhatHanh

When Giants Meet — Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation

How did Dr. King and Thich Nhat Hanh meet? And how did they come up with their ideas about peace, nonviolence, and community that were so profoundly at odds with the Western philosophy and religion of their day?

Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation