Online: Buddhist Wisdom Perspectives and the Transformation of Racism
with Donald Rothberg, PhD
Friday, August 19th, 2022 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm ET
As many Buddhist practitioners increasingly support greater diversity and inclusion in their communities, commit to their own inner work transforming the racial conditioning that they receive, and look to find ways to act in the larger society, the resources of Buddhist practice can be of great value.
In this evening talk, Donald Rothberg will focus on the core wisdom teachings of the Buddha, integrated with attention to the history of race, whiteness and blackness, and racism in the English colonies and later the United States. How are the phenomena of race and racism in particular rooted in greed and ignorance, individual and collective, that then lead to hatred and massive dukkha? How can more clarity about these wisdom teachings and historical perspectives guide our current practice to transform racism?
Donald’s perspectives are grounded in his work in socially engaged Buddhism over the last decades and his more recent offering of retreats on Buddhist practice and transforming racism (for people racialized as “white”). He has been inspired by the pioneering Buddhist work of Ruth King, Larry Yang, Gina Sharpe, Rhonda Magee, Lama Rod Owens, angel Kyodo williams, and Chenxing Han, among many others. Donald is offering this talk in honor and in the memory of his mother, Bernice, born in the Bronx, who dedicated many years of her life to working for racial justice and the eradication of poverty, in New York, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia.
The evening session will include a period of meditation, followed by a talk and discussion.
Donald Rothberg will also be leading a daylong program on Exploring and Practicing Anattā (Not-Self) on Saturday, August 20th, 2022 from 10:00am – 5:00pm ET. Click here for more info and registration
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Teacher(s)
Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD, is a member of the Teachers Council at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA, a guiding teacher for the Marin Sangha, and a regular teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, Southern Dharma Retreat Center, InsightLA, and New York Insight. He has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976 and also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice, in the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy, and in the Somatic Experiencing approach to working with trauma. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook University, he currently teaches and writes on mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, and the application of these and other practices to transforming the judgmental mind, speech and communication, working with conflict, social service, and social action. Donald is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers.