Join us on Thursday, March 2 at 7:00 PM for Dharma and Justice: Integrating Grief as Social Justice Work, featuring Paula Arai, Sarah Dōjin Emerson, and Jefre Cantu.

The pain of loss is a key feature of the Buddha’s teaching of dukkha, one of the three marks of existence, an unavoidable truth of life. Loss and the attendant grief are therefore not something to get over or through, but gateways into compassion and our shared existence. Even while grief is a universal truth, dominant culture in the US has historically and increasingly suppressed and cut off traditional ways of collectively processing grief. In this conversation, we will explore the centrality of grief on the path of liberation, and how individual and collective practices and rituals in the Buddhist tradition can support, make space for and help reclaim how we integrate loss; and in turn, be a part of reforming systems of oppression that depend on the denial and suppression of the vast histories of what we need to collectively grieve.

ASL interpretation will be provided.

Register by clicking the link HERE.