Engaged Buddhism: Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi by Reverend Danny Fisher, on Jun 4, 2010, The Elephant Journal Interview. ,Appamāda.Net

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Engaged Buddhism: Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi by Reverend Danny Fisher, on Jun 4, 2010, The Elephant Journal Interview. ,Appamāda.NetEngaged Buddhism: Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi by Reverend Danny Fisher, on Jun 4, 2010, The Elephant Journal Interview.

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 To give an example: When the South Asian tsunami struck at the end of 2004, Bodhi Monastery, where I was living at the time, raised a sizeable sum of money to provide relief. I looked on Google at the lists of organizations doing relief work in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Amidst many secular, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, I could find only two Buddhist organizations, and these had roots in Asian Buddhist countries. This struck me as disturbing. I had to ask myself, “We Buddhists always speak about loving-kindness and compassion. Do we regard these as merely beautiful states of mind, or can they also issue in action?” It was this experience, simmering in the back of my mind, that led me to write my essay for Buddhadharma, and the fruit was the birth of BGR.

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