For someone with a traumatized nervous system, sitting in silence isn’t always the right response.

Economies have no essential nature. Once this is recognized, many more opportunities for change present themselves.

Oppositional thinking is crucial to social change, but there are no permanent enemies.

Why do Westerners go to extremes in following Eastern spiritual paths?

In an age of increasing environmental destruction, Buddhism can inspire the ecological awareness that’s necessary for a more balanced existence. 

When politics and economics are based on the worst aspects of human nature, societies become riddled with inequality and violence. All institutions mirror the motivations that make them work.

Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma: her mother had done something in a past life to deserve the violence. Now, as a radical feminist lesbian, she teaches activists that Buddhism can be a way to fight oppression