Save Our Democracy: Compassionate Activism for November and Beyond

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Looking for a way to make a difference in the 2024 election? We all have a role to play in building a more just and compassionate democracy.
Join Jon Kabat-Zinn, Fania Davis, Konda Mason, Tara Brach, Reggie Hubbard, Jack Kornfield, Maurice Mitchell, Jane Hirshfield, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ben Wikler, Mushim Ikeda, and other special guests for a gathering of visionary and inspiring talks, reflections, and music to raise funds for pro-democracy action in key swing states.
The stakes could not be higher for the 2024 presidential election. Together, let’s mobilize compassionate activism for a pro-democracy outcome in November and beyond.
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Our efforts are magnified when we engage with others who share our concerns and hopes for the future of our country. Invite a group of friends, family, or people from your dharma community to watch this event with you, and commit - together - to the ways you will align your spiritual practice with civic engagement ahead of the 2024 election, and beyond.
Consider the following questions as a group after you’ve watched the event:
1. What do you care most about that’s at stake in the upcoming election?
2. What most inspired you about the event and speakers?
3. What engagement will be rewarding for you as you prepare to support a pro-democracy future? Volunteering? Donating to campaigns and organizations? Becoming a poll worker or election monitor? Driving people to the polls?
Hosted by
Tara Brach
James Baraz
Konda Mason
Reggie Hubbard
Jack Kornfield
Rick Hanson
Gullu Singh
Aaron Goldzimer

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@davehilljr.coaching 26 күн бұрын

I really resonated with many of the words and especially Roshi Joan Halifax. I summarized her four recommendations here for my notes in case this is helpful. 1. Clearing the mind of psychosocial debris through practices like love, art, and nature, while staying aligned with values of integrity and care. 2. Educating oneself about strategies of transmissional delusion, such as information noise, gish gallop, and moral outrage, and understanding how these tactics manipulate public perception. 3. Maintaining communities of care that are grounded in conscientiousness and compassion, fostering connection and responding to suffering as wise communities. 4. Engaging in action, building relationships across divides, and actively participating in democratic processes, such as voting and organizing.

@juliablair1265 Ай бұрын

We cannot go back, I will do my part to help keep Democracy afloat.

@marylouquinn4987 Ай бұрын

I just happened upon this terrific zoom conference and feel a deep connection to the group and the mission. Bless us all. We are One!

@mmark5706 Ай бұрын

I agree Tara we can no longer separate politics when OUR world has gone backwards in horrific ways. We're experiencing more and more isms than ever. Cory Booker is an amazing human being & politician. He's always the voice of Hope. I wish he was running again. I hope hes still speaking at this event

@s.terris9537 Ай бұрын

Melanie de More thank you! Jane, thank you. Mushim, Tara, Joan, all of you today, thank you for the hope, for the gathering, for caring.

@martham4705 Ай бұрын

Gratitude for these perspectives. Keep em comin'. ❤ Come together now. There is only NOW.

@mena48 Ай бұрын

Thank you Jon Kabat-Zinn.for your integrity, courage, compassion ❣ Thank you to One and All.❣

@testerjtester1 Ай бұрын

Thank you Tara, Jack, Konda, Maurice, and the rest... you've been an inspiration. Much gratitude for bravely sharing your perspectives on the current crisis, and a path forward, with compassion for all.💡

@trudygoodman8532 Ай бұрын

Thank you Maurice Mitchell for reminding us - together we can do what France did. All the folks who don't like the Democratic party or who want to divide the vote, I do feel you -- and just for this election, may we vote together!

@emilytroemel599 Ай бұрын

Brilliant and inspiring gathering. Thank you!

@Xaxtarr_Neonraven Ай бұрын

The problem of "evil" is profound. In personality disorders, resistance to "beginner's mind," resistance to changing, to learning and to behaving contrary to "identity" creates interpersonal and cooperational difficulties. Part of the answer to mitigating these problems is to remain in "wise mind," to create space through mindfulness from our own fearful, lashing-out, reactive selves. This creates space between us and the "damage" of non-adaptive close-mindedness. Limiting the spread of pathogens is an effective response in pathology. In the same way, compassion helps mitigate psychological harm and is always the simplest path towards "wise mindedness" and "beginner's mind." 💙

@jenb9274 Ай бұрын

Wow! What a sad day. Truly America has reached a new low.

@sisterdiggins Ай бұрын

Yes Maurice ! 100 percent !

@onlyhummingalong Ай бұрын

very good program. I especially loved the closing remarks by Konda Mason.

@ann5944 Ай бұрын

thank you for uploading this, tara 💙

@woodspriteful Ай бұрын

I accept that this country has been dissolving for a long time, and I am prepared to do my spiritual advocacy in any context, even if that may be a state within the former United States of America. We cannot accept tyranny but we cannot force unity. Remembering and renewing our communities is important either way. I have come to this realization for many reasons but especially after being a victim of judicial immunity. Immune cops and judges violate our constitutional rights everyday; who is going to regulate them in all their power and immunity? This is happening with a democratic president in place. A lot needs to be dismantled even if a democratic president is in place. Has anyone looked into how the Democratic party actually works procedurally? Are you aware that when Bernie sued them, they won their argument that legally they don't have to follow their bylaws and fulfill their promise to function as a democratic organization. It's time to shift the paradigm and accept greater collapse. Vision, vision, vision. Community, community, community. Regular people are not as hateful as you think they are; the systems are.

@marygp3499 Ай бұрын

in reply to Jack earlier...What is love asking from me now? to Act, however I can to honor and help protect what so many died for many years ago

@gin6752 Ай бұрын

Thank you with the questions.

@sagebutterfly2 Ай бұрын

The "OMMMM" that lit up the world. We can do this. Together. In Love.

@ann5944 Ай бұрын

wow konda's words 💗 hit me strongly

@sherwpinkhair Ай бұрын

quite stirring, very inspirational to get busy with good trouble

@lauravs9754 Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@monicajenkins438 Ай бұрын

❤

@catherinerule722 Ай бұрын

Wow I’m inspired and not alone

@ann5944 Ай бұрын

not alone 💙

@eluthy9516 Ай бұрын

Very moving, I have felt alone as a Buddhist who is working to save Democracy and the Planet. This presentation felt like a salve for my isolation from my Dharma community who are passive.

@heyjude9230 Ай бұрын

💚🙏

@patriciafrain9174 Ай бұрын

Im listening from Canada. And from my Canadian perspective I want to say thank you! I’m filled with admiration,gratitude, and hope for all you are doing to ensure the US remsins a democracy. 🙏❤️

@user-jl7zh1fm7j Ай бұрын

How do we write post cards to unregistered voters?

@oaklandkaplans6 29 күн бұрын

Commit to Democracy is an organization doing postcards

@junewilliams7220 Ай бұрын

💜🌷💜🌷💜🌷💜🌷💜🌷

@georgiefox271 Ай бұрын

Beloved Tara ❤️ Living in the Uk and having been aware of Marianne Williamson’s potential candidacy can you explain why no one here is mentioning her as a possible contender??? I find this really strange or am I missing something ? 🤔🙃🤔🥰 🙏🏻❤️🕉❤️🙏🏻

@MF-xp9tq Ай бұрын

One problem with the political aspect of the U.S., is that unlike European countries, which have several political parties, the U.S., has only two major political parties. A third party candidate has never won a presidential election. Hence, we have only 2 major political parties.

@rainbowcornelia4378 Ай бұрын

Thank you for inspiring me and giving me hope …together we can do this…YES

@martham4705 Ай бұрын

We can create the outcomes we want. We have the power- like the flap of a butterfly wing...we are powerful. Everything is connected.

@r.swartz7876 Ай бұрын

I left the Democratic Party in 2012 when they prevented my candidate, Dr. Jill Stein by arresting her and her runing mate to prevent them from entering the debate. I am unapologetically registered Green because i Democratic Party left me. Peace be with all of you.

@martham4705 Ай бұрын

Did you even watch the video? ❤

@Musecollective Ай бұрын

Stein is a fair choice! Push for Green! The future is green!! ✌️💚💚

@RichardNorton105 Ай бұрын

What was she doing ar Putins dinner?

@johnkilborn8050 Ай бұрын

So true the message of love thankee

@user-jl7zh1fm7j Ай бұрын

Where was Sen Cory Booker? Appreciate all the speakers very much but this was false advertising??... :(

@Musecollective Ай бұрын

Jill Stein is the only unpaid candidate! And we need green action yesterday! 💚💚💚💚💚✌️

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

I agree!! She and RFK is so so much better than Biden or Trump, or their parties! They live compassion - not the war monger Biden or the Dem party or the Repubs... :(

@heatherhowell241 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Lottar Ай бұрын

I appreciate your work Tara, you've been a grounding beacon of compassion for me in many periods of my life and I'm greatful. However, respectfully, I think you have been unknowingly hijacked by those who weaponize compassion. I'm sadly quite sure there is no one or way to discuss this in a useful way, certainly not through KZfaq comments, so with this, I'm afraid I must unsubscribe and say goodbye. I wish you peace, health, and an open path.

@gb1174 Ай бұрын

Many spiritual people haven’t developed their aspect of rational intelligence which is as divine as any other aspects of us.

@Lottar Ай бұрын

@@gb1174 I'm not sure it's under developed rational intelligence - we've all had to adjust our informational immune system over the past decade, and those who have not have been at high risk of being sucked into one of the narratives, no matter their rational intelligence. When concepts your spiritual practice revolves around are weaponized by some of those narratives, a weak immune system makes you even more likely to fall victim. This is hard for me to watch, because I see compassion coopted, not only corrupting it, but also preventing it from being practiced where it is needed most - at least to my opinion.

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

@@gb1174 Very true. It is sad and a bit scary too....

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

@@Lottar very well said... Sometimes I lose hope in humanity on this planet Earth... But trust at least we are on this plane for some reason or another.

@Ggianni10 Ай бұрын

Democracy was saved today, Trump 2024 ✊🏻 Namaste🙏🏻

@monikashealingyoga4853 Ай бұрын

The system is broken and RFK is the only one worth voting for President. He speaks from a place of compassion, shuns divisiveness and understands that we cannot continue like this.

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

Yes as far as I see - he is much more compassionate than the Dem party these days. This is sad that Tara and these people don't see it. Tho I know a Lama and other Buddhist teachers that agree the current Dem party isn't helpful at all.

@norareikinurse Ай бұрын

I don't have access to the zoom chat to see how to donate to the swing state initiative. I am watching the KZfaq.

@gsftom Ай бұрын

Oh boy…. Join up with the spiritualism of Hollywood and MSM 🙂.

@kayewilliams4517 Ай бұрын

Kennedy 2024!!!

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

🙏🏽

@J0eyme0w Ай бұрын

Cannot listen to this trash. Left or right, it is a different wing of the same bird. Both are corrupt. I don't understand how this is about compassion, the energy is divisive and has an agenda to steer people against the right. Not at all what compassionate activism entails. Very disappointing!

@aaronking1782 Ай бұрын

Agree with this. The woke consciousness is not the frequency of love. Tara, I am really surprised you have been infected by this.

@gb1174 Ай бұрын

@@aaronking1782 Tara unfortunately revealed herself to be a hypocrite and loves to delete valid comments. There is simple no reasoning with them. That love they are all obsessed with and preach of? It also encompasses those they are passive aggressively standing against you know? But love only suits them when it is convenient.

@MF-xp9tq Ай бұрын

@@aaronking1782 What does the word "woke" mean to you?

@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Ай бұрын

It is very sad indeed. I love Tara's teaching so much, but this is so disappointing.

@JagLady9 24 күн бұрын

@@aaronking1782 I really agree with this, too. I could barely listen to this as it felt very divisive. Tara's contribution was the only one for me that resonated with the frequency of love and I deeply felt her presence (as usual), but I too suspect she's now been infected with this woke consciousness, otherwise I don't think she would be participating in this conference.