Declaring Interdependence |
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Ethan Nichtern, the charismatic and creative force behind New York’s upstart Interdependence Project, is our guide this week to the beauty that is everywhere in the world. With pop-culture savvy, humor, and liveliness, he melds Buddhist wisdom with the great truth of interdependence that Martin Luther King, Jr. expounded to explain how we might best live together.
With special emphasis on how mindfulness and loving kindness meditation techniques awaken us to the truth of interdependence, Nichtern provides in-depth meditation instruction to help us ground our attention in the present moment. We then move from exploring our minds on the meditation cushion to applying the insights, clarity, and wisdom we gained to our own creative pursuits and larger community concerns, such as climate change and peace activism.
With a new understanding of what binds us all, we gain the skills necessary to positively change our relationship to ourself, our friends and partners, our community, and our world.
Recommended reading: Nichtern, One City; Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness; and Sakyong Mipham, Turning the Mind Into an Ally.
Ethan Nichtern, acclaimed author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence, is the founder and director of the Interdependence Project, which brings meditation principles to the arts, ecology, and community service industries. He teaches Buddhist meditation and philosophy at New School University and lectures regularly at Brown, Wesleyan, and New York Universities. theidproject.com
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