The DEIA committee invites you to a community viewing of Many Sanghas, One Community. This is a course presented by the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and East Bay Meditation Centre, developed by teachers Rhonda Magee, Mushim Ikeda, and Crystal Johnson.

Decades of experience and many hours of expert design went into this labor of deep love by these three wonderful teachers, reflecting their wish to support Buddhist sanghas working to increase racial and other types of equity in their communities.

We invite you to join in deep inquiry and practice to investigate how we can create the ongoing conversation in our dharma communities and our lives that will allow us to create community spaces that provide safety, dignity and belonging to as diverse a group of people as possible. The course materials include dharma talks, panel discussions, journaling, and prompts for small group discussions, supported by embodied practices that support our capacity to be in the difficult conversations that lead to real change. 

• What do we actually mean by equity?

• What are the values, intentions and commitments that drive our pursuit of equity

• What does it mean to create sanghas that offer safety, dignity and belonging to a diverse community?

• What does it mean to practice being in “right relationship” to hierarchy and authority in our communities?

• How do we work with the intensity of emotion and pain that arises when we are intimate together?

You are invited to read "Sangha is a Verb" by Sebene Selassie prior to the first session.

And the East Bay Meditation Centre's Agreements for Multicultural Interactions