Rev. Danny Fisher

Via Molly De Shong over at Shambhala Sun Space: Our friend and past interviewee Joan Halifax Roshi plans a retreat with activist Jim Gollin at the Upaya Zen Center this November 4th-6th entitled “Politics and Compassion Election Retreat: Buddhist Perspectives on Democracy and the Environment”. The retreat is described this way:

This retreat gives us the opportunity to sit upright and explore our response to the elections of 2008. Observing the election outcome, we examine our relationship to the democratic process. What can we learn from Buddhism about our modern democracy? How do we deal with our own feelings of partisanship, self, and other? We discuss the interrelatedness of society, biology, and culture, the rights of all sentient beings and the duties of citizenship in an era of globalization and climate change.

Register online here.