Politics Archives - Mindfulness + Magic https://erinsharaf.com/category/politics/ Transform ourselves, Transform the world Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:16:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://erinsharaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-dahliaPixaby-32x32.jpg Politics Archives - Mindfulness + Magic https://erinsharaf.com/category/politics/ 32 32 Buddhism Meets Activism: A powerful combination https://erinsharaf.com/buddhism-meets-activism/ https://erinsharaf.com/buddhism-meets-activism/#respond Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:20:49 +0000 https://erinsharaf.com/?p=5348 The day of remembrance of the honorable Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seems like a good time to deeply consider what it means to be an advocate for peace and justice, and how mindfulness and activism intersect. Dr. King was a friend and collaborator of one of my teachers Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. […]

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]]> https://erinsharaf.com/buddhism-meets-activism/feed/ 0 Dreams of Ukraine and of Freedom https://erinsharaf.com/dreams-of-ukraine-and-of-freedom/ https://erinsharaf.com/dreams-of-ukraine-and-of-freedom/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:59:39 +0000 https://erinsharaf.com/?p=5253 The year was 1992, less than a year after the fall of the Soviet Union. I was a college student on Semester at Sea, a program that took students around the world stopping in 11 different countries along the way. One of the stops was Odessa, Ukraine and it would be our longest stay at […]

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