Acute hunger transfixes our entire organism, pushing everything else aside in favor of our most basic urge for survival. When we’re gripped by extreme hunger, we can think of nothing but food, have no interest in anything but food, and dream of nothing other than a decent meal.
In celebration of the dawning New Year 2024, this four-session retreat featured guided meditation and Dharma talks from Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Dassanāya Buddhist Community founder Dhammadīpa, and Vens. Jin Chuan and Jin Wei of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.
By BGR Deputy Director Patricia Price • Your help allows thousands of girls to be educated equally with boys, provides school meals that incentivize parents to send their girls to school, and helps provide poor mothers with materials and instruction to learn marketable skills with which they can earn income for their families.
All of us at BGR offer our warmest and deepest thanks to all of our supporters who participated in Buddhist Global Relief’s online special event, “Creating a World That Works for Everyone.”
A report from BGR partner Insight Myanmar detailing their relief effort to bring much-neeeded rice and cooking oil to monastics living on and around Yetagun Mountain, in southern Myanmar.
The Global Compassion Coalition (GCC) was founded in 2022 to foster collaboration among individuals and organizations in a shared mission to “restore compassion and justice at the foundation of every society.”
Based in child-development centers serving low-income communities, a project with Child Action Lanka is providing healthy breakfasts to preschool children from impoverished families in Sri Lanka.
To nurture loving-kindness for others is to open the fountain of compassion, and the supreme expression of compassion in action is generosity toward those in need.
This year’s event spoke to the importance of collaboration and community in our work to create a world that honors the life and well-being of everyone on this Earth. Presenters included Rick Hanson, Raimund Hopf, Ven. Jin Chuan, Ven. Jin Wei, Roshi Joan Hoeberichts, Ayya Yeshe, and Dhammadīpā.
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