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HELPING HANDS PODCAST
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The Helping Hands Podcast explores and builds upon Buddhist Global Relief’s spiritual foundation, the individual and collective work of engaged Buddhism. Please join us as we share conversations with our project partners, advisors, and spiritual friends, as well as socially conscious artists, culture workers, and prominent Buddhist teachers who support BGR and play a role in expanding our notion of compassionate action.
The Helping Hands Podcast is not only for Buddhist practitioners but for anyone who recognizes the need for compassion in action in the interconnected world that we all share.
The podcast’s host, Daniel Blake, is a New York–based jazz musician, Dharma practitioner, and BGR board member.
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All episodes of the Helping Hands Podcast
Podcast Episode 6: Planting Dharma Seeds in Uganda, with Ven. Bhante Buddharakkhita
Host Daniel Blake speaks with Ven. Bhante Buddharakkhita, founder of the Uganda Buddhist Centre.
Podcast Episode 5: That’s Where the Hope Existed, with Sister Debbie Blow
Host Daniel Blake speaks with Sister Debbie Blow, the founder of BGR project partner North Country Mission of Hope, which supports education for girls and young women in need in Nicaragua. Sister Debbie speaks about how to live with "gracious vulnerability" and how we can engage more fully with the communities we wish to serve.
Podcast Episode 4: I Am the River, The River Is Me, with David Loy
Host Daniel Blake speaks with Dr. David Loy, a professor, writer, activist, and Zen teacher. David, author of the 2019 book "Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis," speaks with Daniel about engaged Buddhism, and specifically the bodhisattva path, as it relates to the climate crisis and the future of our world.
Podcast Episode 3: Sustainable Change, One Seed at a Time, with Samuel Nderitu
Host Daniel Blake speaks with Samuel Nderitu, who, together with his wife, Peris, is co-founder and co-director of BGR partner organization G-BIACK (Grow Biointensive Agricultural Center of Kenya, www.g-biack.org). G-BIACK's mission is to help eradicate poverty and improve poor communities' health and living standards by promoting ecologically viable and sustainable agriculture and development strategies.
Podcast Episode 2: Compassion Is Like a Muscle, with Ayya Yeshe and the Poor People’s Campaign
Guest Ven. Ayya Yeshe is an Australian bhikkhuni in the Tibetan tradition. She is a founder of BGR partner the Bodhicitta Foundation, a grassroots Buddhist organization empowering young women from some of the world's poorest and most oppressed communities.
Podcast Episode 1: No Such Thing as Disengaged Buddhism, with Alan Senauke
What is an "appropriate response" for those who would practice Engaged Buddhism in today's polarized society? We speak with Hozan Alan Senauke, a Soto Zen priest, social activist, folk musician, and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center, where he currently serves as Abbot.
