Julie Nelson

Julie Nelson is a dharma teacher in the Boundless Way Zen school and an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She writes widely on issues of economics, ethics, feminism, and ecology.

Dharma Talks

Taking Vows, Attaining Nothing: A Zen Perspective on Personal and Social Projects

By Julie Nelson

Jul 2018

Magazine Body & Mind

Sick and Useless Zen

A foggy brain and chronic fatigue opened up my practice and showed me a new kind of full and vital life.

By Julie Nelson

Summer 2018

Trike Daily

Opinion: Are Corporations Anti-Dharma?

A corporate lawyer and an economist explain why certainty about the greed of corporations should make a Buddhist nervous.

By Julie Nelson, Jeff Seul

Mar 10, 2017

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Taking and Sending in Difficult Times

A corporate lawyer and an economist explain why certainty about the greed of corporations should make a Buddhist nervous.

By Ken McLeod

Mar 07, 2021

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The Buddhist Review

Visiting Teacher: Guo Gu

In this series, Julie Nelson, an economics professor and a dharma teacher in the Boundless Way Zen school, will talk about how the concept of nonattainment can transform the way we work with our desires, intentions, and deeply felt commitments, examining our longing for happiness and health and our aspirations for social, economic, and environmental justice.

By The Editors

Spring 2021

Dharma Talks

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Meditation Month 2021: Silent Illumination

Guo Gu

Mar 2021

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