Communities of Care
What we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of interconnectedness
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Pamela Ayo Yetunde is a Community Dharma Leader, Zen student, chaplain, pastoral counselor, and professor. She is the founder of Marabella StoryCraft.
Black, Buddhist, and Free
The editors of the anthology Black and Buddhist on what the dharma can teach us about race, suffering, and freedom
Prepared for Acquittals, Relieved by the Verdict, Preparing for Transformation
Pamela Ayo Yetunde reflects on the Chauvin verdict and what comes next
Buddhist Justice Reporter and the George Floyd Trials
Introducing the BIPOC Buddhist teachers, writers, and lawyers who are covering the criminal proceedings and creating an engaged dharma for Black Lives
Podcasts
Casting Indra’s Net
In this episode of Life As It Is, chaplain and activist Pamela Ayo Yetunde discusses how distraction and delusion keep us from our true purpose of caring for one another.
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On Being Black and Buddhist in America
Race-based suffering, resilience, and transformation are at the core of a new collection of “freedom stories” written by Black Buddhist voices. In our latest episode of Tricycle Talks, editor and publisher James Shaheen speaks about what it means to be Black and Buddhist in America with Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl Giles, coeditors of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom.
In this conversation, Yetunde, a pastoral counselor and practitioner in the Zen and Insight traditions, and Giles, a professor of pastoral care and counseling at Harvard Divinity School and clinical psychologist, examine racial ignorance and color blindness in Buddhist communities as well as how their dharma practice has helped them to reaffirm and celebrate their Blackness. Together, they reflect on how this anthology of liberation stories can offer all practitioners, regardless of race, a different way of being—of relating to ignorance, anger, trauma, fear, and pain.
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