Any anthology from 25 years of turning wheel the Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

The ideas behind the actions -- taking action in context of socially-engaged Buddhism. [145]

Title taken from Roshi's "seeing" without turning away from "things as it is". [145]

Dharma: See. Accept. Change.

Tools for dealing with discouragement, raising children, forgiving ourselves, finding connection and courage.

Thich Nhat Hanh. Writes of the Rodney King beating, as one who was beaten, then as one of the five policemen. Training is the practice of fear. [148] In the Majjima Nikaya , the Buddha said "This is like this, because that is like that."
He writes of the Iraq War -- 500,000 soldiers brought the casualties home. [149] And the war comes up from the basement.

The soldier who set up an ambush, and killed the children who stepped into it. The image is stored in his consciousness, and "he could not bear to be around children". It took him 12 years to come to a retreat and "practice breathing, walking, loooking, and transforming the seeds of suffering." Seeing clearly is a big part of his message.

He says "The most precious gift that parents can give to their children is their own happiness." If parents know how to be happy, children will know how to be happy and to make other people happy. [151]

Unhappiness is the root of war. [151]

Kenneth Kraft - "Wellsprings of Engaged Buddhism". Involvement in social, political, and economic affairs. Developing means to actualize ideals of wisdom and compassion in the world. [154] Points out history includes a "mixed" record--pacifist, and also allied with militarism. 155]

The principle "cherish all life" is not absolute. For example, shoot the rabid dog who is chasing children. [158] Permit wars of self-defense. Stressing the "apprehension of interdependence" and common ground with "greatest good for greatest number" outcome determinism. [159] Buddhism offers a "new model of the universe". Instead of a mechanistic view of the world as the sum of its parts, Buddhism reveals a "dynamically organic universe in which everything affects everything else." [161]

"Peace and nonviolence are ideas that transform people and nations. Peacework demands risks and sacrifices and passion. Nonviolence, in a culture as violent as ours, amount to a cultural revolution." [161]

Joanna Macy - resources for despair. Developments make the survival of the human species questionable. [162] social action taking on new dimensions. Tap into "our pain for the world", and let the pain help us listen, and "transform it into courage, compassion, and commitment to act". [162] "despair work", "interhelp", or "inner work" of social change. Suffering is a "mark of existence". Argument is an "avoidance mechanism". Dukkha "suffering", Anicca "transcient", Anatta no-self illusion, Paticca Samuppada - Buddha's central doctrine of dependent co-arising/interconnectedness.

Mushim Ideda-Nash - communicating with children/ teaching. More than just reciting the Metta Sutra (sutra on loving-kindness). Teaching your child meditation, and the "art of questioning", quoting Thurman on universal education as the "doorway to liberation, to enlightenment". [171]

Expressed a wonderful view in response to the fears of some parents about the "outside world" and its "contamination". The effort to shelter their children from the blights of the world. Her response is to trust her child's "inside world" to deal with the outside world. [173]

Robert Aiken - "About Money" [174]. Points out that money is associated with Mara, "the destroyer, who becomes fatter and fatter with each financial deal at the expene of the many beings". Interestingly, money is also associated with Kuan-yin, the incarnation of mercy, who "rescues" those same beings. Money is one of her tools.
It is Kuan-yin who sustains the poor, because "They are her teachers". A brilliant unrolling of the tapestry of life: "Checks, bills, bonds--the tokens of power--transport soluitions of sugar and salt to rescue infants from dysentery. They primed the pump of life and order eggplant Parmesan…they build the dam of energy. Moose and beavers and primal people die…[money] dances to the music of attitude. Attitude poinsons or nurtures the interbeing." [177]

Norman Fischer - Impossible Possibilities. Starts with a story from morning television, on which a woman appeared who had worked out a method "for achieving happiness" by writing in a journal every day.

"Identity and fear are powerful motivators, and they need to be respected. Probably the single most important realization that would lead to peace in the world would be this one--the recognition that we are all afraid of ceasing to be what we imagine we are." [184] ( )