What Would Healing Look Like?

Western Dharma has only recently begun to acknowledge that anger can contain necessary wisdom, that it can be an expression of wholeness and a call to right-action. Does grief have its own unique and powerful awakening potential? Versus a mental-emotional state to be transformed, can we recognize extended grief as an especially persistent teacher?

In this moving presentation, Belvie Rooks shares with us her exploration of the Dharma of immense and intersecting griefs. She draws on Thích Nhất Hạnh’s prediction of a collective Buddha, on her grandmother’s generosity and wisdom, and on the poetry of Alice Walker in this talk on reconciling the irreconcilable.