Our Goals

Our practice of contemplation and social action is guided by our intentions to:

• Recognize the interdependence of all beings
• Meet suffering directly and with compassion
• Appreciate the importance of not clinging to views and outcomes
• Work with Buddhists from all traditions
• Connect individual and social transformation
• Realize the connection between individual and social transformation
• Practice nonviolence
• Use participatory decision-making techniques
• Protect and extend human rights
• Support gender and racial equality, and challenge all forms of unjust discrimination
• Work for economic justice and the end of poverty
• Work for a sustainable environment