What's the point of mixing Buddhist and spiritual teachings with a social and political (and personal) lens of what's going on in ourselves and the world? Kosen Greg Snyder dives into why we should bother - and we're joined, at the very end, by our friend and Zen teacher Rev. angel Kyodo williams, who ends the episode with her take on the subject. This episode was part of the original Awaken App conversations, recorded in 2018.
Kosen Gregory Snyder is the Senior Director and Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Union Theological Seminary, where he oversees the Master of Divinity degree program in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement as well as the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism. Professor Snyder is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and dharma-transmitted teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He co-founded and is currently the senior resident priest at the Brooklyn Zen Center and Ancestral Heart Zen Monastery in Millerton, NY. He is one of the founders of the Buddhist Action Coalition, whose mission is to organize and inspire compassionate Buddhist initiatives in advancing social, economic, and environmental justice through advocacy and nonviolent direct action.
Where you can find Kosen:
https://utsnyc.edu/faculty/greg-snyder/
https://brooklynzen.org/about/head-teacher/