When faced with the complex and painful world situation, it
might seem hopeless – the world and its inhabitants are caught in a seemingly inescapable
web of conflict and suffering. We aspire to bring peace to this situation. The
difficulty is that we don’t know how to do this. In this delightful and
humor-filled talk, Lama Kathy Wesley describes the Buddhist view of conflict
and peacemaking. Using the words of Buddha in the Dharmapada, Shantideva
in The Way of the Bodhisattva, and Gyatsal Thogme Zangpo in The
Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva she helps us understand the source
of conflict and war. She then teaches methods for working with our minds
(especially anger and hatred) to transform conflict and bring peace into our
own hearts that we can then bring to the world at large. This wonderful
teaching is enhanced and clarified through the extensive question and answer
session Lama Kathy offers. One talk.
