Be the Change Radio

A conversation worth listening to again: Amy Shoko Brown on Practicing One Thing  

Further conversation with Amy Shoko Brown on the Four Immeasurables: Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity. In this Christmas season, how can we bring light to our dark places?

Amy Shoko Brown on the Four Immeasurables: Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity. The four immeasurables, also known as the Brahma Viharas are found in one brief and beautiful prayer: May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes, May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes, May all sentient beings never be [...]

Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal: An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer returns to discuss principles of healing and her own ongoing journey following treatments for three distinct cancer diagnoses.

Amy Shoko Brown discusses how to be the change that you want to see in the world by developing simple daily practices of wisdom and compassion. What is practice? It is regular, diligent, focused action. Practice can be yoga, prayer, taking a walk, washing the dishes or simply greeting your loved ones affectionately each morning [...]

Julie talks with Be the Change co-host Amy Shoko Brown about Amy’s work with helping people Be the Change that they want to see in the world. Amy helps people release negative conditioning patterns, learned over time and/or reinforced by overwhelming events, opening up new possibilities for growth and change. Amy also talked about trauma [...]

Dr. Stephanie Kaza, Director of Environmental Studies and Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont talks with us about approaching “green living” from a contemplative perspective, acknowledging the interdependence of all things. She encourages us to take action at whatever level resonates with us: in our homes, our towns, our state, [...]

Listen: Be the Change 2010-09-22 Amy and Julie discuss the change of seasons and how we, in our human bodies, are part of that change.

Listen: Be the Change 2010-06-09 Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei, is the spiritual director of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, and the abbot of the Zen Center of NYC. Among other projects, Shugen is concerned with fostering an integration of religious practice with environmental awareness.

Listen: Be the Change 2010-04-14 Jody Hojin Kimmel is a Dharma Holder at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, NY and a long-time (life-time) ceramicist and visual artist.