Social Action Without Aggression: Where Meditation Meets Social Justice
With Nick Kranz
Thursday, June 22nd from 7-9 PM
@ The Yellow Door
110 Goodman Street, Suite A3
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Cost: Free (donations appreciated)
“We have been given the task of becoming architects of a new civilization. We are actually being asked to contribute to how the world is going to be. Do we want it to be based upon aggression?” – Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
In this evening event, Shambhala Meditation Teacher Nick Kranz will offer a talk exploring the inspiration and challenges around evolving and changing social, economic, governmental, and environmental structures on a local and global level. This exploration will be grounded in a desire to relate to our communities in a more awake way.
He will also lead us in a discussion, using the practice of social meditation, a newly evolving way to experience meditation as a form of cultural interaction, which allows us to experience our individual and collective goodness.
About Shastri Nick Kranz
Nick Kranz teaches meditation internationally and has been a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since 1997. He has developed an approach to cultural transformation with the practice of Social Meditation. He also works with Youth Leadership development in the Shambhala community for the last decade. Shastri Kranz is interested in the intersection of social entrepreneurship and collaborative right livelihood. You can see his teaching schedule and video blog at www.nickkranz.com
