Background & History
EBMC officially opened its doors on January 20 of this year.
What is 2007?
This is the title of Spring Washam’s book.
What is A Fierce Heart?
A goal of Buddhism and Mindfulness Teaching Programs is to add offerings to meet the expressed needs of the community to increase the intersection of these.
What are social justice, radical inclusivity, and the Dharma?
For Buddhism and Mindfulness Teaching Program, the percent of workshop participants’ ratings, racial diversity and inclusion goals, increased access are examples of these.
What are Key Performance Indicators?
EBMC envisions this kind of community of social justice & healing, grounded in Buddhism and aligned wisdom traditions.
What is a beloved community?
Before changing its name to the East Bay Meditation Center in 2005, originally incorporated as a nonprofit organization under this name.
What is the East Bay Dharma Center?
This newspaper published a 2015 article on EBMC’s inclusion practices.
What is The New York Times?
The alternative model to foster greater responsibility and belonging for EBMC members while also meeting operating costs.
What is gift economics?
A curriculum committee in the first 2 years worked to develop this to grow EBMC’s model in communities beyond Oakland.
What is a fee-for-service intensive training?
We are committed to social justice, gift economics, shared leadership, and radical inclusivity as expressions of this.
What is socially engaged Buddhism in action?
The EBMC mission is to foster liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and this.
What is inclusive community building?
In a New York Times interview, this band’s member, Merrill Garbus, credited EMBC’s WAS (White & Awakening Sangha), with helping them rethink whiteness.
What is Tune-Yards?
Everyone in the EBMC community will understand the purpose, principles, and structures of this in order to skillfully practice and engage in the wide range of opportunities.
What is shared leadership?
This exploratory committee will research and analyze how to stabilize and evolve space, evolve programming and consider different organizational structures & partnerships during this time frame.
What are years 1 and 2?
Refraining from the spiritual bypass of declaring too quickly that “we are all One,” EBMC acknowledges the deep value and significance of these.
What are the identify-based affinity and refuge practice groups?
EBMC moved to its current location in October of this year.
What is 2012?
This EBMC founding teacher published our Agreements of Multicultural Interactions in the appendix of his book.
Who is Larry Yang?
By creating practices that strengthen the connection between the sharing of Buddhist teachings, the development of Sangha providing refuge for activists, EBMC will be a beacon for these two.
What are Social Justice and Healing?
Because of this rapid socio-economic phenomenon that is transforming Oakland (as well as other urban areas), there is concern that EBMC will be priced/pushed out of the current accessible site.
What is gentrification?
As in a healthy biological ecosystem, EBMC’s ability to thrive is rooted in these three principles to the larger environment.
What are interdependence, diversity, and connection?
The year the Center was founded.
What is 2001?
This Core Teacher published poetry in the foundational 1983 anthology Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, and continues to write poetry today.
Who is Mushim Patricia Ikeda?
Although staff, board and volunteers are extremely dedicated and resourceful in running EBMC, there are concerns about overwhelm and this, for which we can take a vow to not.
What is burn out?
EBMC's current lease ends in this month and year.
What is October of 2022?
A set of practices that together embody the inherent worth and dignity of each life and reaffirm a sense of belonging and interbeing to that we might individually and collectively reach our fullest potential.
What is radical inclusivity?