The Lotus in the Fire
We live in times of danger and uprising. Buddhist principles and practices are a rich source of insight, transformation, perspective and peace. What is compassionate action in the midst of injustice, brutality, and ignorance? The lotus grows from recycled refuse. We use all of what we experience—from despair to anger, from grief to love— to transform anguish and protect all beings. Join me, Joseph Bobrow, for lively, in-depth, personal conversations, as we realize the lotus in the midst of a world on fire.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2020
Activating the Power of the Beloved Community
Join Kazu Haga, author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, and me as we delve into the nature of personal, social and ecological change, healing trauma, and the intersecti…
Radical Change— with Roots in the Soil of Relationships
Join me for a most stimulating conversation on the origins and nature of genuine change with Kritee, climate scientist, socioecological community activist, Zen priest, original, integrative thinker, …
The Power of Compassion in the Face of Anguish
Join me for an illuminating conversation with Donald Rothberg on living a responsive, integrated, empowered life in the face of multidimensional upheaval. Donald is a teacher and writer on meditatio…
Momentum to Seed a New World
":...If in your country, all hope is lost in the heat of summer / the snows in my country help you to get it back." —Rafael Alberti
Today I'm joined on the pod by my friend and Dharma sister Mushim I…
The Undying Quality of the Human Spirit
Join me as I welcome Tenzin Tethong, formerly H.H. The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy and Prime Minster of the Central Tibetan Administration. Tenzin and I discuss the critical importance of free media a…
A Wild Love for the World
The incomparable Joanna Macy—author and teacher, scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology—joins Joseph for a stimulating, personal, and wide-ranging conversation. A pioneering voice in …
Your Liberation is Bound Up With Mine
Susan Murphy, Zen teacher and author of Minding the Earth, Mending the World: Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis, explores responding to the Earth's suffering, which is our own, and the indigenous n…
Eco-Activism: Human beings, Buddhism and the Biosphere
Zen teacher, eco-activist, and philosopher David Loy explores with Joseph the sense of self, its sense of lack, and the interplay of individual awakening, social transformation, and the fate of the b…
Sitting in the Midst of It
Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, author of The Book of Householder Koans, joins Joseph to explore Dharma practice in the midst of our tumultuous times, and the practice of not turning away, bearing witness…
Resistance, Community, and Radical Interconnectness
Duncan Williams, author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, joins Joseph and reflects on how crisis and anguish can remind us of how connected to each other we a…
Trailer
In this introduction I explain why I'm making the Lotus in the Fire podcast and how it might be of benefit during these times of uprising, danger, and transformation. I lay out some compelling themes…