Category Archives: Shanti Sena

Micro Moments of Love

by Barbara Frederickson (Apr 12, 2013) It’s time to upgrade our view of love. First and foremost, love is an emotion, a momentary state that arises to infuse your mind and body alike. Love, like all emotions, surfaces like a distinct … Continue reading

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In The Hearts Of The Farm Workers

–by César Chávez (Apr 04, 2013) In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge nonviolence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation. [...] Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear … Continue reading

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Kindness and Rebellion

–by Sharon Salzberg (Mar 15, 2013) A friend of mine, at the end of a retreat, offered a provocative reflection that intrigued and inspired me. After looking intensively at her inner experience for nine days of meditation and seeing many of her … Continue reading

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Innocency: Emptying of the Mind of All Fear

-by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Aug 2, 2012) Is it possible for the mind to empty itself totally of fear? Fear of any kind breeds illusion, it makes the mind dull, shallow. Where there is fear there is obviously no freedom, and without freedom … Continue reading

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Cultivating Independent Opinion

“Governments [and corporations] create all this fear. They have constituted themselves protectors of the people, and the people are no longer self-reliant but depend upon the Government and expect it to protect them… Throughout the World today, the direction of education … Continue reading

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The Desert, The Resilience of Life and Our Collective Dignity

If life exists only in relationship with other life–community–and the organizing principle of life is partnership, what is being born in the middle of human crises? That’s what brought me to Arizona during the SB1070 collapse last May. I found … Continue reading

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FREE BART! Oscar Grant & the Potential of Freedom

“We as a family denounce violence in the street & destruction of property.” –Cephus Johnson (Oscar Grant’s uncle waiting for the final verdict of the now ex-police officer Johannes Mehserle who killed the 22 year old African American at the … Continue reading

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The Story of a Shanti Sena in Pictures

[On September 24th, 2009, brother Leonardo showed up to the first Walk Out at University of California at Berkeley with the intentions to disrupt it with provocations and violence. Golf clubs, a propane torch, pornographic material, cigarettes, nude display, you … Continue reading

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