Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

Yes, We Can Have Hope

A GOOD PART OF MY LIFE has been spent relating to situations that might be deemed hopeless—as an anti-war activist, a civil rights worker, a caregiver of dying people. I have also volunteered with death row inmates, served in medical clinics in remote areas of the Himalayas—where life is hard, food is scarce, and access to health care is nil—and worked in Kathmandu with Rohingya refugees

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