Schedule: Wednesday, Feb. 19; 7-9 p.m.

Tuition: $15 before Feb. 12, $20 after

Enrollment: 10 min./35 max.

Can Buddhists be social justice activists? Is activism complementary – or opposed – to Buddhist teaching? Does a spiritual path that teaches “accepting all causes and conditions” allow advocating for change? Can a Buddhist speak out against people’s actions even while cultivating compassion for all beings? We will explore these seemingly contradictory tensions, and discuss social justice activism through the lens of Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, and Bodhisattva Precepts.

A San Antonio native, Thomas Bruner has traveled from CEO of a start-up in Texas, to Vice President of the nation’s largest humanitarian organization in Washington, D.C., to consultant helping businesses and organizations do great work in leadership and governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and financial development through Bruner Strategies. He is a senior lay disciple at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon, one of the country’s leading Soto Zen Buddhist temples. He became a Buddhist in 2003 and took the late Kyogen Carlson, Sensei, as his teacher in 2006.

Register here.