Zen Luminaries Thich Nhat Hahn and Joanna Macy Speak: How To Save Ourselves and Save Our Planet

Brought to you by Odyssey

Oct. 20, 2022 - Nov. 10, 2022 (4 Sessions)

Thursday, 6:30 PM ET

 

Course Description:

Nhat Hahn distinguished himself as a proponent of the movement he himself labelled “Engaged Buddhism,” carrying his social activism into many areas of social concern.  His last book, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, travels into diverse topics, primarily climate change.  Nhat Hahn offers us powerful tools with his many poignant, radical Zen insights and penetrating meditative practices.  Of a similar ilk, in her work Active Hope, Joanna Macy, Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist, interweaves her Buddhist  practice and scholarship with decades of social activism.  She joins with co-author Chris Johnson, medical doctor and addiction specialist, to create a guide that leads beyond despair and nihilism into active participation to help heal our world.

 

Required Texts:

Thich Nhat Hahn, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (2021),  ISBN 978-0-06-295479-4
 
Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope: How To Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy, (2012), ISBN 978-1-57731-972-6

 

Class Schedule:

Classes One and Two: Thich Nhat Hahn, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet.
As in all his work, Nhat Hahn first focuses on the work necessary for each individual for self-transformation before addressing our collective work also deemed necessary to save our world. 

Classes Three and Four:  Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope: How To Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy.  This book provides a gateway to a more integrated self through our interconnectedness with our world.

 

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Current and retired full-time Johns Hopkins faculty and staff, as well as their spouses or domestic partners, are eligible for tuition remission. Eligibility details can be found here.

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