On Being: Being Peace in a World of Trauma
Project Yoga’s Executive Director, Gina Fennell, added this On Being podcast to our Global Voices page and writes:
This is one of my single favorite podcasts of all time. I listened to it when it first came out in 2003 while traveling to my first silent meditation retreat. The message has stuck with me this whole time and I think it’s extremely relevant now.
The podcast features Thich Nhat Hanh, Cheri Maples, and Larry Ward.
“We live in a time when we have a very sophisticated means for communication, but communication has become very difficult between individuals and groups of people. A father cannot talk to a son, mother cannot talk to a daughter, and Israelis cannot talk to Palestinians, and Hindus cannot talk to Muslims. And that is why we have war, we have violence. That is why restoring communication is the basic work for peace, and our political and our spiritual leaders have to focus their energy on this matter.”
