A Dharma Talk on School Shootings and the Sense of Disconnection

One day after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, bhikkhuni Ayya Dhammadipa shared a teaching confronting the massacre. The post A Dharma Talk on School Shootings and the Sense of Disconnection appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

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A Dharma Talk on School Shootings and the Sense of Disconnection

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One day after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, bhikkhuni Ayya Dhammadipa shared a teaching confronting the massacre.

By Ayya DhammadīpāMay 27, 2022

On Wednesday, May 24, one day after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed nineteen children and two adults, bhikkhuni Ayya Dhammadipa, founder of Dassanaya Buddhist Community in Alexandria, Virginia, shared a dharma talk that confronts the horror of this massacre and the 27 school shootings that have happened in the United States so far this year. Also acknowledging the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York that occurred just ten days prior, Ayya Dhammapida discusses what the dharma can teach us about understanding these shootings, focusing on the impact of a sense of separation, which, when it becomes hardened and painful, leads to a dehumanization of others.

School shootings and the sense of disconnection from dana elliott on Vimeo.

This dharma talk originally appeared here on the Dassanaya Buddhist Community’s website.

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Ayya Dhammadīpā is the founder of Dassanaya Buddhist Community. She is a dual lineage teacher - a fully ordained bhikkhuni in the Theravada tradition, and a Dharma transmitted teacher in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage of Soto Zen. The shift in her practice from Zen to the Theravada tradition is a natural extension of her longtime metta practice and study of the Pali suttas. Ayya has been practicing Buddhism since 1987. In addition to English, she teaches in Spanish, an expression of her Latin heritage. Ayya is also an author. Her recent book is titled, Gifts Greater Than the Oceans: Benefits of the Buddhist Practice of Giving.