INDEX

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• AA. See Alcoholics Anonymous
• Abbey of Gethsemani
• ACT UP. See AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
• activism. See also specific activists; specific organizations

• AIDS

• environmental

• fast-food worker

• gun violence

• lineage

• marriage equality

• music for

• poverty

• power from

• slavery, modern

• sparks of

• violence against women
• activist burnout
• addiction

• AA for

• meditation for

• opioid

• Recovery Café helping battle

• root of
• agency

• definition and role of

• forces beyond our control impacting

• non-exclusion from

• transition toward
• agents of change
• Agler, Ellen
• AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)
• AIDS crisis
• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
• Allison, Dorothy
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Angelou, Maya
• anger

• cost of

• energy of, harnessing the

• honoring the message of

• mindfulness of

• movement beyond

• perspective on, broadening

• power of, harnessing the

• usefulness of
• apartheid
• art

• benevolent contagion and

• empathy building from

• as radical practice

• suffering in relation to
• Arts & Understanding
• asylum-seeking
• authenticity
• awakening

• of energy

• joy
• awareness

• of death

• of embodied self

• environmental

• of interconnectedness

• of suffering

• of thoughts
• Bajacu’ Boricua
• Baldwin, James
• Banaji, Mahzarin
• Barkan, Ady
• Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison)
• Bateson, Gregory
• Be More America
• Begley, Sharon
• bell hooks Institute
• benevolent contagion
• Bergman, Ingrid
• bias

• attribution

• mindfulness of

• riddle on

• tendency toward
• black people
• Bodhi, Bhikkhu
• Boorstein, Sylvia
• Boyce, Barry
• breath

• attention on

• gathering our energy and
• Brewer, Jud
• Brooklyn
• Buddha

• on eight worldly winds

• inspiration from

• on justice, fairness, and generosity

• on suffering
• Buddhism

• adjustments in applying

• on anger

• gladdening the mind technique of
• Buddhist Global Relief
• Burks, Ruth Coker
• Capehart, Jonathan
• care

• choosing to

• self
• Caring Across Generations
• Cash, Rosanne
• Catholicism
• Center for Green Schools
• Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
• Center for Transformative Change
• Chanthawong, Eakapol
• CHASRS. See Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relation Study
• Chavez, Cesar
• Chavkin, Rachel
• Chemaly, Soraya
• Chen, Cher Weixia
• Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relation Study (CHASRS)
• Cleveland, Ohio
• Cleveland Clinic
• Coleman, Mark
• colonialism
• compassion

• anger defeated with

• corps

• empathy compared to

• equanimity and

• fighting and

• from meditation

• understanding of interconnection and

• visualization on living with
• conformity
• contraction and expansion
• courage
• COVID-19
• creativity
• Crow, Jenna
• Cutler, Ken
• Cutler, Sharon
• Dalai Lama

• on art

• on love from a distance

• meditation study participation

• on motivation

• on 9/11
• Daniels, Joel
• Dass, Ram
• Daumal, René
• Davidson, Richie
• Davis, Susan
• Davis, Viola
• death
• DeChristopher, Tim
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• depression
• DeSteno, David
• disenfranchisement
• Doering, Sarah
• double bind theory
• Dutt, Mallika
• Eggers, Dave
• Einstein, Albert
• Eiseley, Loren
• Eliot, T. S.
• Emory University
• emotions. See also anger; fear; grief; joy

• being with difficult thoughts and

• equanimity of
• empathy

• art for building

• Cleveland Clinic video on

• compassion compared to

• disconnection from

• excellence, engagement, and
• END Fund
• energy

• of anger, harnessing the

• awakening of

• loss of

• placement of

• practice of gathering our
• environmental awareness/activism
• equanimity

• actions taken with

• for crossing the flood of suffering

• defining

• development of

• of emotions

• power of

• practice of cultivating

• representation of
• expansion and contraction
• Fast Food Forward
• Fast Food Justice
• fast-food workers
• fatigue
• fear

• grip of

• loneliness from
• Fences
• Fischer, Norman
• Fisher, Carrie
• Fitzgerald, Emmett
• Flamboyan Arts Fund
• Ford, Erica
• forgiveness
• Frazier, Ken
• Fredrickson, Barbara
• Freedom Fund
• Freeman, Jonathan
• Gadsby, Hannah
• Gandhi, Mahatma
• Ganz, Marshall
• Garrison Institute
• gaslighting
• George Mason University School of Integrative Studies
• gladdening the mind technique
• Goldstein, Joseph
• González, Andrés. See also Holistic Life Foundation
• goodness, measuring
• Google
• Gorski, Paul C.
• Green Belt Movement
• Greenpeace
• grief. See also pain/suffering

• defining

• freedom to express
• guilt
• Gupta, Anurag
• Guttenberg, Fred
• Gutter, Rachel
• Hadestown
• Halifax, Joan
• Hanh, Thich Nhat
• Havel, Václav
• health issues

• of loneliness

• of violence
• Hernández, Daisy
• Highlander Folk School/Research and Education Center
• Hiroshima (Japan)
• Holistic Life Foundation (HLF)

• after-school program

• on anger

• motto of

• self-care taught at
• Holocaust
• homelessness

• Recovery Café helping battle

• reflection on
• hooks, bell

• Institute

• on love

• on social action
• Horton, Myles
• Hurricane Andrew
• Hurricane Maria
• ICE detention centers
• identity

• intersectionality in relation to

• lovingkindness practice regarding

• stories influencing
• India
• Insight Meditation Society (IMS)

• PTSD at

• retreat

• story of belonging at

• vision for
• institutionalization
• intentions
• interconnectedness

• awareness of

• intersectionality leading to

• living with vision of

• love from

• movement toward

• network looking for

• teamwork and
• intersectionality
• Iowa
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jamail, Dahr
• Japan
• Jerusalem
• Jeste, Dilip
• Jim Crow laws
• Jones, Sarah
• joy

• awakening

• desire for

• practice of cultivating

• refusal of
• Judt, Tony
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Kaufman, Sari
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• Kink, Michael
• Klimecki, Olga
• Kornfield, Jack
• Krukiel, May
• Kumanyika, Chenjerai
• Latinx
• Lazarus, Emma
• LGBTQ people
• LIFE Camp
• loneliness

• fear causing

• meditation and

• pain in relation to
• love

• from a distance

• from interconnectedness

• light, darkness and

• self
• lovingkindness practice

• for embodied self

• for ourselves and others

• toward ourselves

• role of
• Luagoviña, Francisco Genkoji (“Paco”)
• Maathai, Wangari
• Macy, Joanna
• Magee, Rhonda
• Mandela, Nelson
• Mann, Sam
• March for Our Lives
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. See Parkland, Florida
• marriage equality
• mass shootings
• Maxson, Rose Lee
• McCourt, Malachy
• meditation

• for addiction

• benefits of

• compassion from

• contemplation prior to

• experimentation with

• in India, studying

• lineage

• loneliness and

• perspective from

• as social practice

• study on pain and

• as transportable tranquility
• Merck
• Merck, Friedrike
• Merton, Thomas
• #mettaminute
• Miami University, Ohio
• Mindful magazine
• mindfulness

• of anger

• of bias

• clear comprehension and

• role of

• teachers
• Miranda, Lin-Manuel
• misogyny
• Moayed, Arian
• Moyers, Bill
• Mumford, George
• Murthy, Vivek
• National Basketball Association
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• network looking
• New York City

• LIFE Camp in

• 9/11 in

• Statue of Liberty in

• subway visualization
• New York Times
• New York University
• Nichtern, Ethan
• 9/11
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Noe, Killian
• Noguera, Pedro
• North African ethnicity
• North Star
• Northeastern University
• Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
• Nottage, Lynn
• Novick, Samantha
• opioid epidemic
• Orthodox Jewish family
• Owens, Lama Rod
• pain/suffering

• avoiding extremes of

• Buddha on

• creativity and

• crossing the flood of

• gentleness with

• intimacy of

• loneliness in relation to

• meditation study regarding

• recognition and acknowledgment of

• root of

• sculpting the
• Pandita, Sayadaw U
• Papa John’s Pizza
• Parkland, Florida
• Parkland City Commission
• A People’s History of the United States (Zinn)
• perspective

• on anger, broadening

• from meditation

• reality and
• PETA
• Poo, Ai-Jen
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• poverty

• environmental depletion in relation to

• self-worth impacted by

• understanding roots of
• power

• from activism

• of anger, harnessing the

• anger transforming into

• of equanimity

• of love

• rediscovery of

• water contemplation for summoning
• presence
• PTSD. See post-traumatic stress disorder
• Puerto Rico
• purpose, sense of
• racism
• radical acts
• radical practice
• radical thinking
• Ralph Bunche Plaza
• Reagon, Bernice Johnson
• reconciliation
• Recovery Café
• resentment
• resilience

• building

• of human spirit

• insight into

• need for
• Ricard, Matthieu
• Rilke, Rainer Maria
• Salbi, Zainab
• Sales, Ruby
• salvation
• sampajanna
• sati
• Satyarthi, Kailash
• schizophrenia
• Schrijver, Iris
• Schrijver, Karel
• Seattle
• self, embodied
• self-care

• HLF teaching

• Mindful magazine on

• self-indulgence compared to

• support for, lack of
• self-exploration
• self-love
• self-protection
• self-worth

• anger as assertion of

• elevation of

• poverty impacting

• punishment of
• sex trade
• sexual abuse/assault
• shame
• shock of witnessing
• Silver, Diane
• Singer, Tania
• Sivaraksa, Sulak
• skillful action
• slavery, modern
• Smith, Ali. See also Holistic Life Foundation
• Smith, Atman. See also Holistic Life Foundation
• Smith, Rodney
• social action. See also activism
• Solnit, Rebecca
• Solomon, Marc
• Solutions Journalism
• spectrum of depletion
• Statue of Liberty
• stories. See also specific stories

• exploration of our

• identity influenced by

• negative and positive news
• stress relief patterns
• stress response
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• suffering. See pain/suffering
• survivor guilt
• system entrepreneur
• systems change approach
• teamwork
• Thoreau, Henry David
• thoughts

• awareness of

• being with difficult emotions and
• Thurman, Howard
• Thurman, Robert
• Tibbetts, Rob
• Tippett, Krista
• tranquility, transportable
• tree contemplation
• Truthout
• Tutu, Desmond
• Twain, Mark
• Twitter

• #mettaminute on

• Solutions Journalism on
• Tygielski, Shelly
• UCLA
• United Nations
• United States

• AIDS crisis in

• border

• culture of disconnection in
• University of Maryland
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Upaya Zen Center
• upekkha
• Upworthy
• Van Gogh, Vincent
• Vexler, Dan
• vicarious trauma exercise
• violence

• as public health issue

• against women
• Walker, Shantel
• Washington Post
• water

• contemplation on

• love in relation to
• Waterwell
• widow’s walk
• williams, angel Kyodo
• Wisdom 2.0
• Wolfson, Evan
• Women for Women International
• Women’s Leadership Center at Omega Institute
• World War II
• Wright, Robert
• Yad Vashem
• Yale University
• You Got to Move
• Yountz, Heather
• youth arts
• Zinn, Howard