How Buddhists Can Be Activists and Peacfully Protest with Special Guest Daniel Scharpenburg {Podcast}
Update: 2025-04-07
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Today we had a long term friend and former TTB board member, Daniel Scharpenburg on our podcast!
Daniel has written a lot for The Tattooed Buddha as well as many other Buddhist magazines. He has worked for the IRS for 16 years now and he became a Union Steward in 2018 and during the COVID pandemic in 2020 he was elected as the first Vice President of his union.
He has really enjoyed being a leader and activist during this time and is taking those leadership skills as first Vice President to also be an activist for social liberation. Daniel has been a Buddhist and meditation teacher for years and is active member and Dharma Facilitator of the Rime Buddhist Center & Institute of Tibetan Studies.
We discuss the Buddhist role in politics, what role Buddhists can, and has historically played, and how to peacefully and effectively take part in protests.
“Right now it’s like this, what can I do?” is one of Daniel’s favorite Buddhist slogans.
See Daniel’s Substack here.
See Daniel’s books here. See Daniel’s writing on TTB here, and on Patheos here. Check out 50501 here.
Podcast edited by Brad Parsons at Train Sound Studio, www.trainsoundstudio.com
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