NO. 50 Discernment, Justice, and Mindfulness with JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation practitioner and teacher, a founding member of the Meditation Coalition, a social justice advocate, and a collaborator on many online meditation programs. She shares so much wisdom in this episode, where we discuss:
Her journey of rebellion, discipline, and self-compassion and how those three energies informed the path that led her to her practice and her devotion to that practice
Her work teaching social justice based meditation and the link between unlearning systemic oppression and the compassionate action teachings in Buddhism
How to choose what to focus on, in the project of making the world a better place
“I’ve taken a keen interest in young people in black and brown communities. And that doesn’t mean I don’t care about the environment. I pay plenty of attention to that. But I know what makes me cry... And that’s good. It’s good to let our vulnerability and intimacy inform what we want to be in the fight for....And we don’t have to do it all.”