The California Vision 2020 conference offers bold leadership in designing the future we want, with savvy social change agents, wisdom teachers, and political leaders giving voice to hopeful new ideas and bold new strategies.

Over the past year, I’ve been making the sometimes painful transition from working harder to working smarter, often against the grain of long-established habits instilled by ideas about work ethics […]

Just three days after the New York Post’s brazenly racist cartoon managed to slip past all editorial checkpoints to subtly (or grossly) depict the nation’s first Black president as a rabid chimp gunned down by NY’s finest, the online Opinion section of NYTimes ran an article on race.

Preview of CXC's fearless YOGA Warrior Flow video.

fearlessYOGA™is “Yoga Built for Justice” offers an accessible approach to practicing yoga through a standard series of multi-level postures that, once learned, can be practiced as a “flow.”

Can this narrative become the basis for a movement that reshapes the social and economic field? What is emerging? Our mission is to gather young leaders and wise elders to listen, reflect and explore ways to foster systemic changes that create unity among humanity and a loving, respectful relationship with Earth and all of life.

This video is part of the second annual Awake in the World conference, which features over 40 inspiring thought leaders, wisdom holders, and social visionaries discussing practical teachings for living a more mindful and purposeful life.

Rev. angel Kyodo Williams delivers a stirring case for why westerners being attached to “being  Buddhist” may be the most detrimental stance the hinders the good intention people have for aligning with Buddhist values.

Studying dharma is good Practicing dharma is essential. Embodying the Dharma is profound. Two obstacles hamper most forms of modern practice: they use mental frameworks to address habits, patterns, and behaviors that are deeply held in the body, and the information is accessed in an environment (on the cushion), unlike the situations we encounter. As a result, we often find it difficult to translate our best intentions into our lives.