In this last video of our Search for a Nonviolent Future series, Michael wraps up the book with an emphasis on the necessity restoring our relationship to life around us as we restore the image of ourselves as something with dignity. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta… read more
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Unarmed peacekeepers: Daily Metta video
Michael talks about one of the most important institutions around for replacing the war system: unarmed protection work, or “Shanti Sena.” How does using nonviolent energy for conflict help us to end cycles of domination? Find out more. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as… read more
Framing our values: Daily Metta video
Michael Nagler explores some more of the cultural elements of the war system that can be easily challenged through a shift in framing the story of what we do and who we are. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s… read more
Core of Ahimsa: Daily Metta
“God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on His earth.” ~ Gandhi, Mahtama 4. 124 In our Western worldview, to the extent that it recognizes the existence of a being we can call God, that being is said to have created the world, more or… read more
Cultural Narrative: Daily Metta
“I address this appeal to you in the hope that our movement may even lead you. . . in the right direction, and deflect you from the course which is bound to end in your moral ruin in the reduction of human beings to robots.” ~ Gandhi, London Tribune, October 23, 1942 In our age,… read more
Lasting Victory: Daily Metta
“The German Jews will score a lasting victory over the German Gentiles in the sense that they will have converted the latter to an appreciation of human dignity.” Harijan, November 26, 1938 Here we enter on one of Gandhi’s most controversial claims, that even in the crucible of the holocaust it would be theoretically… read more
Nonviolence of the Strong: Daily Metta
“. . . but as our nonviolence was the nonviolence of the weak, the leaven did not spread. Had we adopted nonviolence as the weapon of the strong, because we realize that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact, the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its… read more
All We Can Be: Daily Metta
“I may deliver up my soul with the remembrance of God on my lips.” ~ Gandhi, Pyarelal, Last Phase, II, p. 101 It seems fitting to end our second year with Gandhiji with this magnificent testimony. For this, of course, was exactly what he did, deliver up his soul with the words “Rama Rama Rama”—the… read more
Transforming War culture: Daily Metta Video
War, Nagler offers, is not just an institution; it represents a culture. What happens when we insert nonviolence into our culture? Can it help to end war? About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and experiments with nonviolence.… read more
Tipping Point: Daily Metta
“For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide. With the loss of India to nonviolence the last hope of the world will be gone.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, October 14, 1939 We would have to say that India is not altogether lost to nonviolence; that flame can be seen if not… read more
