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By Bhikkhu Bodhi
Walking can be viewed in bare physical terms as an intricate interplay of nerve impulses, muscles, and bones resulting in a change of location. Viewed pragmatically, walking is a means for getting us from one place to another, from our starting point to our goal. READ MORE |
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By Tom Green
Buddhist Global Relief awarded a grant enabling the What If? Foundation to provide food relief to hungry children in the Tiplas Kazo neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Using the community-based food program, Lamanjay, the BGR grant provided over 3,000 hot, nutritious meals of rice, vegetables and protein each month during the first half of 2011.
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By Carla Prater
BGR has begun new projects in Cambodia, Haiti, India, Malawi, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United States READ MORE |
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By Deena Scherer
 On September 10, Buddhist Global Relief held its second annual Walk to Feed the Hungry at Riverside Park in New York City. Over eighty people, and their children and pets, came out to walk the 3.5 miles under sunny skies to support BGR's mission of feeding the hungry, promoting sustainable food production, and educating poor girls in the developing world. READ MORE |
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By Bhikkhu Bodhi
 "We should have come by boat! We need oars and a rudder, not wheels!" Such were the thoughts that ran through my mind as we drove from Troy, a suburb of Detroit, to Kensington Park, in Milford, Michigan, north of Ann Arbor. READ MORE |
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By Ajahn Gunavuddho
 Taking Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi's request to heart and seeing that there was no walk scheduled for the Bay Area, we made a clear and quick decision to create an event. Though the preparation time was short, we never imagined the results that were to come about.
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 In addition to the "Walk to Feed the Hungry" events in New York City, the California Bay Area, and Michigan, a concert was held on September 1st at the Douglass Street Music Collective in Brooklyn, NY. This event, sponsored by the Ven. Sak Dhammadipa, the abbot of Chuang Yen Monastery, featured jazz artists Daniel Blake and the Julian Lage Group. READ MORE |
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 Volunteers joined BGR Board members and founder Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi at Chuang Yen Monastery in beautiful Carmel, New York, for a day of celebration and learning. Attendees enjoyed presentations on the many successful fundraisers held around the country for BGR's recent Walk to Feed the Hungry. READ MORE |
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We have had such an inspiring series of fundraising events recently! This experience has showed us once again that generosity is a practice that can fill the heart with joy. The Buddha said that generosity is the basis of the spiritual life, as it helps us learn to let go of our attachments to things that are of no ultimate value to us. READ MORE |
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