Open Question

OQ 110 - Dharma in Hell


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In this final episode of Open Question season one, Elizabeth speaks with Fleet Maull, prison activist, Buddhist practitioner, and author of "Dharma in Hell" and "Radical Responsibility." He has a fascinating story to tell us about his 14 years of Buddhist practice in prison, starting the first prison hospice program, and the practice of bearing witness. One of the messages Elizabeth took away from this conversation with Fleet, was the need to take ownership of one's life circumstances. Fleet uses the term "radical responsibility" to describe how agency comes from accepting our own karma. Fleet's example shows us that it is possible to find agency even in an environment like prison, which, by all conventional definitions, is the antithesis of freedom.

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