From Dharma Relief — the online response to the coronavirus crisis created by Guo Gu of the Tallahassee Chan Center — comes a new video featuring multiple Buddhist teachers offering advice and leading us in practices to help us in the face of Covid-19.
Included in the video are Guo Gu, Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Dharma Drum abbot Guo Yuan, Rinzai Zen teacher Meido Moore, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Thubten Chodron, Zen teacher John Tarrant, Narayan Helen Liebenson of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Dharma Drum abbess and teacher Chang Wu, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies executive director Richard Henning, and Rinzai Zen teacher Jeff Shore.
A Dharma Relief photo showing one of its first shipments of masks. The organization reports 300,000 masks shipped already. Pictured are Ken Shoriak (System Director of Operations; left), and Paul Martin (Development Rep; right), at the Lee Health Foundation hospital in Fort Myers, Florida. Photo by Paul Martin.
The Dharma Relief effort, which began with trying to secure medical masks for health workers, is working. Reports Guo Gu:
“Since we started this on 03/30, with your help, we have reached $485,000—only $15,000 short of our goal. Your continued support and spreading the message is so vital. Since then we’ve funneled that money to create masks, and have shipped out 300,000 masks already! We have updated our website with infographs to reflect this transparency: https://
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