Lisa Hill (with partner Julian Gonzales) coordinates Awake in Action, the Vancouver Shambhala Centre’s social action arm. She gave an hour-long talk on the group’s history, organization and activity to some thirty people at the Kootenay Shambhala Centre’s Open House on May 18th. Click on the icon below to listen to her talk.

Download “Awake in Action,” with Lisa Hill (MP3: 54 MB; 59 min)

Lisa has volunteered for WISH, a drop-in centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which serves women and transgendered people working in the sex trade, and for Vancouver’s Citywide Housing Coalition on the issues of inadequate housing and homelessness. She aspires to raise awareness of the personal and societal benefits of mindfulness-awareness meditation. She gratefully acknowledges Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and His Holiness the 17th Karmapa for their compassionate encouragement to all of us to take an active roll in caring for the world.

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