Healing the World: The First Problem
José M. Tirado ‘ö-Zér Jamgön Dorje
29 March 2022
A meditation on the dilemma of engaged Buddhism
José M. Tirado ‘ö-Zér Jamgön Dorje
José M. Tirado is a poet, psychologist, Buddhist priest, and political writer. He was a union president at Warner Bros. Pictures, co-founder of the Latino Writers Group for screenwriters, hospital chaplain, and is now an Ed. D. candidate at the University of Iceland, where he teaches meditation to anyone interested. He contributed a chapter to Praeger’s “Peace Movements Worldwide,” an article on Emptiness and psychology in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and has written for CounterPunch, Sacred Hoop, Dissident Voice, Levekunst: Art of Life, and others. He has practiced Buddhism for more than 40 years: in Zen, Pure Land, and Vajrayana. Currently, he is a gétrug, or apprentice, in the Nyingma Aro gTér tradition of Himalayan (or Tibetan) Buddhism.