Our guest today is Chris Rose. Chris is the Director of Amos Trust, a small creative human rights organisation which has three main areas of work: promoting Palestinian rights, creating opportunities for girls and young women on the streets and calling for climate justice. Chris has travelled extensively to Amos partner projects and led many trips and activities with them, such as home rebuilding, cycling and marathons trips in Palestine. He cofounded the Street Child World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and led Amos’ Just Walk from London to Jerusalem in 2017. Prior to this he was CEO of Romsey Mill a highly innovative youth project in Cambridge. He is an ordained Anglican Minister and he’s here to talk to us today about the Amos project.
I am not too keen on the idea that the “middle way” can become some sort of institution.
The Buddha did not intend to change our world but to wake us up to its innate nature…
Awakening is the result of seeing through our wish for our experiences to be different than they are. This is accomplished by paying close attention to our suffering and its basis. Although meditation may get you started, it can also become the root of extreme views…
William