The highest-attended Dialogue Nights since the easing of pandemic restrictions tackled the perennial question of how best to recognize one’s most authentic self and bring it to all one’s interactions.
The first Dialogue Nights of 2024 operated under the assumption that stress is, in the words of event moderator Preandra Noel, a “shared reality” for all of us these days, whether it’s “with work, with relationships,” or just with “the state of the world.”
The Ikeda Center's 30th anniversary slate of events concluded with a Dialogue Nights devoted to the topic: “The Courage to Dialogue: The Surest Path to Peace.”
What does it take to restore our humanity? This simple but ambitious question served as the focus for the fourth Dialogue Nights of 2023, held on August 4th.
Meeting a core challenge put forth in Daisaku Ikeda’s 1993 Harvard lecture, "Mahayana Buddhism and 21st Century Civilization," the third Dialogue Nights explored the topic “What Can Death Teach Us About Life? A Conversation.”
Continuing the theme of exploring concepts from our founding lecture, the second Dialogue Nights of 2023 took up the essential Buddhist theme of interdependence.
The concept of the greater self, which is central to the philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda and his 1993 lecture at Harvard University, provided the focus for the first Dialogue Nights of our 30th anniversary year.
Participants discussed why listening is so hard and what they do to overcome the many obstacles to the kind of deep and compassionate listening that dialogue requires
On July 29, and after two years and six virtual events, nearly 30 Boston-area university students and young professionals returned to the Ikeda Center for an evening of joyful, rejuvenating dialogue.
On May 27, the Ikeda Center hosted its sixth and final “virtual” Dialogue Nights, with the plan being to return to in-person events this summer, more than two years after they were suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic.