Reflections in a Viral Age2—Hopelessness

Published 4.26.2020 Plagues and natural disasters appear regularly throughout human history. No times, places, or people have been immune to these occurrences. During Japan’s Kamakura period a series of plagues and famines burned across the country. During the Kanki Famine in 1230-31 roughly a third of Japan’s population died—from 1.5 to 2 million people. […]
Following Attention through the Days of Staying-at-Home

by Peter Pierson 2020 Being very much at home through these months of staying-at-home, I did notice when we went from cicada-buzzing, smoke from western wildfire-filled skies, 90-degree afternoons to a bona fide autumnal cold, wet morning in a matter of hours. It did not escape my attention that my neighbor has been pressure-washing his […]
This Is The Stone
One thing I know more clearly now is that feeling death is feeling life. Yet, despite this urgency, hidden emotions rear up and dismay me.
Happiness in the time of Corona
Jacqueline Kramer at the Hearth Foundation shares with us her insight on how we can continue to thrive even in times of a pandemic.
The Village Zendo People of Color Group

Willie J. Smith from from ZPI Affiliate Village Zendo in New York shares about the People of Color Group at their center.
BEARING WITNESS TO EARTH: The Power of the «Glocal»
Elizabeth Debold, organizer of the One World Bearing Witness Online vigil, illuminates readers the world of interconnectivity that COVID-19 is shinning a light on, opening the world to a great sense of wholeness.
Sangha in the Time of Covid-19

Our friend, Sandy Seiju Hockenbury from Eon Zen Center in Boulder, Colorado USA, kindly shared a short piece on the sangha support efforts that the Eon Zen Center has been engaged in as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.