Instructions to the Cook
“Day and night, the work for preparing the meals must be done without wasting a moment. If you do this and everything that you do whole-heartedly, this nourishes the seeds of Awakening and brings...
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35 Backpacks
Sensei Edward Sangetsu Sullivan,a teacher in the White Plum Lineage, discusses how even in a time of pandemic a small group of highly motivated people can still accomplish something.
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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...
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Hard Bed by the White House: reflection on a street retreat in Washington DC
WASHINGTON DC, USA. "On the street retreat, spending four days and three nights on the streets of Washington DC, USA, mere blocks from the White House, my mind often muses about giving..."
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Haitian Heat Unrelenting as the Stream of Patients: A Nurse’s Plunge in Port-Au-Prince
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI. Diane Berg shares her experience of facilitating a free medical clinic in Haiti. "I am starting to understand that what is most precious to the Haitian people we meet is...
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Bearing Witness to Land, Food and Race: Organizers review the 2017 retreat at Soul Fire Farm
PETERSBURG, NEW YORK, USA. In September 2017, Zen Peacemakers Roshi Paco Genkoji Lugoviña and Zen Peacemakers Minister Ariel Pliskin organized the retreat "Bearing Witness to Land, Food, and Race" with Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg,...
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100,000 Fires to Feed: Roshi Michel Dubois’ Twenty years of Homelessness Ministry in Paris
PARIS, FRANCE. Roshi Michel Dubois, founder and teacher at Zen - A Way of the Heart center in Paris,  describes how spending a night among the homeless of Dusseldorf gave rise to a social enterprise serving...
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In Search of Dignity And Care: A ZPO Member’s Reflection On A Year of Street Retreats
"...The tech firms have headquarters literally right across the streetcar tracks from the Tenderloin, the city’s most impoverished neighborhood...my mind and my body can be and has been complicit in setting up boundaries and...
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Large Sprite, Large Heart- In the Aftermath of a Street Retreat
During September 22-25 2016, six individuals participated in a Street Retreat in New York City, a homelessness plunge based on Not-Knowing, Bearing Witness and Taking Action. Below is an email exchange that followed the retreat, concerning...
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Exploring the Bodhisattva Way, Free Adventures Every Day, Part 2
EXPLORING THE BODHISATTVA WAY, FREE ADVENTURES EVERY DAY, Part 2 By Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt A talk given at Upaya Zen Center on September 28, 2015 Download audio recording, Continued from Part 1 Transcribed by...
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