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...
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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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REPORT ON THE AUSCHWITZ-BEARING-WITNESS-RETREATS 2010-2014 and 2019
Monika Winkelmann, writer and poet, shares her Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat Report and how she experienced grief.
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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.Â
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Three bows to John Lewis
John Lewis may not have embraced "Not Knowing" per se, but his steady, calm and loving demeanor gave him away. John was a man of deep introspection, prayer and contemplation.
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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.
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A Reflection from the 2020 Native American Virtual Retreat
ZPI encourages reflections from retreat participants, staff, members & others touched by our work and doing similar work from around the world, as part of the practice of bearing witness. Angell Deer, a participant...
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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.
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My own experiences with racism, my mea culpa and what I am going to do about it…
Greg Seizan Clark, a member of the Denver Zen Center sangha, discusses his reflections on a racism.
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Help for the Hospital in Radom
In this article, Polish peacemaker Krzysztof Nowiński shares how he as used the pandemic to both deepen his practice and use his practice for the benefit of his community.
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