Another World is Possible

Another World is Possible Transformation through Hospitality and Dialogue in the Syrian Desert Rev. Amy Newell-Large Apr 13, 2025 About an hour north of Damascus, carved into a rocky ridge in the Syrian desert, sits a monastery called Deir Mar Musa. Originally built in the 11th century, it’s the kind of place that breathes with […]

The Seven Factors of Awakening

From mindfulness to joy to equanimity — when you cultivate beautiful qualities, they nourish your life and spiritual practice and enable you to be an agent of change in the world. Seven Buddhist teachers explain how.
The post The Seven Factors of Awakening appeared first on Lion’s Roar.

Introducing New Affiliated Group: Sangha for Ukraine

To strengthen our planetary network, ZPI will feature newly affiliated groups.  Join HERE to explore some of the offerings of the organizations affiliated with ZP, and visit here for a full list of these groups. Following is an introduction to the Sangha for Ukraine   Sangha for Ukraine Compassion for Ukraine Mission: The Compassion for Ukraine community maintains […]

HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITIES

January 23, 2025 ~ Eve Marko “In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party—and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.” That was part of Abraham Lincoln’s reflections in 1862. The Civil War […]

Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz 2024

by Barbara Wegmüller   The security checks have intensified over the last few years. The numbers and names of all the international passports were given weeks ago to register the group of retreat participants. The entire entrance area was recently rebuilt. In the first year, the museum recorded 170,000 visitors. Currently, there are more than […]

OLD EGYPT ROAD

December 4, 2024 ~ Eve Marko   I was in Takoma Park, Maryland, for the Thanksgiving holiday and returned home on Saturday. The following morning, I took out the dogs in freezing temperatures on one of our favorite walks, Fiske Pond in the Town of Wendell, some 10 minutes from the house. The place had changed dramatically […]

“Never again – for everyone!”

An interview with Zen Peacemaker Roshi, Barbara Salaam Wegmüller Roshi (Bern) and Cornelius von Collande Roshi (Würzburg), about the upcoming Auschwitz Retreat in November 2024 against the backdrop of the current war in the Middle East. The interview was held in May 2024, therefore only the war in Gaza and not in Lebanon is addressed […]

Using the Empty Chair to Move Beyond Us-and-Them Thinking

In a season of vitriol, council with an empty chair may help us all win. Updated April 23, 2024 |  Reviewed by Gary Drevitch At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood did something unusual: he spent over 12 minutes speaking to an empty chair as if it were then-President Obama. Commentary flooded social media and dominated news […]

Bearing Witness to the Night

March 2024 Many mornings, as something of a ritual affirming my connection to a Home Place, I log on and connect to a webcam feed from Big Sand Lake in northern Minnesota. Over a cup of coffee 600 miles away, I can look east from a webcam mounted on a pole at a resort—the same […]