Together Apart – Building Beloved Community Behind and Beyond Bars
With Erin Parish & Sita Lozoff What if our criminal legal system was made of communities of curious and creative people working together to get well? Our current system works to disconnect communities and makes it hard for people to build healthy, helpful, and nurturing communities within this structure. The desire to connect and create, however, […]
Holy Land Trust: Fostering Peace, Justice, Healing and Transformation
Meet Zen Peacemakers’ Affiliate, Holy Land Trust’s Executive Director, Elias Deis to learn more about his organization and current projects. Holy Land Trust is a non-profit Palestinian organization committed to fostering peace, justice and understanding in the Holy Land. They are deeply committed to exploring the root causes of violence and seek to develop solutions to address them. They believe […]
Everything Changes; Everything is Connected; Pay Attention
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield and Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe will be talking about the Three Tenets, the way poems carry the values of right speech in their marrow, right action in the realms of both biosphere and social compact, and compassionate attention as the ground of change.
The Receptivity of Bearing Witness & How we Rekindle it after Shutting Down
As Peacemakers or Buddhists, we face the challenge of dropping our fixed ideas and opinions in order to meet difficult situations freshly, with open hearts. Meanwhile, the world keeps hitting us with louder displays of brutality, dehumanization, and disregard for life, including the systems that protect it. How can we alleviate our desperation and connect […]
Appamāda – Roshi Joan Halifax
A Zen Peacemaker Circle with Roshi Joan Halifax (December 12, 2023)
Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love
We are fortunate to host Paula Arai who will offer readings from her new book published by Shambhala Publications: The Little Book of Zen Healing. She will also share about the background of the book and there will be time for Q&A.
Bearing Witness to the Unfolding Environmental Disaster of the 21st Century
It is evident that humanity is facing an existential threat with global warming and climate change. It is also evident that we are facing a serious biodiversity crisis – ecosystems undergoing major alterations and species threatened with extinction. Mr. Harrison will lead a discussion on these juxtaposed environmental threats, particularly from the perspective of freshwater […]
Pearls of Ash & Awe – Readings from AschePerlen
Pearls of Ash & Awe—AschePerlen is a book that documents 20 Years of Bearing Witness in Auschwitz with Bernie Glassman & Zen Peacemakers. During this event, several of the authors will read their – or other – testimonies from the book. After reading, we will take time to share in a mindful way. You will […]
A Multi-Faith Response to the Climate Crisis
Around the globe, the impacts of climate change are hitting harder. Fires, severe storms, droughts, and floods are displacing millions of people. These impacts break our hearts. They do grave harm to the planet and the human family. They call us to bear witness from a place of stillness and determination, compassion and justice. Since […]
All Twisted Karma (Post Election Day Reflections: 2020)
All my ancient twisted karma, from beginningless greed, hate, and delusion, born of body, speech, and mind, I now fully atone. – Verse of Atonement As I got older, I started to wonder…evil karma/good karma, problem/not a problem, is that intrinsic in what’s going on, or is that me subjectively saying, «That’s a problem. […]
