Literacy and Justice for All

Literature generously provides us with opportunities to make meaningful connections and expand perspectives – creating mirrors, windows, revolving doors, and bridges. Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown will illuminate the transformative power of literature and discuss current social justice issues including rising book bans in public schools and challenges facing public libraries. In addition, highlights on her equity […]

Taking Action with Eon Zen

Serving Dinner at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Serving and engaging in community is fundamental to Zen practice. The Third Tenet of the Zen Peacemakers is taking action. The action that arises from this practice is a caring action that serves everyone and everything, including yourself, in the whole situation. Through the practice of […]

Polish Peacemakers Helping Ukraine

Please join us to hear our Polish Peacemaker friends, Orina Krajewska of Małgosia Braunek “Be” Foundation and the Zwiazek Buddyjski/Kanzeon Sangha in Warsaw, along with Taras Gembik of the BLYZKIST (“closeness”) collective and “Sunflower” Solidarity Community Center as they talk about  the situation in Ukraine and Poland, as well as refugee needs. They will expound on the Common Kitchen project: “Cook, eat, explore! Gotuy, їж, знайо!”, and a free program for kids: “Let’s […]

Leaving Prison Behind: A Council Before I Go

Please join Roshi Eve Marko and Jared Seide, Exec Director of Center for Council, in a dynamic conversation about Leaving Prison Behind: A Council Before I Go. This new illustrated novella chronicles the journey of Ray, a fictionalized participant in a council-based program for incarcerated people.

THE MOTHERS OF GYNECOLOGY MONUMENT

warning: this video discussed racial violence The erection of the “Mothers of Gynecology” monument honors the sacrifice of Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the enslaved experimental subjects of the so-called “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims. Michelle L. Browder (with Deborah Shedrick), Mothers of Gynecology, 2021, found metal objects and other media, roughly 15 feet high […]

Turning Words

Hozan has a new book coming soon from Shambhala: Turning Words—Transformative Encounters. The path of engaged Buddhist practice flows like water, adapting to so many cultures, shaped by the richness and the sufferings encountered along the way. Hozan’s wish is to share even a little of this with the ZP community, that we may find ways […]

Małgosia Braunek’s “Be” Foundation – Ukraine Update

Dear ZPI Friends Today 1 year passes since the Russian full-scale invasion on Ukraine. As many of you know already on February 27, the first transport of medical supplies collected by our Foundation, Sangha Kanzeon, Blyzkist collective and many friends set off from Warsaw, Poland. Thanks to Your amazing help, hearts, and support from the […]

Shuttlesworth

Screening and Discussion with T.Marie King, Willie Mukei Smith and Geoff Shoun O’Keeffe. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was raised in the crucible of segregated Birmingham but he was forged by its attempt to kill him. When the KKK planted a bomb underneath his bed and he emerged unharmed, he was sure he was saved by God […]

Community-Engaged Practice

We use the term Community Engaged Buddhism to describe a way of practicing on the path of service and social action close to home, in the intimacy of a neighborhood and local community. It is about opening the doors for relationship with those who live nearby but have previously been “othered” and marginalized.  Bread Loaf Mountain Zen has experimented with this […]

Polish Peacemakers: Helping Ukraine This Winter

Our Polish Peacemaker friend, Orina Krajewska of Małgosia Braunek “Be” Foundation and the Zwiazek Buddyjski/Kanzeon Sangha in Warsaw has been bringing medical supplies into Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw. Orina will be talking about what she and her organization are doing to get Ukrainians through the many challenges they will face this winter.