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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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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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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Not Knowing—and Following Those Who Just Might Have an Idea
Peter Pierson, a writer and a participant in the Native American Bearing Witness Plunge in 2019, offers us another reflective writing piece, applying the three tenets to his intimate experience and reflections of our modern times....
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 Some Kind of Artist
Lisa Gakyo Schaewe artist, counselor and practitioner at Eon Zen Center in Boulder, Colorado USA, shares a story about the role creation and art plays in connecting one’s self back to a soul’s purpose....
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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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A Gift of Not Knowing
Peter Pierson, a writer and a participant in the Native American Bearing Witness Plunge in 2019, offers us a reflective writing piece that shares a bit about how the practice of "Not Know" remained with him...
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A Worldwide Plunge into Not Knowing! A statement by Barbara Salaam WegmĂĽller, RoshiÂ
ZPI Board Member, Barbara Salaam Angyo Wegmüller, Roshi shares a statement she made to the Zen Peacemakers special meeting with the ZPI Board of Directors and staff, March 26, 2020.
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