Join us for a Peacemakers Circle with Stephen Mugen Snyder Roshi exploring Koan of Cessation.
Cessation, or Nirvana, points to a direct experience of liberation at the center of Theravada practice.
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Courage is not about conquering fear. It is about including it.
Jeff Bridges and Krishna Das join the Peacemakers Podcast for a tender conversation on illness, gratitude, and “scary, but okay.” We invite you to listen and step fully into your own life.
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The Peacemakers Podcast explores how contemplative practice meets real-world action.
Through fresh, original conversations, we highlight creative responses to today’s most urgent needs — refugees, homelessness, climate change, discrimination, and more.
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Everything we offer is sustained by generosity.
This is an economy of generosity — where practice and action are supported by community.
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Part 41 of my series “Zen and the Art of Dissatisfaction” is now on my blog at the @helsinkizen.fi website. Read ”Psychedelics and Healing” at helsinkizen.fi/zen-and-the-...
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Held in the Black Hills, this retreat invites participants into relationship—with the land, with Lakota community members, and with one another. Horses will be a part of the retreat. Learn more and register: hive.zenpeacemakers.org/events/206210
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Join us for a Peacemakers Circle with Stephen Mugen Snyder Roshi exploring Koan of Cessation.
Cessation, or Nirvana, points to a direct experience of liberation at the center of Theravada practice.
Register here: hive.zenpeacemakers.org/eve...
#ZenPeacemakers
March 20th is the anniversary of the passing of Roshi Sandra Jishu Angyo Holmes, the co-founder of the Zen Peacemaker Order and Zen priest of the White Plum Asanga. 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭
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Saturday, March 21st
12:00pm Eastern Time
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We invite you to join us for Jishu Memorial: Ox Class Revisited, honoring Sandra Jishu Angyo Holmes—co-founder of the Zen Peacemaker Order.
Her life continues to shape our values, practice, and community.
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Street Retreats invite us to step into lives often unseen.
Participants spend a week on the streets —
seeking food, shelter, money, and basic needs.
Not as performance.
As practice.
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We invite you to join a Zen Peacemakers Core Training on The Three Tenets, the foundation of our practice and a living guide for meeting life with openness and compassion.
Monday, March 9th
12pm US Eastern Time
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𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭.
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Practice moves into the world.
In this Peacemakers Podcast episode, the Zen Center of Denver shares how contemplative practice becomes real service at Metro Caring. Not charity—belonging.
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Our practice does not stop at borders.
Through our global affiliate network, Zen Peacemakers connects communities across cultures, traditions, and continents.
Interconnectedness is not an idea.
It is lived relationship.
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Join us for a meaningful pause, thoughtful dialogue, and practical insight that supports inner resilience and compassionate engagement with the world.
Wednesday, March 18th
12:00pm Eastern Time
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March 20th is the anniversary of the passing of Roshi Sandra Jishu Angyo Holmes, the co-founder of the Zen Peacemaker Order and Zen priest of the White Plum Asanga. 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭
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This session explores how Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Loving Action can be practiced in everyday life—helping us respond to stress, complexity, and uncertainty with clarity and care.
All are welcome.
Monday, March 9th
12pm US Eastern Time
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Sometimes, peace isn’t in controlling life but in flowing with it. 🌊
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No act is too small. No place is too far.
Together we are shaping a circle of service — connecting, learning, and acting from the heart of the Three Tenets.
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This is not a call to ignore suffering or imperfection.
It is an invitation to meet the world exactly as it is — and to respond with love anyway.Every moment becomes a place to practice.
Every encounter becomes a chance to act.
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ARE WE ONE traces the remarkable spiritual journey of Robert Kennedy, one of the first American Catholic priests to be installed as a Zen teacher in the United States.
Tuesday, Feb. 17th · 12:00pm US Eastern Time
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The future is not something abstract or distant.
It is shaped, breath by breath, by how we show up right now.Presence is not passive.
It is an active commitment to meet this moment with care, attention, and compassion.
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So much of our lives are spent searching — for answers, certainty, arrival.
Huang Po reminds us that the gate does not open through effort alone, but through stillness.
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We invite you to join a live conversation with T. Marie King exploring the relationship between empathy and perspective. Empathy allows us to feel, but perspective helps us understand — and real learning requires both.
Wednesday, March 18th
12:00pm Eastern Time
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April 23–27, 2026
Montgomery & Selma, Alabama
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Not knowing is not a failure. It is a practice.
When we stop assuming we are right, when we pause and truly bear witness, clarity arises naturally and action follows.Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action.
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Not knowing loosens our grip on certainty and invites humility, curiosity, and deeper listening. From that space, new possibilities for compassionate action can arise.
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This teaching invites us to slow down and trust what is already here. When we practice equanimity, we accept the truth of the moment and meet life just as it is—without striving, without judgment.
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What shifts when we stop defending our positions and simply stay present with what is?
This teaching invites us to notice how much of our suffering is created by separation and judgment—and how freedom arises when those habits soften.
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The year closes. The practice continues—because of you.
Your support sustains our work of bearing witness, cultivating stillness, and taking compassionate action together.
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