Zen Peacemakers

𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭.
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“Let it be” isn’t surrender to passivity. It’s honesty. We never controlled outcomes to begin with. Not-Knowing frees us from managing illusions and returns us to presence. From there, compassion and wise action arise naturally. #NotKnowing

Perspective + Empathy — Learning Beyond Your Own Lens
Wednesday, March 18th
12:00pm Eastern Time
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#RacialEquity

Informational Session – Racism in America Bearing Witness Retreat 2026
March 9, 2026
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM US Eastern

This retreat brings participants to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama — places that continue to shape the American story. Find out more at this informational session.

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Compassion isn’t soft — it’s transformative. In gender equality work, it means listening to lived experience, standing with marginalized voices, and remembering shared humanity. Compassion fuels courage, sustains change, and builds movements rooted in dignity, not resentment. #GenderEquality

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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Violence isn’t only physical. It’s embedded in systems that deny food, shelter, healthcare, and dignity. Poverty isn’t misfortune — it’s injustice. Peacemaking means addressing root causes, not just symptoms. Ending poverty isn’t charity. It’s peace work. #Peacemaking

New episode: The Intimacy of Taking Action.
Taking Action isn’t strategy or performance. It’s relationship. It’s staying when things get uncomfortable.
A grounded conversation on the third of the Three Tenets.

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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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In deep letting go — of loss, beliefs, or expectations — we often discover not emptiness, but presence. When we meet endings without avoidance, life reveals a quiet fullness beyond circumstance. Letting go shows us that even now, nothing is missing. #RadicalAcceptance

We invite you to join a live, interactive presentation with Krishna Das, one of the most influential voices in modern devotional practice.

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 pm Eastern Time

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We often imagine enlightenment as escape from grief or illness. But this teaching points closer: nothing is elsewhere. Even at life’s end, what remains is presence. To accept this fragile, imperfect moment is to see that nothing is missing. There is only this. #Presence

Curious about the Racism in America Bearing Witness Retreat 2026?
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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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Council is not a discussion, a debate, or a space for problem-solving. It is a shared, intentional container where we listen deeply, speak from the heart, and encounter one another with presence and care.

Monday, February 9
12:00pm 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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A powerful invitation to be like water: responsive, inclusive, and awake.

Listen now on the Peacemakers Podcast.
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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 Buddhist Precepts are living teachings—offering guidance, reflection, and support in the midst of daily stress and complexity. Each session explores one of the Ten Grave Precepts as a tool for self-study and transformation, rooted in compassion and clarity.

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We invite you to join a live, interactive presentation with Krishna Das, one of the most influential voices in modern devotional practice.

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 pm Eastern Time

Register for Free: buff.ly/HDvOYOy

This retreat is not about standing at the edge of history to change the world. It is about allowing the experience to change us — to see ourselves as the other, and the other as ourselves.

Retreat details:
April 23–28, 2026
Montgomery & Selma, Alabama

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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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In this testimony, a past participant reflects on how the Racism in America Bearing Witness Retreat opened space for listening, discomfort, and transformation — without agenda, without answers, without trying to fix.

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What stands out is not a life story, but a way of living. Bernie speaks to how the Three Tenets — Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action — are not teachings to adopt, but realities already unfolding in our own lives.

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✨ Just a Few of This Month’s Free Events

These offerings are just a small sampling of the many free events Zen Peacemakers is sharing this month. Join us for practice, conversation, and community rooted in the Three Tenets.
Come check out these events plus many more at
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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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