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. #ZenPeacemakers #SorenKierkegaard #BearingWitness #TakingAction

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 Register for free: buff.ly/h9OmF9p #zenpeacemakers #interfaith #Robert Kennedy

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. Register Here: buff.ly/DKlGygg

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 Learn more: buff.ly/vpJEF8T

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. #ZenPeacemakers #ThichNhatHanh #Mindfulness #ContemplativeAction #TakingAction

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. buff.ly/LkvU8O5

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. LISTEN HERE: buff.ly/hPBI5FO

✨ 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 buff.ly/TVJyFga

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. #ZenPeacemakers #HuangPo #ZenWisdom #Stillness #BearingWitness #TakingAction #NotKnowing

Breaking the Ice: Making Space for Stillness in an ICE Detention Center shares the lived experience of establishing weekly meditation sittings inside the GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado. Tuesday, January 20 6pm Eastern Time Register: buff.ly/HRG4E22

✨ 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 buff.ly/TVJyFga

David Chadwick will share stories from his life in Zen practice and his work preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and a pivotal figure in American Zen. Register here: buff.ly/VWNT4Dh

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 buff.ly/rzzO3tC #ZenPeacemakers

Discomfort is not something to overcome here. It is welcomed as a doorway into deeper understanding, connection, and transformation. This retreat is not an activist training or educational seminar. It is an opportunity to allow the experience itself to change us. Register: buff.ly/ftPZMpQ

Zen Peacemakers invites you into a grounding and accessible introduction to meditation — a practice human beings have returned to for thousands of years in moments of uncertainty, stress, and change. Register Here: buff.ly/U6lbJwp

In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, we sit with T. Marie King in a conversation that invites honest reflection on identity, power, and how we show up in community. buff.ly/HbiSwyV

✨ 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 buff.ly/TVJyFga

Eve Marko will introduce the history of Council, share the guidelines that support this practice, and lead participants in a short Council experience. Monday, February 9 12:00pm Eastern Time buff.ly/XyuHgRm

April 23–27, 2026 Montgomery & Selma, Alabama Register: buff.ly/ftPZMpQ Learn more: buff.ly/uDOtOZW #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #RacismInAmerica #ContemplativePractice #CouncilPractice #Presence

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. Register Here: buff.ly/DKlGygg

Rather than approaching racism as a problem to solve or an idea to analyze, this retreat invites participants to bear witness through presence, silence, and shared experience. The practice asks us to suspend assumptions, release fixed views, and listen. Register Here buff.ly/ftPZMpQ

Zen Peacemakers invites you into a grounding and accessible introduction to meditation — a practice human beings have returned to for thousands of years in moments of uncertainty, stress, and change. Register Here: buff.ly/U6lbJwp

IS THIS PRACTICE ENOUGH? December 29, 2025 ~ Eve Marko buff.ly/n5ayvPT

Rather than approaching racism as a problem to solve or an idea to analyze, this retreat invites participants to suspend assumptions, release fixed views, and listen — to the places we visit, to one another, and to ourselves. buff.ly/ftPZMpQ

This s is not a training, protest, or strategy session. Registration: buff.ly/ftPZMpQ Program details: buff.ly/uDOtOZW #nonviolence #education #globalmovement #war #conflictresolution

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. www.zenpeacemakers.org #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #NotKnowing

Not knowing loosens our grip on certainty and invites humility, curiosity, and deeper listening. From that space, new possibilities for compassionate action can arise. Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action. buff.ly/CqDZA4F #ZenPeacemakers #NotKnowing #BearingWitness

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. Join the Zen Peacemakers buff.ly/CqDZA4F #ZenPeacemakers #InnateGoodness

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. Join the Zen Peacemakers buff.ly/CqDZA4F #ZenPeacemakers

The year closes. The practice continues—because of you. Your support sustains our work of bearing witness, cultivating stillness, and taking compassionate action together. Read the reflection: buff.ly/RuKpQws #ZenPeacemakers #Gratitude #ThePracticeContinues

Breaking the Ice: Making Space for Stillness in an ICE Detention Center shares the lived experience of establishing weekly meditation sittings inside the GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado. Tuesday, January 20 6pm Eastern Time Register: buff.ly/HRG4E22

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. Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action through contemplative practice and engaged social action. buff.ly/CqDZA4F

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. Join us: buff.ly/FZL1nng #ZenPeacemakers #TakingAction #CollectiveAction #Engaged #Peace

Bearing Witness to Racism in America April 23–28, 2026 | Montgomery & Selma This retreat is not about changing the world. It is about allowing the experience to change us. Meditation, council, and silent presence in places that still speak. buff.ly/3fOqGdm Registration: buff.ly/5B1cfA1

Dogma can offer structure, but faith requires lived experience. It asks us to step beyond inherited forms and into direct relationship—with ourselves, with one another, and with the world as it is. Join Us: buff.ly/Z00i0f4 #ZenPeacemakers #FaithInAction #SpiritualPractice #BearingWitness

All of our offerings are made possible by the generosity of supporters like you. From our Bearing Witness programs and weekly online events, to daily Zazen and the Three Tenets teachings—none of it could happen without you. To learn how you can support, visit our website.

Join Us for a special Zen Peacemakers Circle. David Chadwick will share stories from his life in Zen practice and his work preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and a pivotal figure in American Zen. Register here: buff.ly/VWNT4Dh

Join Moshe Yoohoo Cohen for an interactive session on levity, presence, and the joyful art of non verbal expression. Register here: buff.ly/jR8BN6e #ZenPeacemakers #PeacemakersCircle #SacredMischief #LevityPractice #ThreeTenets

Join us for Just Sitting and Noticing with Jacqueline Kramer — a gentle workshop on seeing deeply and bearing witness to the beauty right in front of us. Bring a leaf, pencil, and paper. 🕛 Tuesday, December 9th at 12pm ET ➡️ Register: buff.ly/1dZNNvw #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #Mindfulness

Each moment invites us to take part in the universe’s ongoing act of creation. Awareness becomes participation — every breath, every act of compassion, every step forward a brushstroke in the unfolding masterpiece. Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action: buff.ly/AbXhLCj #TakingAction

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We invite you to join Oshō Mike Travisano for an interactive presentation: Creating Our Own Experience in the World Thursday, December 4th — 12 pm Eastern Time 🔗 Register Here: buff.ly/QI3yAZZ #ZenPeacemakers #RightEffort #MindfulLiving #PeacefulHeart #BearingWitness #EngagedBuddhism

Sacred Mischief is coming to the Peacemakers Circle. Join Moshe Yoohoo Cohen for an interactive session on levity, presence, and the joyful art of non verbal expression. Register here: buff.ly/jR8BN6e #ZenPeacemakers #PeacemakersCircle #SacredMischief #LevityPractice #ThreeTenets

Desire can be its own illusion — we cling to longing because fulfillment feels fleeting. Yet the heart of Zen practice invites us to simply be with what is, without needing it to stay or change. Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action: 👉 buff.ly/AbXhLCj #ZenPeacemakers #Mindfulness

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Each breath, each blink, each heartbeat — this moment is the only one we ever truly live in.Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action: buff.ly/AbXhLCj #ZenPeacemakers #AlanWatts #Mindfulness #Zen #Presence #ThreeTenets #NotKnowing #BearingWitness #TakingAction

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Join us for a special Peacemakers Circle with Shodo Spring as she explores her new book, Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings. 🕛 Thursday, November 20th, 12pm Eastern Time 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/gWrPeKX #ZenPeacemakers #PeacemakersCircle #ShodoSpring #OpenReality

Even in our solitude, we are not apart from the vast web of life. Join the Zen Peacemakers and put words into action: buff.ly/AbXhLCj #ZenPeacemakers #ThreeTenets #BearingWitness #Interbeing #TuFu #ZenPoetry #MindfulAction