Exploring the Bodhisattva Way, Free Adventures Every Day, Part 2
[box] EXPLORING THE BODHISATTVA WAY, FREE ADVENTURES EVERY DAY, Part 2 By Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt A talk given at Upaya Zen Center on September 28, 2015 Download audio recording, Continued from Part...
View ArticleBelonging to the Forest, Belonging to the Slum – A Zen Peacemaker's visit to...
Belonging to the Forest, Belonging to the Slum – A Zen Peacemaker’s visit to Brazil By Roshi Barbara Salaam Wegmüller, Peacemakergemeinschaft Schweiz (Switzerland), Brazil February 2016 Our connections...
View ArticleLarge Sprite, Large Heart- In the Aftermath of a Street Retreat
During September 22-25 2016, six individuals have partaken in a Street Retreat in New York City, a homelessness plunge based on Not-Knowing, Bearing Witness and Taking Action. Below is their email...
View ArticleZPO Members Complete NYC Street Retreat, Sep 15-18
In photo: Jiryu, Mukei, Kim, Rudie, and Bogai By A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, ZPO NEW YORK CITY, NY USA. For four days and three nights, I led a small group who chose to be homeless. In preparation, we...
View ArticleSharing a Meal with Hungry Hearts
by Cassie Moore, Upaya Resident “Calling all you hungry hearts All the lost and left behind Gather ’round and share this meal Your joy and sorrow I make it mine.” —from The Gate of Sweet Nectar...
View ArticleIn Search of Dignity And Care: A ZPO Member’s Reflection On A Year of Street...
"...The tech firms have headquarters literally right across the streetcar tracks from the Tenderloin, the city’s most impoverished neighborhood...my mind and my body can be and has been complicit in...
View ArticleCardboard Boxes, Begging and Birdsong – Reflection from Street Retreat in...
"We ended up sleeping in cardboard boxes on the banks of the Chicago River...I didn't sleep much, but I felt the cold to be a deep cleansing, the rocks breaking through my cardboard box to be...
View ArticleKnowing When to Quit: Roshi Genro Reflects on a Photo from a 1999 New York...
"...Once you’ve experienced a certain amount of difficulty as a group, and the group’s gone through a lot, sometimes you don't need four days on the street to get it." Roshi Grover Genro Gaunt reflects...
View ArticlePlunging on the Streets of Helsinki: Civil War, Child Slavery and The Ease of...
HELSINKI, FINLAND. This September, Zen Peacemakers will be holding a street retreat in Helsinki, Finland. In this article, Mikko Ijäs describes the historical context of what these streets have born...
View ArticleFull Moon Campers Society: Play and Burdens on the Streets of Helsinki
Mikko Rakushin Ijäs In 2017 Zen Peacemaker Mikko Ijäs contacted Roshi Frank DeWaele, asking him to lead the first Street Retreat in Helsinki, Finland. For four days they were immersed in the Zen...
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View ArticleExploring the Bodhisattva Way, Free Adventures Every Day, Part 2
[box] EXPLORING THE BODHISATTVA WAY, FREE ADVENTURES EVERY DAY, Part 2 By Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt A talk given at Upaya Zen Center on September 28, 2015 Download audio recording, Continued from Part...
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Hard Bed by the White House: reflection on a street retreat in Washington DC
WASHINGTON DC, USA. "On the street retreat, spending four days and three nights on the streets of Washington DC, USA, mere blocks from the White House, my mind often muses about giving..." The post...
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