BCD Weekly Meditation Group
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Zoom Event
​​This is a weekly meditation group facilitated by Linda Modaro. It is a welcoming drop-in group—join when you can.

Meeting ID: Meeting ID: 893 5609 8014
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89356098014?pwd=[REDACTED]

What to Expect
Each session begins with an invitation to bring your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with activism into your meditation; holding them in the conditions of Kindness and Curiosity. This is a silent, self-guided meditation practice. You may discern if this feels right for you in the moment; if not, you are welcome to do the practice of your choice.
● During meditation, cameras are generally off so you can focus on your practice. If keeping your camera on helps you feel more connected, you are welcome to do so.
● After meditation, we encourage you to write down and reflect on your experience.
● A few participants will have the opportunity for a short conversation with Linda Modaro about their meditation while others listen and observe.
● Each session closes with a group discussion on topics that naturally emerged from meditation and reflection.
Session Flow
● 9:00–9:05 am PT – Invitation: for meditation and activism
● 9:05–9:25 am PT – Meditation: 20 minute silent meditation (cameras on or off)
● 9:25–9:35 am PT – Reflection: remembering and recollecting your experience
● 9:35–9:45 am PT – Sharing: short conversations about meditation experience between a meditator and Linda Modaro while others listen
● 9:45-10:00 am PT – Group discussion: on themes arising from practice and reflection
About the Facilitator
Linda Modaro is the founder and lead teacher at Sati Sangha, a vibrant online meditation community offering daily Reflective Meditation sessions and online retreats throughout the year. She is co-author (with Nelly Kaufer of Pine Street Sangha) of Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company.
Linda Modaro

No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance
2025-10-18
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
See map of locations at:
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/map/

BCD Coordinating Committee
2025-10-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom Event
This is a meeting for BCD Coordinating Committee members only.

BCD Live Interview: New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism: Julia Sagebien interviews Daiken Nelson Roshi
2025-10-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Event
In the second of a series of monthly live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews Daiken Nelson Roshi about the foundations of and his vision for engaged Buddhism. The interview will last 30 minutes and be followed by an opportunity for question and answers by viewers. Daiken is the guiding teacher of the Pamsula Zen Center in NYC and the Iowa City Zen Center. Before receiving Dharma transmisison, Daiken practiced for over three decades with teacher in the White Plum and Zen Peacemaker lineages. He founded the Mandala Cafe, a nonprofit that offers free culinary training to people having trouble finding and keeping employment as well as offering free weekly meals in central Harlem.

In later months, the series includes live interviews with the Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi from Chuang Yen Monastery, Tara Brach from the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, Mushim Patricia Ikeda from the East Bay Meditation Center, Joshin Byrnes from the Breadloaf Mountain Zen Community, Sinclair Shinryu Thomson Roshi, abbot of the Village Zendo, the Rev. angel Kyodo williams from the Center for Transformative Change, and Ellen Korman Mains, author and long-term student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. These broadcasts will be recorded and later available as YouTube videos and as podcasts on Subtack, Apple podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast venues.
To Join, click: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8246019794?pwd=[REDACTED]
–

Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – BRIDGING with Tara Brach
2025-11-09 13:00 - 14:30
Disarming the Heart—Practices for Bridging Divides
Do you sometimes demonize those whose views and actions feel threatening or harmful? In these times of deep polarization, the suffering of our world arises from a trance of forgotten belonging—and the hope for healing lies in remembering, together. This session offers experiential practices to help us soften the heart and begin bridging the divides within and around us.
Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold.
Registration link:
https://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-november-2025/

BCD Action Committee Meeting
2025-11-11 18:00 - 19:00

BCD Communications Committee
2025-11-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Event
This is a members-only meeting for Communications Commitee members to dicuss communications strategy regarding the BCD website, press releases, social media, telecasts and podcasts, Substack publications, and newsletter.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact Amaury Cruz at <amaurycruz@yahoo.com>.

AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
2025-11-14 - 2025-11-16
This special gathering is a time to explore how in this very moment, we make the future in the present. Today, we find ourselves moving against attempts to step backward into greater and greater harm. In this important time together we will explore through teachings, story, practice, meeting each other warm hand to warm hand, the treasures of imagination and revolutionary joy, the gift of moral beauty as resistance against moral injury, the liberating power of wise hope, the brave stepping toward the good, and the special skill of discovering the way forward in a pace that is sane, but with the commitment to go!
Five remarkable women will guide us in this time together… renowned writers Terry Tempest William and Rebecca Solnit, lawyer and Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown, beloved Zen teacher and social activist Roshi Joan Halifax, and on Saturday evening, climate diplomat Christiana Figueres who hopes to join us from Brazil, where she will be part of the COP30 in Belem.
Detailed schedule and registration at:
https://www.upaya.org/program/awakened-action-making-the-future-in-the-present-online-2025/

BCD Coordinating Committee Meeting
2025-11-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom Event

Mindful Converations: Inner Connection and Interconnection
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Event
For members who want to engage in a process of mindful reflection together, BCD now offers a monthly Mindful Town Hall on the third Wednesday of every month, from 7 to 8:30 pm New York time.

This gathering differs from a traditional town hall. It is not a forum for debate or opinion-sharing. Instead, it is an opportunity to reflect on our internal responses, how events are landing within us, and to discover meaning through shared presence. It includes a 15-minute meditation, breakout rooms (usually in pairs), and group dialogue.

Together, we co-create a respectful, supportive space that honors both our common ground and our diverse experiences. The blend of meditation, small-group sharing, and collective dialogue is designed to foster connection—within and between us, enriched by our differences.

Serge Prengel will facilitate these sessions.

There is a 4-minute video describing this event on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qju2WyneiUs

To register for please visit: https://lu.ma/bknnqyan

Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:30
Join Shodo Spring as she discusses her new book: OPEN REALITY Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
Open Reality speaks to the world behind and beneath our daily collective trauma. It opens practical possibilities for creating a shared, flexible culture that knows the natural world both as family and as a working partner. It invites the reader to a world of possibility. What if industrial civilization isn’t the best that humans can do? What if we weren’t alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings?
Registration at:
https://hive.zenpeacemakers.org/events/193616

Buddhist Voices for Immigration Justice: Compassion in Action
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom Event
BCD, in partnership with the Insight Meditation Center of Washington will be holding a virtual Town Hall on Immigration. “Buddhist Voices for Immigration Justice: Compassion in Action” will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00-7:30pm EST. Our panelists: Tara Brach, whose teachings include a full, compassionate engagement with our world; Lama Rod Owens, an international influencer with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity and spiritual practice; Dr. Marisela Gomez, grassroots activist and advocate for spiritual practice with community organizing; Lenni B. Benson, Professor of Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. The Town Hall will feature an audience Q&A as well as a Call to Action with practical next steps for advocacy and opportunities to stay connected. Register for this event: https://imcw.org/event/?eventId=1665

BCD Coordinating Committee Meeting
2025-11-21 17:00 - 17:45 | Zoom Event
Meeting of BCD Coordinating Commitee

BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club
2025-12-03 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-03 18:15 - 18:30, 2025-12-09 18:15 - 18:30 | Zoom Event
This weekly book club is hosted by Kat Symington Muendell. Each week, members will discuss a book or article related to engaged Buddhism.
Email Kat at bcdbookclub@gmail.com for the weekly reading assignment.
To join, click on: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85776917873?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 857 7691 7873
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism: Conference for Faith Leaders and Concerned New Yorkers
2025-12-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Interfaith Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, United States
Organized by the Interfaith Center of New York, the keynote address will be given by Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Other speakers include Dr. David Greenberg, author of John Lewis: A Life, Dr. Michael E. Lee, author of Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero, Dr. Kim Shively, author of Islam in Modern Turkey, Dr. Duncan Ryuken Williams, author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. To register, click here. There is a $20 registration fee for this conference.

BCD Live Interview: New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism host Julia Sagebien interviews Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña Roshi
2025-12-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Event
In this third of a series of monthly live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews Francisco “Paco” Lugoviña Roshi about his vision for engaged Buddhism. The interview will last 30 minutes and be followed by an opportunity for question and answers by viewers. Roshi Paco is a Dharma heir to Bernie Glassman Roshi and a board member of the Zen Peacemakers organization. He co-founded the Hudson River Peacemaker Center: House of One People, in Yonkers, New York. He has worked with gang members and youth and participated in Bearing Witness Retreats and pilgrimages to Tibet, Auschwitz-Birkenau, India, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, as well as on the streets of New York and other US cities.
You can join via Zoom here

BCD Coordinating Committee Meeting
2025-12-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom Event
Meeting of the BCD Coordinating Committee

SDGs (the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) & Buddhism: What can we do now for our future?
2025-12-13 17:00 - 19:00
We, the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, Higashi Honganji, Nichiren Shu, and Soto Zen International Centers in the Bay Area, have come together to form the Bay Area Buddhist Association (BBA).Together, we are organizing an interdenominational Buddhist event to explore how Buddhism relates to the United Nations SDGs.
Join us for the next event in our ongoing series exploring the deep connection between Buddhist principles and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs are 17 global goals adopted by 193 countries of the United Nations to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030. They call for inclusive, sustainable action that leaves no one behind.
Speakers:
Rev. Kiyonobu Kuwahara, Jodo Shinshu
Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, Nichiren Shu
Rev. Konjin Godwin, Soto Zen
Register at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDmhavOhCIX7GQu5b58wmZYrQkVuHxS4WRKNm1B3r4QomwLA/viewform

Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – LOVE with Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg
2025-12-14 13:00 - 14:30
Join us in the continued commitment to social and environmental engagement and justice in this very complex time, to exploring the roots of structural violence in our social systems, and to engaging in the world in a courageous way based on contemplative practice and views that actualize non-separateness, interbeing, equity, compassion, justice, integrity, courage, dignity, and unshakable awareness.
This monthly series is stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax, Sensei Kodo Roen, and Sensei Wendy Dainin Lau.
We are so grateful that Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg are enthusiastic to do this program online.
Frank Ostaseski (Ko-i Jido) is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. Frank was empowered as a Dharma Holder (Hoshi) by Upaya’s Abbot Roshi Joan Halifax.
Sharon Salzberg is a pioneer in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher and NY Times bestselling author. She has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching.
Register at
https://www.upaya.org/programs/register.php?id=2835
