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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – LOVE with Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis monthly series is stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax\, Sensei Kodo Roen\, and Sensei Wendy Dainin Lau. \nWe are so grateful that Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg are enthusiastic to do this program online. \nFrank 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. \nSharon 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. \nRegister at \nhttps://www.upaya.org/programs/register.php?id=2835 \n 
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-love-with-frank-ostaseski-and-sharon-salzberg/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
DESCRIPTION: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! \nFive 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. \nDetailed schedule and registration at: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/awakened-action-making-the-future-in-the-present-online-2025/
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/awakened-action-making-the-future-in-the-present/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251109T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251109T143000
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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – BRIDGING with Tara Brach
DESCRIPTION:Disarming the Heart—Practices for Bridging Divides \nDo 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. \nTara Brach is a meditation teacher\, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance\, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. \nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-november-2025/
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-bridging-with-tara-brach/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251012T143000
DTSTAMP:20260514T003413
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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – EMBODIMENT with Guo Gu
DESCRIPTION:Upaya Zen Center presents a monthly series stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax\, Sensei Kodo Roen\, and Sensei Wendy Dainin Lau. The focus is on recognizing and ending violence in relation to addressing the roots of war/genocide\, racism\, climate suffering\, economics of exploitation and extraction\, othering\, and our own delusion that we are separate from any being or thing. The faculty for this series includes: Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Christiana Figueres\, Ruth King\, Valerie Brown\, Bhikkhu Bodhi\, Father Greg Boyle\, Terry Tempest Williams\, Konda Mason\, Rebecca Solnit\, Father John Dear\, Guo Gu\, Tara Brach\, Frank Ostaseski\, Sharon Salzberg\, Roshi Joan\, and Senseis Kodo Roen and Dainin Lau. \nGuo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center\, the founder of the socially engaged intra-denominational Buddhist organization\, Dharma Relief\, and a professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He studied under the late Master Sheng Yen for over 30 years\, nine of which as his attendant monk and most senior and closest disciple. He is the author of The Essence of Chan (2012)\, Passing Through the Gateless Barrier (2016)\, and Silent Illumination (2021). \nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-october-2025/
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-embodiment-with-guo-gu/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T143000
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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – DISCERNMENT with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
DESCRIPTION: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 engage 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. \nThis monthly series is stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax\, Sensei Noah Kodo Roen\, and Sensei Wendy Dainin Lau. \nThe faculty for this series includes: Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Christiana Figueres\, Ruth King\, Valerie Brown\, Bhikkhu Bodhi\, Father Greg Boyle\, Terry Tempest Williams\, Konda Mason\, Rebecca Solnit\, Father John Dear\, Guo Gu\, Tara Brach\, Frank Ostaseski\, Sharon Salzberg\, Roshi Joan\, and Senseis Noah Kodo Roen and Wendy Dainin Lau. \nThe focus is on recognizing and ending violence in relation to addressing the roots of war/genocide\, racism\, climate suffering\, economics of exploitation and extraction\, othering\, and our own delusion that we are separate from any being or thing. \nVen. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk\, born in 1944 in Brooklyn\, New York. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School before traveling to Sri Lanka to pursue his interest in Buddhism. He received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973\, both under Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998)\, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk of the time. \nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-bhikkhu-bodhi-2025/ \n 
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-discernment-with-ven-bhikkhu-bodhi/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – NONVIOLENCE with Father John Dear
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Father John Dear will reflect on the critical importance of “nonviolence” for each one of us today\, in our hearts and our personal lives\, and for our world. He will review the basics\, point out some areas that we can actively work on\, and encourage us to do what we can together to be a force for a more nonviolent nation and world. He looks at creative nonviolence from the perspective of Gandhi\, Dr. King and Dorothy Day\, and his many friends and teachers\, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan\, Coretta Scotta King\, Mother Theresa\, Thich Nhat Hanh and Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, who nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. \nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-september-2025/
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-nonviolence-with-father-john-dear/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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