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October 2019
Meals at Charter House
Please join us in providing our tri-weekly free meal at Charter House. You can participate through preparing a dish to serve beforehand, or come the day of to help serve, clean, and spend time with those who attend. Please use our community site on…
Find out more »Day of Reflection October 26
Please join us for our October Day of Reflection, in which we invite the community to spend the day with us in service, sangha, and reflection. This day will be a Zen Peacemaker tradition that integrates practice, contemplation, service and community. The day will…
Find out more »Gate of Sweet Nectar
On each New Moon of the month we chant the Gate of Sweet Nectar liturgy, calling out to all those who are feeling lost and left behind. We commit to bring our whole selves to all who are suffering in our world, including to…
Find out more »November 2019
Interpersonal Meditation Retreat
Interpersonal meditation is the practice of discovering and training new mindful ways of relating with others. The practice is done with others in pairs, small groups, and large groups. We practice directly the art of seeing and being seen in relationship without needing to…
Find out more »Recommitment to the Peacemaker Precepts
Every month on the full moon we recommit ourselves to the peacemaker precepts in a beautiful ceremony of chanting and bows (fusatsu) held during evening meditation. Join us on Tuesday November 12, 5:30pm Eastern Time Other dates for recommitment to the Precepts: December 12 January…
Find out more »December 2019
Rohatsu Sesshin
Buddha’s Enlightenment With Joshin Byrnes Rohatsu is Japanese for "eighth day of the twelfth month." December 8 has come to be the day Japanese Zen Buddhists observe the enlightenment of the historical Buddha. Rohatsu is a powerful gathering of practitioners and friends who are…
Find out more »April 2020
Holy Week Street Retreat New York City, April 2020
April 8-12, 2020 New York City 2,500 years ago Shakyamuni Buddha led his monks each day in the practice of begging for food, receiving whatever was offered with gratitude. In 1996 Bernie Glassman started with the Holy Week Street Retreats. In this 2020 Holy Week…
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