Sharon Salzberg interviews Joshin
For episode 128 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon speaks with Sensei Joshin Byrnes for the Real Change Series. Joshin is a Zen priest, teacher, activist, and the founder of the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Vermont. Joshin maintains a core practice of…
What Your Support Makes Possible
Daily Meditation Schedule — At the heart of our practice is meditation. We are committed to having it be accessible to all in person and online. We offer meditation every morning and six evenings a week, as well as meditation retreats throughout the year. StreetGreens —…
Peacemaker Quilts at BLMZC
Sewing the World Together We’re very excited to kick off our new Peacemaker Quilts project here at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community. Sangha members in Vermont and around the world will be sewing together blocks that will be brought together into twin-size quilts to…
The Song of Every Being
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice…
Ignorance Dharma Talk by Peggy Murray
The topic for this dharma talk arose as a result of a recent discussion. Some of you know that Joshin teaches a yearlong course called Infinite Circle designed to explore the personal, collective and systemic complexities of poverty. A second year is offered to…
Infinite Circle – Community Engaged Buddhism
At this moment we don’t have a start date for our next Infinite Circle. As soon as we have a new start date, we will announce it in the newsletter. Please sign up for the newsletter to be aware of time that we are…
Community Engaged Zen Practice
Hello Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Sangha, We’ve been cooking up some good stuff this past month. The three-week pop-up initiative, Food for Families, which started on August 17th finished up on September 4th. During a three week gap in the federal school lunch program…
Mobile Cafe StreetGreens
Dear Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community, Covid-19 has changed our lives. Things always change and our Zen practice is training on how to show up for whatever is happening, nimbly and with open hearts and minds. The Zen Peacemaker’s three tenets of Not Knowing,…
Public Online Events
Please write Petra (info[at]breadloafmountainzen.org) to receive the zoom link to our online events.
Forty-nine or Fifty? Bearing Witness to Every Life Lost
June 18, 2016 In the days following the terrible mass shooting in Orlando there were vigils and protests all over the country. We were remembering the 50 people who died, as reported in the headlines of the New York Times on Sunday morning. I…