Opera ticket
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Hi. If anyone is interested in seeing La Boheme matinee on March 3 I have a ticket to give away. Email francine@....
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Meet at ZCD Mon. 11:15 am for rideshares to Rally at State Capitol for 12 noon
Meet at ZCD 02 17 and share rides to Rally at State Capitol to restore US Constitutional and legal practices in Washington, D.C. and nationwide. Will return 1 - 2 pm. Please announce after Sunday ZCD sitting. Bring small signs (<2' x 3'), if you please, and snacks or drinks, plus friends and relatives. Contact knott.bob@..., 303-388-0808, with questions or comments.
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US Constitutional Challenges
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There will be a 02 17 Presidents' Day demonstration at 12 noon at the State Capitol with support of several groups including the 50501 folks who were among leaders for the excellent Feb. 5 rally which drew 2000+ demonstrators. - https://www.reddit.com/r/DenverProtests/comments/1ilyw68/its_official_the_next_50501_protest_is_on/ We may be able to meet at the Capitol or ride share from ZCD at 11:20 am. Please report willingness to attend and protest the illegal or unconstitutional policy actions of the Trump Administration. Bob Knott / Zen Peacemakers.
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Gatha for the Week of Feb. 15th through the 21st
Gatha Practice at ZCD Gatha for the Week of Feb. 15th through the 21stVerses for Starting the Day: Turning on the Water Water flows from high mountain sources. Water runs deep in the earth. Miraculously, water comes to us and sustains all life. For a more in depth discussion of this gatha see the 2022 edition of Present Moment Wonderful Moment by Th¨ªch Nh?t H?nh. In the Forward Sister Chan Duc includes a short history of Gathas and discusses the question: ¡°How can mindfulness become a part of my daily life?¡± She also offers a way to deepen a Gatha practice. In the Introduction Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what are Gathas and his history using Gathas as a novice monk. Nh?t H?nh, Th¨ªch. Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition. Parallax Press, 2022. Gassho,Martin
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Buddhism and Queerness
Dear Sangha, The ZCD recently purchased some books on the intersectionality of Buddhism and LGBTQ+, and in some books race and class. They are on their own designated shelf space in the upstairs library. Feel free to check them out. If you have any questions about the LGBTQ+ sitting and discussion group, please reach out to me or to Ythene Wakeford. Yours in the Dharma, Brett
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Help Joseph Otim's Kids Return to School in Uganda
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Hi everyone, I've started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for a friend and former colleague in Uganda who has been impacted by the USAID shutdown around the world. He was working on a USAID and CDC funded program run by the Baylor Foundation which was providing HIV/AIDs and TB treatment to children in western Uganda where these remain prevalent issues. He has had to pull his kids out of school for this term and is suffering with food insecurity. Please see the link below or QR code attached and please pass along to your networks. https://gofund.me/56addfbb Gassho, David
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Gatha for the Week of Feb. 8th through the 14th
Gatha Practice at ZCD Gatha for the Week of Feb. 8th through the 14thVerses for Starting the Day: Opening the Window Opening the window, I look out onto the Dharmakaya. How wondrous is life! Attentive to each moment, my mind is clear like a calm river. For a more in depth discussion of this gatha see the 2022 edition of Present Moment Wonderful Moment by Th¨ªch Nh?t H?nh. In the Forward Sister Chan Duc includes a short history of Gathas and discusses the question: ¡°How can mindfulness become a part of my daily life?¡± She also offers a way to deepen a Gatha practice. In the Introduction Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what are Gathas and his history using Gathas as a novice monk. Nh?t H?nh, Th¨ªch. Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition. Parallax Press, 2022. Gassho,Martin
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Fw: Truth, Healing, & Repair as a Pathway to Peace Event
Hi Sangha, I thought this this ZPI event might be of interest. David From: Zen Peacemakers <zenpeacemakers@...> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2025 10:46 AM To: David Gibson <DGibson@...> Subject: Truth, Healing, & Repair as a Pathway to Peace Event Peacemaker Featured Event (Feb. 12th, 2025) ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Truth, Healing, & Repair as a Pathway to Peace Event Peacemaker Featured Event (Feb. 12th, 2025) Feb 6 READ IN APP Truth, Healing, and Repair as a Pathway to Peace Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 12:00pm Eastern Time, Zoom Author Hilary Giovale will share stories of learning that her ancestors were early settlers, colonizers, and enslavers in the United States. Through relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands, she began developing an awareness about the harms of colonialism that are still unfolding. She will detail a nine-year process of introspection that has helped her begin the process of building right relations, nine generations after her ancestors first immigrated from the Scottish Highlands. During this talk, Hilary will refer to a guide to making a personal reparations plan, the resources available on her website, and her recently published book Becoming a Good Relative. Register Here Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer, and community organizer who lives on Hopi, Din¨¦, Apache, and Havasupai land in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is a ninth-generation American settler, descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships. She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. She is the author of Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair. With gratitude, The Zen Peacemakers Team info@... You¡¯re currently a free subscriber to Zen Peacemakers. For the full archive, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid Like Comment Restack ? 2025 Zen Peacemakers, Inc. 190 Valley Vista Lane, Boulder, Colorado 80302 Unsubscribe
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50501 Movement - Weds Feb 5 ~ 12 noon - Demonstration
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A Colorado gathering to protest recent, national political developments will be held tomorrow. Attendance from 12 noon until 1 or 2 pm at the State Capitol will be appreciated by concerned citizens. The Westword article linked below has useful info. We can show solidarity for an hour or two, while the full 12 noon to 8 pm time frame may allow more working folks to check in. Bring signs if you please. https://www.westword.com/news/denver-fifty-state-capitol-protest-when-where-what-to-know-23293344 https://www.instagram.com/50501movement/ https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300 Please contact Sangha friends to consider car pools, Uber or buddies for bus transport, etc. Yours in the Dharma, Bob Knott
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Gatha for the Week of Feb. 1st through the 7th
Gatha Practice at ZCD Gatha for the Week of Feb. 1st through the 7thVerses for Starting the Day: Making the Bed Making the bed with joy, I tidy up my life. As I guard body and mind, bit by bit the afflictions end. For a more in depth discussion of this gatha see the 2022 edition of Present Moment Wonderful Moment by Th¨ªch Nh?t H?nh. In the Forward Sister Chan Duc includes a short history of Gathas and discusses the question: ¡°How can mindfulness become a part of my daily life?¡± She also offers a way to deepen a Gatha practice. In the Introduction Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what are Gathas and his history using Gathas as a novice monk. Nh?t H?nh, Th¨ªch. Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition. Parallax Press, 2022. Gassho,Martin
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Fw: Join double Emmy-Award winning narrator and Zen priest, Peter Coyote
Hi Sangha, Sharing the details of this upcoming ZPI event next week for everyone's information. David From: Zen Peacemakers <zenpeacemakers@...> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 9:33 AM To: David Gibson <DGibson@...> Subject: Join double Emmy-Award winning narrator and Zen priest, Peter Coyote Peacemaker Featured Event (Feb. 6th, 2025) ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Join double Emmy-Award winning narrator and Zen priest, Peter Coyote Peacemaker Featured Event (Feb. 6th, 2025) Jan 30 READ IN APP Tongue of a Crow (Stahlecker Selections), Peter Coyote¡¯s book of poetry Activity and Stillness: Practice to Avoid Becoming the Problem We¡¯d Like to Solve Thursday, Feb. 6th, 12pm Eastern Time, Zoom Join a presentation by Peter Coyote: ¡°Suzuki Roshi once said that for those of us who live outside the monastery, ¡®You must be very patient.¡¯ I¡¯d add not only with others, but with yourself as well and the difficulties of understanding that we are often the unwitting collaborators in participating in the problems we¡¯d like to end. Politics is the study and practice of relationships between people and that seems to me a good working definition of Buddhism (if we include the old illusory, mischief-inducing ¡®self¡¯) and we don¡¯t lose sight of the precepts as we try to support positive change.¡± Register Here PETER COYOTE has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. His work includes some of the world¡¯s most distinguished filmmakers, including: Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Sidney Pollack and Jean Paul Rappeneau. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films, including Ken Burns, National Parks, Prohibition, The West, the Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts , for which he received his second Emmy in 2015. Recently he has done Vietnam, The History of Country Music, a six hour series on Ernest Hemingway and most recently The American Buffalo for Mr. Burns. Mr. Coyote¡¯s memoir of the 1960¡¯s counter-culture Sleeping Where I Fall which received universally excellent reviews, and a chapter of which won a Pushcart Prize for excellence, has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book, The Rainman¡¯s Third Cure: An Irregular Education, about mentors and the search for wisdom, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. Last year he published The Tongue of a Crow, his first book of poems, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha, about his workshops with masks and improv exercise to induce altered states. His newest book, Zen in the Vernacular will be released in early 2020 by Inner Traditions Press. Mr. Coyote is also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and ¡°transmitted¡± teacher, working with his students in Wild Dog Sangha. With gratitude, The Zen Peacemakers Team info@... Thank you for being a subscriber to our newsletter. If you know someone who would enjoy being a subscriber too, please share this with them Share Zen Peacemakers Zen Peacemakers is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. All gifts are tax-deductible in the US. EIN 13-3030252 Like Comment Restack ? 2025 Zen Peacemakers, Inc. 190 Valley Vista Lane, Boulder, Colorado 80302 Unsubscribe
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Monday Morning Online Sittings
Dear Sangha, Starting tomorrow, January 27, we¡¯re pleased to begin offering Monday morning Zoom sittings, giving everyone the opportunity to sit zazen together online every weekday morning. The sittings will be conducted in silence, with bells marking the start and end and a midpoint signal for posture change. There will be no opening or closing ceremonies. Use our regular meeting link to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84873524765?pwd=YVB5Y0ttNWpmZUNQZE0yS3FPcWRQdz09 For a full schedule of weekday morning zazen, both in-person and online, please visit our website calendar¡ªit's a wonderful way to begin your day! -- Bill Hamaker (he, him)
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Zen Peacemaker Presentation by Red Pine
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I know we have a lot of Red Pine fans in our sangha so I wanted to share this upcoming virtual event on the Zen Peacmakers website. I recently participated in a conversation with author Pico Iyer and it was fascinating! Peter Coyote is also presenting next month. A Conversation with Writer & Translator Bill Porter/ Red Pine https://hive.zenpeacemakers.org/networks/events/157160 Bill H
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Zen (ìø), a 2009 film about the life of D¨gan.
Sangha, I've sent this link out to a few people and thought others may also enjoy this film biography of D¨gen: ZEN (2009) The Life of Zen Master Dogen (Jpse. with Eng. Subtitles). Full film. youtube.com Gassho,Martin
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Metro Caring Volunteer Opportunity - Save the Date - February 20
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Hi everyone, Our next volunteer opportunity at Metro Caring Foodbank is coming up on Thursday, February 20. We will meet at 11:30 for a short Council Circle before starting our noon - 3:30 pm shift. ZCD has been sending volunteer crews to Metro Caring for a number of years - so we typically have a few experience folks that "know the ropes". We work in the warehouse sorting incoming food, stocking the shelves in the market place, checking community members in for their appointments, weighing and checking community members out, etc. We can take a crew of up to 10 people. This is a great opportunity to live out the Zen Peacemakers International tenets of not knowing, bearing witness, and taking action in a practical way in our community. I will send out another email with all of the details when we get a couple of weeks out - but just wanted to get this on everyone's radar for now. You can reach me by email or by phone or text at 720-671-0960. Gassho, David
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Gatha for the Week of Jan. 18th through the 24th
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Gatha Practice at ZCD Gatha for the Week of Jan. 18th through the 24thVerses for Starting the Day: Taking the First Step of the Day Walking on the earth is a miracle! Each mindful step reveals the wondrous Dharmakaya.* For a more in depth discussion of this gatha see the 2022 edition of Present Moment Wonderful Moment by Th¨ªch Nh?t H?nh. In the Forward Sister Chan Duc includes a short history of Gathas and discusses the question: ¡°How can mindfulness become a part of my daily life?¡± She also offers a way to deepen a Gatha practice. In the Introduction Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what are Gathas and his history using Gathas as a novice monk. Nh?t H?nh, Th¨ªch. Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition. Parallax Press, 2022. * Dharmakaya: the "reality body" of a Buddha Gassho,Martin
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Gatha for the Week of Jan. 25th through the 31st
Gatha Practice at ZCD Gatha for the Week of Jan. 25th through the 31stVerses for Starting the Day: Turning on the Light Forgetfulness is the darkness; mindfulness is the light. I bring awareness to shine upon all life. For a more in depth discussion of this gatha see the 2022 edition of Present Moment Wonderful Moment by Th¨ªch Nh?t H?nh. In the Forward Sister Chan Duc includes a short history of Gathas and discusses the question: ¡°How can mindfulness become a part of my daily life?¡± She also offers a way to deepen a Gatha practice. In the Introduction Thich Nhat Hanh discusses what are Gathas and his history using Gathas as a novice monk. Nh?t H?nh, Th¨ªch. Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition): Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition. Parallax Press, 2022. Gassho,Martin
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Plum Village App
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Dear Sangha, I wanted to pass on information about an app that our member Kennedy Schoonover told me about that allows you to set a timer for a mindfulness reminder. You can set how often you want the bells to sound. I have been using it for the last two weeks and at the top of every hour the bells chime and I stop what I'm doing, take three deep breaths, then return to the task at hand. I have found it very beneficial for slowing down, for relaxing, and for not taking myself too seriously. The app also has a mediation timer. The link for the app is below. Gassho, Brett https://plumvillage.app/
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Monday Mindfulness Session
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Dear Sangha, Monday the 20th I am hosting a mindfulness session over Zoom for anyone who wishes to attend. The session will be restorative in nature in that it is designed for you to simply sit, breathe, and be in the space where you are. Details are below. Take good care of yourselves. Meeting link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75554552642?pwd=63G5bVSaX2unKTUqgG1sube6HocJSN.1 Passcode: TVp65f
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Chaos Bloom
Just an FYI for those who have asked about seeing Tatianna's skit. She will be performing Smoocholi Nights at Chaos Bloom January 31. Gabrielle
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