We are delighted to welcome Shodo Spring to an in-person residency at Zen Center North Shore this fall based on her new book "Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings." Over the course of three days, Shodo will share with us some practices and rituals she has developed over time in conversation with human and beyond-human beings.

The program weaves movement, discussion, and community building into an exploration of the relationship between our inner/outer landscapes and emotional resilience.

Do you have a deep sense of care for the Earth, and want to find ways to bring mindfulness to your climate response? This new online journey harnesses the wisdom of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh to teach us how to face challenging feelings and create a sense of freedom and possibility.

Join Karin Meyers for this talk noting striking parallels between ancient Buddhist and contemporary debates about plant intelligence, and how new understandings of plant learning and sociability are contributing to contemporary Eco-Buddhist thinking and practice.

If the Buddha were alive today, she would find a planet depleted of resources, a feverish global warming, and a mass extinction. It's time to admit the waters around us have grown and to face drenching to the bone. Join David Takahashi in an interactive investigation into using the Three Tenets (Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Compassionate Action) of the Zen Peacemakers to address environmental old age, sickness, and death through living harmlessly.

This half-day online gathering brings together teachers from the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training and Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy programs. Designed for anyone curious about chaplaincy rooted in Buddhist values, the event offers an opportunity to explore the rich intersections between ecological and interpersonal forms of spiritual care.

A chance to visit Palestine for the evening and meet an activist who is seeking peace despite the impact of occupation. An opportunity to practice compassionate listening, and to build bridges over barriers of separation, and participate in our shared humanity.

Typical Zen retreats are designed for intense and deep meditation experiences and include zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (group walking meditation), deep abdominal chanting, a talk at the interface of Zen and Ecodharma teachings, rest periods, samu (silent work periods) and dokusan (private interview with the teacher). To minimize spiritual bypassing, we also add council (sharing circles which include expressions of grief, fear, confusion and anger) and/or heart-centric songs everyday. (Hybrid)

Created in partnership with the BESS Family Foundation, this is an eight-week live online course for young adults 18-35 that invites us to examine our relationship to a changing Earth and World: Earth as the living planet we breathe and depend upon, and World as the horizon of meaning we inhabit. The course is offered by-donation in the spirit of generosity, or dāna.

In the second of a series of monthly live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews the Pamsula Zen Center’s Daiken Nelson Roshi about his understanding of engaged Buddhism. The interview will last 30 minutes and be followed by an opportunity for question and answers by viewers.