Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain
Our Weekend Retreat for Peace. At a Zen Monastery in the Catskills.
Coming Up Mid-July 2025
What are YOUR Vows?
We honor YOU with a creative writing workshop you can do right now. This grew out of our retreat last year, and can help you prepare to come to our next one in July of 2025.
Interact with the texts from the world’s great religions. Meditate. and then WRITE.
Click for the Interactive Creative Writing PDF Here.
Send your responses back to us here and you could get a free ticket to the July 2025 retreat!
He Refused to Load Bombs for Israel!!!!
IUS/Israeli Citizen Aharon Dardik was court-martialed 8 times for refusing to help the IDF genocide in Gaza. He spoke to us about his struggle as a refusenik ejected from the Israeli Army as a conscientious objector. This is the moral thing to do. Peace Now!
Sander Hicks Publishes an Op-Ed in NY Daily News!
Read it here on his new Substack!
Excerpt:
The traditions of nonviolence borrow heavily from the world's great religions. Even if you hate religion, look at it this way: the spiritual side of nonviolence is the secret path out of the crisis. It gives power and dignity to both sides. I am talking about a new way to see religion and spiritual practice. Even though we are living in a postmodern house of mirrors, spirituality is a part of the solution, not the problem. Nonviolence is already at the living core of the message of Jesus, Buddha, and the prophet Isaiah. A prohibition against aggressive war is a major tenet of Islam.