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Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain, 2025
Our Third Annual Weekend Retreat for Peace.
At DBZ Zen Monastery in the Catskills.
July 11-15, 2025. More Info here, or watch our video from last year.
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VIDEO SHORT: Sho-An Sander Hicks sneaks out of the formal Holy Days Zen Retreat at DBZ to give a quick video broadcast about the snow and the impending Peaceful Lake 2025!
Check out - Video highlights from Peaceful Lake, Powerful Mountain, 2024!
Big Shout Out to Aharon Dardik, our speaker from last year, who just got arrested with Columbia U. student protestors, doing nonviolence civil disobedience for his friend, Mahmoud Khalil. End the deportations! Defend the American Right to Dissent!
In 2025, Aharon Dardik will rejoin us and give us a report from the front lines, getting arrested at Columbia U to protest the iron fist of new fascism. “I shall break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love along.”
You can listen to our interview with Aharon, here, on the Monks and Punks podcast, hosted by Sander Hicks.
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Sander Hicks Publishes an Op-Ed in NY Daily News!
Read it here on his new Substack!
Excerpt:
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.