What the world needs most is the expansion of our consciousness.
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:
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!
You can listen to our interview with Aharon, here, on the Monks and Punks podcast, hosted by Sander Hicks.
Monks and Punks is a great podcast for nonviolence, progressive politics, Zen, Quakerism, democratic socialism, indie bookstores, and all the best things in life. Check out episodes with Fr. John Dear, or the new book about Dorothy Day.
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.