Gaia: Connect. Grow. Inspire. Empower.
WOMEN, POWER, COMPASSION, REALIZATION
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GIFT FROM UPAYA AND ROSHI JOAN: SEE BELOW! Special guest: Jane Fonda, explores power and its shadow Upaya Zen Center Upaya@upaya.org www.upaya.org 505 986 8518 Santa Fe, New Mexico Dear Women, dear friends, We welcome... More »
strawberries
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Strawberries are too delicate to be picked by machine. The perfectly ripe ones even bruise at too heavy a human touch. It hit her then that every strawberry she had ever eaten --- every piece... More »
kobun chino
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in the early seventies, i met kobun chino roshi. he was incomparable still is, though passed on like kaz, a true man of no rank hunted around for kobun stories here is what i found... More »
a new day
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the work of meg wheatley is the heart of it all here are some words from her There was a geologist being interviewed. He was a beach geologist, so his field of study was beaches... More »
house made of dawn
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practice in the deep quiet of winter the southwest, clear diamond blue skies smell of pinyon smoke the dances in the pueblos echoing in our valley a sense of timelessness as i walk at dawn... More »
A time to give from the heart
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December 8, 2007 From: David Cantor and Roshi Joan Halifax www.upaya.org upaya@upaya.org (505) 986-8518 "My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us... More »
water that is too pure has no fish
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good to be home. the peace here is deep though i can feel the world rise up again and again in the waves of suffering that we call the present day. recently i was appointed... More »
WINTER PRACTICE PERIOD
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UPAYA ZEN CENTER upaya@upaya.org www.upaya.org 505 986 8518 Santa Fe, New Mexico January 4, 2008 – February 3, 2008 WINTER PRACTICE PERIOD: Exploring the Science and Art of Zen Roshi Joan Halifax with Faculty listed... More »
one hundred days
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matt galvano, at seventeen, diagnosed with cancer, did a hundred days in the hospital. now lives at upaya, and i learn from him every day....... no longer a cancer survivor....... just a human, being 100... More »
go annie dillard
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Thomas Merton wrote, "There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and... More »
roshi joan halifax
July 2008 