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Zen Buddhist community focused on the integration of practice & social action, bringing together wisdom & compassion. Founded by Roshi Joan Halifax ⬇️ @joanhalifax.bsky.social PROGRAM LINKS HERE: https://linktr.ee/upayazencenter
This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to support Upaya.
All gifts to our General Fund through year’s end will be doubled. Your dana sustains scholarships, chaplaincy, residency, free teachings, Nomads Clinic, and our global mahasangha.
Deep gratitude,
Upaya Zen Center
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Kaz arrived today for Rohatsu... close to 70 of us will be sitting the sesshin onsite. Many others from around the world will be online. And so it is... just this. Undivided activity.... zenki!
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Rohatsu Sesshin begins soon—join and practice online with the global mahasangha! Dec 1 - 8.
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Last week, Roshi Joan and Senseis Dainin and Kodo held a Dharma Exchange with the sangha. Listen on Upaya's podcast, or watch in our Wisdom Library...
Podcast: www.upaya.org/2025/12/hali...
Watch: www.upaya.org/video/open-d...
Beginning tomorrow, our Zendo will be closed to the public and will reopen on Dec. 9th as we sit Rohatsu Sesshin.
Join our virtual mahasangha online. Available for FREE with donations appreciated.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/roha... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
On Monday, Rohatsu Sesshin begins. An intensive, concentrated, and joyous retreat to celebrate the spiritual breakthrough of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Available online for FREE. Join virtually throughout the week as we co-create this special time in community, together.
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In gratitude for all who make Upaya possible. For our teachers, the indigenous peoples of this region and our earth, this land, our local and global mahasangha. A joyous time in community. Bowing deeply. @joanhalifax.bsky.social
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Beginning soon, a special Dharma Exchange with Roshi Joan, and Senseis Kodo and Dainin.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. MST
In person at Upaya or online via YouTube Live.
Online link: www.youtube.com/user/upayaze... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Upaya's online mahasangha is a caring and dedicated virtual community. We are glad to offer Rohatsu online for FREE + by donation.
All sessions are recorded, so you can weave this time with us into your daily life, or participate fully live.
Register here:
www.upaya.org/program/roha...
The food drive has now come to a close, & we’re delighted to share that your contributions far exceeded expectations. The response has been extraordinary.
It brought us great joy to see the container overflowing with food that will be distributed to our neighbors in Santa Fe who need it most.
Today! Join Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan for a free teaching in community. We hope you can join us.
ONLINE, FREE (donations deeply appreciated): www.upaya.org/program/grat... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
THIS SUNDAY (online, FREE): "Gratefulness & Generosity."
Throughout this free program, dear friends Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan will guide us through the power & gift of gratefulness.
Sun, Nov. 23
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. MST
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/grat... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
THIS SATURDAY, Nov 22: Our end-of-year Members' Meeting will be held from 1:30 - 2:15 p.m. MST.
All details to attend on Zoom will be emailed to active members.
Explore membership with Upaya HERE: www.upaya.org/membership-i... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
It’s a chilly day at Upaya, so we are enjoying the warmth of the kitchen and preparing the day's nourishment for the sangha.
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Mist meets the mountains. Rain has arrived at our Zen center. Perhaps soon, a little snow.
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Rebecca Solnit will give tonight's Dharma Talk at Upaya.
In person and online for FREE, with donations deeply appreciated.
Grateful to have Rebecca in our midst!
Join online here: www.youtube.com/user/upayaze... @joanhalifax.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Thank you to Roshi Joan, Terry Tempest Williams, Valerie Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Christiana Figueres, Sensei Dainin, Molly Crockett, and Awakened Action participants for a truly powerful time together!
Register as a self-paced program (FREE): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
What is it to IMAGINE, and to make the future we want to see, right here, right now, in the present?
Thank you, dear Roshi, for imagining Upaya into this present moment. Watch Roshi's Awakened Action teaching in perpetuity for free here:
www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Roshi Joan's session in the Awakened Action program begins at 11:45AM. Free, online. Also, the session last night was extraordinary. You can access free and in perpetuity just by registering.
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LIVE NOW: Join Valerie Brown in session. Exploring the charnel grounds this community and world hold and face. Cultivating courage and compassion with ourselves. And the integrity and wisdom to act collectively.
Online. FREE. Recording available.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/awak...
Awakened Action begins this evening! Online for FREE + by donation
join online: www.upaya.org/program/awak...
We look forward to being in the same room with these truly amazing women – to learn from & with – through joy, grief, story, & wisdom, as we come together to MAKE THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT
A great honor to have storyteller, writer, and activist Terry Tempest Williams back at Upaya for Awakened Action this weekend. Fri, Nov. 14 – Sun, Nov. 16. Recordings available.
Join online (free): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
THIS WEEKEND: We are so grateful to welcome this visionary and wise group of women back to Upaya for Awakened Action—and to have Christiana offer a teaching from Brazil, where she is attending COP30.
Register: www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
In essence, all things in the entire world are linked with one another as moments. Because all moments are the time-being, they are your time-being.
From: 'The Moon in a Dewdrop; Writings of Zen Master Dogen'
Translated by Dan Welch and Kazuaki Tanahashi
Read here: www.upaya.org/wp-content/u...
A few spaces have opened up to join us in person at Upaya for Awakened Action this weekend!
Nov 14 - Nov 16. Also online for FREE.
With Valerie Brown, Roshi Joan, Terry Tempest Williams, & Rebecca Solnit - as well as Christiana Figueres, who will be streaming online.
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Awakened Action is this weekend and online for FREE with Valerie Brown, Roshi Joan, Terry Tempest Williams, Christiana Figueres, & Rebecca Solnit.
This Friday, Nov. 14 – Sun. Nov. 16 (all sessions will be recorded) @joanhalifax.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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This Sunday! Don't miss Awareness in Action with Tara Brach — exploring "Disarming the Heart—Practices for Bridging Divides."
Online, FREE, register here: www.upaya.org/program/enga... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Don't miss tonight's Dharma Talk with Sensei Noah Kodo Roen! 5:30 p.m. MST.
"Buddha Nature 2.0: Embodying the Four Perfections with Dōgen"
Join us in person at Upaya or online via YouTube Live.
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We will begin 2026 with Winter Practice Period. Part of Roshi Joan's limited teaching schedule, we look forward to gathering in person & online with the sangha for this time of deep practice together. You can also sign up for 1-day Zazenkai + Sesshin.
Learn more here: www.upaya.org/program/wint...
7 years ago today, Roshi Joan's beloved teacher, Roshi Bernie Glassman, died. A message from Roshi Joan:
"My gratitude for his support, wild wisdom, & generosity is boundless."
We bow deeply to the life & legacy of Roshi Bernie, & all that he brought forth in this world @joanhalifax.bsky.social
