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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
Please join us tomorrow, Sat March 14th at 11am MST, for Upaya's Buddhist Chaplaincy Program's Cohort 17 graduation ceremony.
This visionary two year program focuses on altruistic service and social transformation.
Join us in person or online live - https://www.youtube.com/user/upayazencenter/live
Buddhist precepts are not abstract ideals but guides for how we meet the world. They return us to the heart of practice: caring for one another and for this fragile world with clarity, courage, and compassion.
Portrait of Sensei Dainin taken by Sensei Kodo during Upaya's recent Jukai ceremony
Sensei James Fushin Bristol will offer tonight’s Dharma Talk at Upaya, entitled “Finding our Way”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. MST
In person at Upaya or online via YouTube Live!
Join online here: https://www.youtube.com/user/upayazencenter/live
The sacredness of a committment. The taking of the Buddhist Precepts.
A few more lovely photos from yesterday's Jukai ceremony.
Today we honored a group of joyful practitioners in a Jukai ceremony that overflowed with luminosity and an abundance of gratitude. A beautiful moment indeed.
Roshi Joan and Sensei Monshin will offer tonight’s Dharma Talk at Upaya, entitled “Open Dharma: A Time to Mark the Reality of Vow, the Presence of Care”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. MST
In person at Upaya or online via YouTube Live!
Join online here: https://youtube.com/user/upayazencenter/live
TONIGHT: THE POETRY OF COLD MOUNTAIN: A Journey with Legendary Hermit Hanshan
Led by Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi, Sensei Peter Levitt, and Roshi Joan Halifax, this weekend program inspires us to write and share our own writings.
register at https://www.upaya.org/program/haiku-online-2026/
In just a few days, we begin our much-loved Calligraphy program, led by Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi.
You can join online for FREE, with donations appreciated.
Learn more and register here: https://www.upaya.org/program/calligraphy-online-february-2026/
A brave and strong new year to all of Upaya's friends in the world who celebrate the lunar year. And really to all beings everywhere.
Yesterday, Roshi Joan, Senseis Dainin and Kodo, and the Upaya sangha joined religious leaders in an interfaith vigil in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
See photos + read the full story here:
https://www.upaya.org/2026/02/prayer-song-justice-blog/
This Friday, we begin our much-loved Calligraphy Program at Upaya, led by Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi.
Offered in person at Upaya. Plus, available online for FREE + by donation.
Visit the #linkinbio to register
A marvelous and deeply caring time together for "Sitting with Original Love," taught by Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan. Access all recordings for FREE, with donations deeply appreciated.
Register here: https://www.upaya.org/program/sitting-with-original-love-online-february-2026/
Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan this weekend at Upaya. Profound gratitude for the wisdom and teachings offered to the mahasangha.
Register for FREE + by donation by following the #linkinbio
It's not too late to join "Sitting with Original Love," with Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan this weekend. All sessions are recorded.
Registration is FREE, with donations appreciated.
Register here: https://www.upaya.org/program/sitting-with-original-love-online-february-2026/
Beginning tonight! One of the most precious resources is to share the dharma as it relates to love. Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan are offering a very special and unique weekend at Upaya. Join us.
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Online www.upaya.org/program/sitt...
BEGINS THIS EVENING (Feb 13 – 15): Register for FREE to join "Sitting with Original Love" with Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan ONLINE.
Recordings available. Donations appreciated.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/sitt... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
February Zen Circle begins next week!
This program includes Calligraphy and The Poetry of Cold Mountain, which can be registered for separately, as well as online for FREE + by donation.
Learn more here: www.upaya.org/program/febr...
Henry Shukman will offer tonight's Dharma Talk at Upaya, entitled "Original Love."
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. MST
In Person + online
Join online: www.youtube.com/user/upayaze...
Register for Henry & Roshi's program this weekend, "Sitting with Original Love," online for free: www.upaya.org/program/sitt...
This weekend, Henry Shukman & Roshi Joan will lead a very special program together, “Sitting with Original Love."
🔴 A few spaces remain to join us in person at Upaya: www.upaya.org/program/sitt...
💻 Online is FREE, with donations deeply appreciated: www.upaya.org/program/sitt...
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
– Roshi Bernie Glassman
TOMORROW: The Spirit of Service 5-part course with Frank Ostaseski begins.
This course is open to anyone and may be of particular interest to healthcare professionals and other caregivers.
Learn more and register here: www.upaya.org/program/the-... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
We are grateful to share that author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator, & friend of Upaya, Valerie Brown, will join Ro Grace for next week's BIPOC Sangha online.
During this month's gathering, Valerie will offer a dharma talk & meditation.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/bipo...
Being with Dying is a profoundly impactful training, serving this vital community of practitioners, providing important tools for work with people who have serious illnesses, as well as dying people and their families.
www.upaya.org/program/bein...
In May, Upaya will open its doors to clinicians in compassionate care for the seriously ill and dying for our annual "Being With Dying" professional training.
Please share this training with friends and family: www.upaya.org/program/bein... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
This session will be a plunge into what it means to actualize courage as we face what to some feels like insurmountable challenges. What does courage look like in relation to the authoritarianism that has unfolded so rapidly in our country?
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/the-...
The Measure of Our Humanity—COURAGE
This Sunday, Feb 1, 11am - 12:30pm MST
Online, FREE, donations appreciated
With three remarkable women, Christiana Figueres, Roshi Joan, and Rebecca Solnit.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/the-... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
NEW: The Nation is Shattered; Mountains and Rivers Remain (DU FU, 757CE) by Roshi Joan Halifax (blog) www.upaya.org/2026/01/the-... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Roshi Joan will be giving a Dharma Talk in just a few minutes — available online for FREE by registering for our Winter Practice Period. Recording will be available.
When: 11am MST
Where: online
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/wint... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Join Sesshin Online (FREE) Jan. 24 – 30
Online participants will be granted access to a resource page containing all teachings from this practice period so far.
Sesshin is fully recorded, so you can work this time into your daily life.
Register here (online, FREE): www.upaya.org/program/wint...
Join our upcoming Winter Practice Period Sesshin
Jan 24 - 30 ONLINE FOR FREE
Register for the entire WPP to gain access, as well as view all dharma talks, seminars, and teachings from this practice period.
www.upaya.org/program/wint...