Roshi Joan Halifax
@joanhalifax.bsky.social
Abbot and Founder, Upaya Zen Center
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AWARENESS IN ACTION: LOVE with Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg, Online December 14, 11-12:30, PM, MT, free
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upaya.org/program/awar...
A world without empathy is a world that is dead to others. If we are dead to others, we are dead to ourselves. The sharing of another’s pain can take us past the narrow canyon of selfish disregard and even cruelty and into the larger, more expansive landscape of wisdom and compassion. Joan Halifax
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A world without empathy is a world that is dead to others. If we are dead to others, we are dead to ourselves. The sharing of another’s pain can take us past the narrow canyon of selfish disregard and even cruelty and into the larger, more expansive landscape of wisdom and compassion. Joan Halifax
“We live in a culture that celebrates activity. We collapse our sense of who we are into what we do for a living. The public performance of busyness is how we demonstrate to one another that we are important.”
― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge
― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“We live in a culture that celebrates activity. We collapse our sense of who we are into what we do for a living. The public performance of busyness is how we demonstrate to one another that we are important.”
― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge
― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge
AWARENESS IN ACTION: LOVE with Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg, Online December 14, 11-12:30, PM, MT, free
upaya.org/program/awar...
upaya.org/program/awar...
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
AWARENESS IN ACTION: LOVE with Frank Ostaseski and Sharon Salzberg, Online December 14, 11-12:30, PM, MT, free
upaya.org/program/awar...
upaya.org/program/awar...
today, join us: 11-12:30PM MT
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
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Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
today, join us: 11-12:30PM MT
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
"Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism."
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism."
Nov 23, 11-12:30PM MT
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nov 23, 11-12:30PM MT
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
Join FRANK OSTASESKI AND ROSHI JOAN
Gratefulness and Generosity (Free, Online)
www.upaya.org/program/grat...
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
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
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
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
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
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
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
Register as a self-paced program (FREE): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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
Register as a self-paced program (FREE): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
tonight's session with christiana figueres in a prerecord was utterly powerful. she is a tower strength and wisdom. she just returned to costa rica from brazil and cop30, and buddha willing, will touch in tomorrow live in our sunday session.
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
tonight's session with christiana figueres in a prerecord was utterly powerful. she is a tower strength and wisdom. she just returned to costa rica from brazil and cop30, and buddha willing, will touch in tomorrow live in our sunday session.
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
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
Join online (free): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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
Join online (free): www.upaya.org/program/awak... @joanhalifax.bsky.social
Roshi Joan's session in Awakened Action is at 11:15 Mountain Time today. www.upaya.org/program/awak... Free online now and in perpetuity just by registering
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Roshi Joan's session in Awakened Action is at 11:15 Mountain Time today. www.upaya.org/program/awak... Free online now and in perpetuity just by registering
THIS WEEKEND, join us!: 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 to join online for FREE: www.upaya.org/program/awak...
Awakened Action: Making the Future in the Present, Nov. 14 – 16, 2025 (in person + online)
Join renowned writers Terry Tempest Williams and Rebecca Solnit, lawyer and Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown, beloved Zen teacher and social activist Roshi Joan Halifax, and climate activist Christiana ...
www.upaya.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
THIS WEEKEND, join us!: 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 to join online for FREE: www.upaya.org/program/awak...
eating polenta
reading about Epstein
the stomach turns
reading about Epstein
the stomach turns
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
eating polenta
reading about Epstein
the stomach turns
reading about Epstein
the stomach turns
Do not believe them.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Do not believe them.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
Ciao, Bambino ... my close friend, Christiana Figueres speaks!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World must ‘honour 1.5C’, small island states insist at Cop30 summit – as it happened
The 1.5 temperature limit is not a political slogan, it’s a lifeline, the small island states say, as climate discussions continue in Belém
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ciao, Bambino ... my close friend, Christiana Figueres speaks!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
northern lights gone south
hiding behind the mountain
sad to miss the show
hiding behind the mountain
sad to miss the show
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
northern lights gone south
hiding behind the mountain
sad to miss the show
hiding behind the mountain
sad to miss the show
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This beautiful book by Miya Ando just arrived: WATER OF THE SKY. A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
This beautiful book by Miya Ando just arrived: WATER OF THE SKY. A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
Water of the Sky by Miya Ando: 9780262049863 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionar...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790358...
This beautiful book by Miya Ando just arrived: WATER OF THE SKY. A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
This beautiful book by Miya Ando just arrived: WATER OF THE SKY. A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
Want to feel inspired? There are 1000 ways to put sand in the gears, to mock the humorless thugs, and make it just a bit harder for them to win. How about that election, eh?
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Want to feel inspired? There are 1000 ways to put sand in the gears, to mock the humorless thugs, and make it just a bit harder for them to win. How about that election, eh?
This weekend, Terry Tempest Williams, Valerie Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, Christiana Figueres (online):in person, online, this weekend.
AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
Awakened Action: Making the Future in the Present, Nov. 14 – 16, 2025 (in person + online)
Join renowned writers Terry Tempest Williams and Rebecca Solnit, lawyer and Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown, beloved Zen teacher and social activist Roshi Joan Halifax, and climate activist Christiana ...
www.upaya.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This weekend, Terry Tempest Williams, Valerie Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, Christiana Figueres (online):in person, online, this weekend.
AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
AWAKENED ACTION: Making the Future in the Present
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
www.upaya.org/program/awak...
JOIN US TODAY Grateful for my time with TARA BRACH, a voice of sanity and care in the midst: DO NOT MISS!
Nov 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion. Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
Nov 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion. Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
JOIN US TODAY Grateful for my time with TARA BRACH, a voice of sanity and care in the midst: DO NOT MISS!
Nov 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion. Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
Nov 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion. Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
Looking forward to my time with Tara Brach, a voice of sanity and care in the midst:
DO NOT MISS!
Sunday, November 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion.
Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
DO NOT MISS!
Sunday, November 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion.
Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Looking forward to my time with Tara Brach, a voice of sanity and care in the midst:
DO NOT MISS!
Sunday, November 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion.
Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
DO NOT MISS!
Sunday, November 9, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, MDT.
AWARENESS IN ACTION and how we bridge the divides in the midst of conflict and confusion.
Online and free
www.upaya.org/program/enga...
Seven years ago today, my teacher Roshi Bernie Glassman died. My gratitude for his support, wild wisdom, and generosity is boundless.
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Seven years ago today, my teacher Roshi Bernie Glassman died. My gratitude for his support, wild wisdom, and generosity is boundless.
what does autumn bring
a lone maple turning gold
forlorn and beautiful
a lone maple turning gold
forlorn and beautiful
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
what does autumn bring
a lone maple turning gold
forlorn and beautiful
a lone maple turning gold
forlorn and beautiful
Reposted by Roshi Joan Halifax
This weekend, Tara Brach joins Awareness in Action to teach a session on “Disarming the Heart: Practices for Bridging Divides." Nov. 9th. 11am MST.
This session will be translated into Italian. Learn more on the program page!
FREE + online.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/enga...
This session will be translated into Italian. Learn more on the program page!
FREE + online.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/enga...
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This weekend, Tara Brach joins Awareness in Action to teach a session on “Disarming the Heart: Practices for Bridging Divides." Nov. 9th. 11am MST.
This session will be translated into Italian. Learn more on the program page!
FREE + online.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/enga...
This session will be translated into Italian. Learn more on the program page!
FREE + online.
Register here: www.upaya.org/program/enga...