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Together we work toward peace and justice from a perspective of interconnectedness.

Today we offer deep bows to Visual Artist & Educator who will be co-leading the next GROW OUR SOULS retreat June 7th - ...
05/25/2026

Today we offer deep bows to Visual Artist & Educator who will be co-leading the next GROW OUR SOULS retreat June 7th - 10th at the beautiful Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.

About :
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron is a Tibetan transgender artist, author, community educator and frequent Buddhist Peace Fellowship collaborator who is based in New York City.

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Today we lovingly turn the spotlight to Somatic Healer and Song Weaver MawuLisa who will be co-leading the next GROW O...
05/25/2026

Today we lovingly turn the spotlight to Somatic Healer and Song Weaver MawuLisa who will be co-leading the next GROW OUR SOULS retreat June 7th - 10th at the beautiful .

About :

MawuLisa flows through life as a southern born, community based trauma healing midwife, somatic bodyworker, song weaver, lover of nature & Spirit and lifelong student of the Healing Arts. Her practice is inspired by the healing & embodiment technologies of generative somatics, Strozzi Institute, Ayurveda, Earth-based Wisdom Traditions, the Divine Feminine and the healing gifts generously bestowed to her by her Ancestors.

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Today we offer deep bows to Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Director and Dharma Teacher Kate Johnson who will be co-leading ...
05/23/2026

Today we offer deep bows to Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Director and Dharma Teacher Kate Johnson who will be co-leading the next GROW OUR SOULS retreat June 7th - 10th at the beautiful Kripalu Center.

About Kate Johnson:
Kate is a Buddhist meditation teacher and Mama who leads courses and retreats integrating meditation, restorative movement, justice, creativity, and the practice of wise relationships. She is also the author of the book Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

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Today we offer deep bows to Writer, Cultural Worker and Sangha Builder (Plum Village) Jungwon Kim who will be co-leading...
05/21/2026

Today we offer deep bows to Writer, Cultural Worker and Sangha Builder (Plum Village) Jungwon Kim who will be co-leading the next GROW OUR SOULS retreat June 7th - 10th at the beautiful .

About Jungwon:

Jungwon Kim is a writer, Soros Equality Fellow, and sangha builder in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh. Her professional career spans more than two decades of work as a communications strategist and journalist dedicated to human rights and environmental advocacy.

She served for eight years as the editor of Amnesty International’s quarterly magazine, where she commissioned and published the work of award-winning writers and photographers. More recently, she led a team of writers, videographers, and designers as the Head of Creative and Editorial for the Rainforest Alliance, an international NGO working to reduce the devastating impacts of colonial commodity crop systems.

She is the mother of two young adults, co-founder of the Love Circle Sangha (2012-20) and the Dharma Pod Sangha, an amateur musician, and a joyfully mediocre surfer. 🏄🏾‍♀️ 📿

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Join us for another Refuge Circle on Wednesday, May 20th! ✨✨✨Beloved Engaged Buddhist teacher Jess Benjamin will be join...
05/18/2026

Join us for another Refuge Circle on Wednesday, May 20th! ✨✨✨

Beloved Engaged Buddhist teacher Jess Benjamin will be joining us to host this sacred practice space, designed to support and inspire people working for change. ✨

We begin with 30 minutes of guided meditation, and end our session with a call-to-action that you can participate in directly from your meditation practice. ⬅️

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A time to gather … in person???? YES PLEASE. 🍃🍃🍃Grow Our Souls ~ Our Residential Dharma Arts Retreat for Earth Workers i...
05/15/2026

A time to gather … in person???? YES PLEASE. 🍃🍃🍃

Grow Our Souls ~ Our Residential Dharma Arts Retreat for Earth Workers is June 7th - 10th at the beautiful Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA and we are so excited!

Join us for a 4 day/ 3 night residential Buddhist meditation, song and somatics retreat for Earth workers. We invite people working on all the front lines of our climate movements – farmers, rematriation workers, educators, eco-chaplains, researchers, organizers, activists, healers (and, and, and!) to apply. ✨

We’ll enjoy rest, play, connection and deepening spiritual practice through Buddhist meditation, sound, movement, storytelling and art-making in connection to the land. There will be space to be quiet and still, to share hopes and challenges, to form connections, and engage in collective deep inquiry — all in service of deepening our capacity to meet the current moment.✨

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We are so excited to welcome beloved Engaged Buddhist teacher Kareem Ghandour, who will be we leading our Refuge Circle ...
05/12/2026

We are so excited to welcome beloved Engaged Buddhist teacher Kareem Ghandour, who will be we leading our Refuge Circle on Wednesday, May 13th. ✨

Refuge Circle is our weekly 45-minute Engaged Buddhist practice space to support and inspire people working for change. Our tangible, IRL reminder that you don’t have to do this alone. ✨

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All are welcome. ❤️

Sliding scale donations offered help to support the ongoing work of Buddhist Peace Fellowship. 🪷


Teacher Spotlight ✨✨✨We can’t wait to welcome Shah Noot who will be col-leading “What Now?! Turning Towards Sudan” on Tu...
05/11/2026

Teacher Spotlight ✨✨✨

We can’t wait to welcome Shah Noot who will be col-leading “What Now?! Turning Towards Sudan” on Tuesday, May 12th along with Aishah Shahidah Simmons.

shah noor hussein is an award-winning Sudanese writer, multimedia visual artist, and public scholar crafting narratives at the nexus of Black feminist thought and Q***r diaspora studies. shah is a doctoral candidate, Cota-Robles Scholar, and Presidents Fellow in the Departments of Anthropology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They earned their masters in Anthropology and Social Change with a focus on q***r Black feminism, liberatory pedagogy, and media production from California Institute of Integral Studies (2017).

shah noor hussein is a student and practitioner of Buddhist dharma teachings, Lucumi spiritual traditions, and Islamic wisdoms. They are the former Program Manager for East Bay Meditation Center where they stewarded mindfulness programs and retreats for diverse sanghas from an economic and disability justice lens.

shah served as the Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, and Art Director for The Arrow Journal, where they edited and published cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of culture, politics, and spirituality. Their forthcoming co-authored book chapter, “Contemplative Practice and Black Politics,” argues that Black contemplative practice has advanced diverse political projects as well as radical struggles for collective liberation, transformation, and abolition (Routledge, 2026).

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What is Sudan teaching us about weaving peace and interrupting war? And – how well are we listening? ✨Last month marke...
05/08/2026

What is Sudan teaching us about weaving peace and interrupting war? And – how well are we listening? ✨

Last month marked the third year of the current war in Sudan, with ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, and organized attempts to devastate land, culture, and life itself. ✨

Despite these conditions, people in Sudan and throughout the Sudanese diaspora have been steadily drawing on pre-colonial indigenous wisdom to resist despair and activate community – offering food, providing healthcare, and cultivating a wider sense of spiritual liberation, all while interrupting war through nonviolence.✨

On Tuesday, May 12th join Buddhist teacher and moderator Aishah Shahidah Simmons and artist, educator and public scholar shah noor for a grounded and heartfelt gathering, exploring what it means to turn – fully, intentionally, compassionately and actively – towards Sudan.

Through meditation, poetry, and deep dialogue, we’ll learn more about the history and current realities of Sudan, share opportunities to support survival and healing, and discern how Buddhist practice and poetry can animate our solidarity in ever widening circles of attention and care.

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Design by Candi Martinez - Carthen
Photo by shah noor 📸



As October came to a close and we prepared to welcome a new month, we gathered on Lenape land in Philadelphia for our *f...
11/11/2025

As October came to a close and we prepared to welcome a new month, we gathered on Lenape land in Philadelphia for our *first* in person retreat in many years, “GROW OUR SOULS”.

Inspired by the words of Chinese American civil rights and labor activist Grace Lee Boggs, we cultivated the kind of spiritual power that can interrupt violence.

With dharma, art, song, movement, stillness and contemplative conversion as our tools, we seeded the conditions for a world beyond domination, with fierce love at the center.

Simply put: WE. DID. THAT. and it was phenomenal. 💞

We are already planning our next in person offering and can’t wait to share more.

Deepest bows to Sam Rise, Jean Jacques, Marisela Gomez and Tenzin for holding our community with such profound care. We are honored to be in this work with you.

Let’s stay close, shall we? ✨✨✨

Photos by Candi Martinez - Carthen 💞

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