Pilgrimage is a strong tradition of any Faith, mine especially; but this was a Radical Pilgrimage. Radical because I was carrying the hopes and wishes for a peaceful world of everybody on this planet, wherever I went I encouraged the world to say YES TO PEACE. On Monday 15th October 2018 I started [...]
The Tara Centre for Peace and Reconciliation is a not-for-profit social enterprise, founded by Dr Elham Kashefi and her partner Rev Jitei White After many years of networking, researching and offering ad hoc services elsewhere, we opened our doors in September 2016 as a small community [...]
Rev Jitei White Tara Peace Foundation @The Tara Centre, The Storey, Castle Park, Lancaster LA1 1TH, United Kingdom 0785 265 2631 jiteiwhite@gmail.com www.jiteiwhite.com www.taracentrelancaster.org.uk
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WHAT IS ZEN? Zen is a stripped-down, meditation-based form of Buddhism that has no interest in dogma. Zen is personal, direct experience of life passed on from master to disciple, teacher to student. ZAZEN PRACTICE Zazen ( Zen meditation ) is the most important practice in Zen. Emphasis on personal [...]
Lancaster Zen Sangha is a Buddhist practice group in the Soto Zen tradition. It is dedicated to awakening to the reality of your life and living compassionately in this society and for the sake of all beings. The core practice at the group is zazen, a meditation of wholeheartedly sitting here[...]
The White Plum Asanga is an organization of peers whose members are leaders of Zen Communities in the lineage of Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi (1931-1995), one of the great pioneers of modern Zen. Maezumi Roshi established the White Plum Asanga in the late 1970s, opening up a unique tradition of [...]
A Great Walk For Peace Darwen (Lancashire) to London Sept / Oct 2019 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the world loved peace activist. A Zen walk with great intention, with great hope, with great love. When the butterfly's wings stir the great winds of the [...]
A Great Walk For Peace Westminster Abbey, London to Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris May 2019 Bringing together these two great centres of spiritual gathering, of national heritage, this is a Great Walk for Peace and Reconciliation with the two nations of England and France. A Buddhist priest [...]