Election Day Meditation Event
Peacemaker Featured Event (November 5th, 2024)
Election Day Meditation
Tuesday, November 5th starting at 6:00 pm Eastern Time
As the US elections approach, many people around the world have been feeling anxiety and uncertainty about what the future holds. For many, election day may be unsettling. Our meditation practice teaches us to be still in the face of all life’s challenges and ecstasies, its anxieties and uncertainties, to settle into being unsettled. We vow as Peacemakers to be touched by both the joys and the pain of the universe.
Please join us for online meditation as the election outcomes become clear. We will sit three periods, beginning at 6:00pm, 6:30pm, and 7:00pm US Eastern Time. Geoff O’Keeffe will lead these periods, ending each with a short chant or prayer.
Geoff Shōun is a Dharma Holder and has been practicing in the White Plum lineage since his first introduction at ZCLA in 1975. With his family, he lived and practiced at ZCLA from 1984-'86, studied with Joko Beck in San Diego into the early 90's, and has been a student of Gerry Shishin Wick, Roshi, Roshi Ilia Shinko Perez of Great Mountain Zen Center and Paul Gyodo Agostinelli, Sensei of Eon Zen Center, near Boulder Colorado. Shōun has three adult children and three grandchildren. He has been the Zen Peacemakers Executive Director since early 2020.
With gratitude,
The Zen Peacemakers Team