Zoom: Mandy Kahn's Peace Class (2/4)

What's peace? Passaddhi (serene inner peace)

Friends in Peace, during this time of war, we are inspired by Aloka and the Buddhist Monks' Peace Walk. How can we bring that inner peace into our hearts, minds, and expression?

Peace activist Mandy Kahn's Peace Class (from the Philosophical Research Society in Hollywood, LA) resumes tonight for 2026.

Mandy and Seven found peace in Los Angeles.

Feel free to share link with friends. All are welcome at Peace Class (prs.org).

To join us, simply click on this Zoom link at the start time: Wednesday, 6:00 pm (PT). 

• PEACE CLASS (Wednesdays)
• FREE, February 4th, 6:00 pm (PT)
• Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/82150472713
• Meeting ID: 821 5047 2713
• Mandy Kahn: mandykahn.com

What is "peace" and who cares?

What goddess could make peace?

Peace (passaddhi) is one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment (one component of the Seven Requisites) the historical Buddha pointed out as the Path-of-Practice (that brings one to calm and insight) to Awakening.

So it holds a very honored place in the Dharma, in American life at least since the Sixties (with the Hippies and earlier due to the influence of the Quakers, Transcendentalists, Christian Gnostics, and Catholic monastics such as the Franciscans and Carmelites).

I like chanting the Buddha's actual words

In a language spoken by the Buddha (Pali), "peace" (passaddhi) is a noun (Sanskrit prasrabhi, Tibetan ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་, shin tu sbyang ba) variously translated as "serenity," "calmness," "tranquility," "repose" [1]. The verb is passambhati ([rest], calm, quiet) [2].

In Buddhism, peace refers to tranquility of body, speech, and mind (thoughts and consciousness) on the path to enlightenment. As part of the seven mental factors to be cultivated, peace is preceded by rapture (pīti, bliss, joy, supersensual pleasure) and precedes stillness (samādhi, focus, concentration). More

• The Four Divine Abidings (brahmaviharas) are peace

Inner Peace, World Peace

Publisher, Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence

Mandy Kahn hosts monthly poetry readings in Manly P. Hall's Library of World Religions (PRS)

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Inner Peace, World Peace

What can one person do to foster world peace? How does one person's state of mind [heart] affect the state of the world? How can the ideal of nonviolence be manifested in daily life?

Buddhists have been exploring questions like these for 25 centuries, and they are still timely today. Inner Peace, World Peace is the first work in any Western language to examine the Buddhist approach to nonviolence.

Warriors for Peace? Buddhist Peace Walk

Well-known Buddhist scholars, a noted authority on nonviolent struggle, a prominent Thai Theravada Buddhist activist, and other leaders in their fields collaborate to show the contemporary relevance of the Buddhist tradition.

The authors also discuss a new international movement known as "Socially Engaged Buddhism."

• Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence

Holy Doors: Poems by Mandy Kahn

I love the way Mandy Kahn makes poetry that elevates the ordinary to the sublime (DBM).

 

Holy Doors (Hat & Beard Press)

Mandy Kahn’s third collection of poems is a lyrical, luminous, and highly spiritual journey that explores:

• meditation
• prayer
• the afterlife
• the poet’s love of peace
• ever-accessible grace.

It is also a record of what life is like as our spiritual nature begins to live more fully within the body. Each of Kahn’s poems begins with earnest inquiry and ends with an ecstatic moment of communion with the part of the self that is connected to all things. Holy Doors: Poems by Mandy Kahn

• The Tao of Inner Peace (Diane Dreher)
• Can inner peace be improved by Mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial (Liu, 2015, Wiley)
• Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence (Kenneth Kraft)
• Mandy Kahn; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly