Peace Class with Mandy Kahn (9/30)

Once and only once, we met live at PRS, March 22, 2026. We may do it again. Stay tuned.

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Every Wednesday, 6:00 pm PT (prs.org)

Join FREE online gathering to build inner peace as well as world peace with Mandy Kahn, now in its sixth year.

Peace Class is led by activist and poet Mandy Kahn. It is a free weekly gathering for participants around the world to come together to build peace in themselves and therefore world peace as a community.

To attend, simply join this Zoom link at the West Coast start time every Wednesday at 6:00 pm (PT). us02web.zoom.us/j/82150472713 

Peace Class is presented by the Philosophical Research Society (prs.org) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Peace Class is now in its sixth seventh year. Each class meeting presents a short talk that elucidates some aspect of the true nature of peace. The talk is followed by a journaling-based practice to give each participant the opportunity to develop a set of peace-building tools to use at any time.

• LIVE: Mandy Kahn's Peace Class (9/30)

Nature is a remedy that brings peace as plants soothe and heal us, communicating via mycelia

 

Mandy cross under Kahn billboard, LA

Each hour-long session also includes a collective peace meditation (such as metta bhavana or the cultivation of "universal Buddhist loving-kindness," agape or boundless friendliness to all).

Teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim and the opportunity to share participants’ personal peace-building discoveries with the group.

Each Peace Class meeting presents a stand-alone lesson; participants are invited to drop in for any single class or the full class series.

Mandy Kahn and PRS are grateful to be joined by peace advocates and would-be activists from around the world in this supportive online space.

Instructions

Talk, guided meditation, sharing, inspiration

Zoom link at its local start time: every Wednesday night 6:00 pm (Pacific Time). This class is FREE and is open to ALL.

• us02web.zoom.us/j/82150472713
• DETAILS: Attendees are welcome to participate in the interactive aspects of class or simply observe.

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  Holy Doors: Poems (Mandy Kahn)

  ABOUT: Mandy Kahn is a California poet and peace teacher raised in Los Angeles and educated at UC Berkeley. She’s the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Holy Doors (2023). Her poems have been included in the Best American Poetry anthology series, have been featured on BBC Radio, and are seen in the nationwide newspaper column American Life in Poetry. She presented a program of her peace-building immersive poems at the Getty Museum in 2019.
• She is a frequent feature of Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal with fellow UC Berkeley graduate Editor Dhr. Seven, presenting the text of past Peace Class presentations.

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  Peace Piece: Poems Mandy Kahn

  She was also the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn, which is available from IndiePix. In 2021, Kahn presented a two-day peace concert at Meditation Mount in Ojai in conjunction with Dot Maver, director of the National Peace Academy, Fumi Johns Stewart, executive director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International, and Michael Lindfield, Meditation Mount’s board president. Mandy Kahn has been a featured speaker at many peace events, including at Peace Week, World Unity Week, and One Planet Peace Forum. Mandy Kahn serves as the Philosophical Research Society’s contributing writer and previously served two years as PRS' artist-in-residence.
• Questions? Please email events@prs.org or phone (323) 663-2167

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Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 💖

Guided Loving Kindness Meditation | Buddhism in English

(Buddhism) Mettā (Sanskrit maitrī) means loving-kindness [2, 3], friendliness [3, 4], benevolence [1], amity [4], goodwill [5], and active interest in the welfare of others [4]. It is the first of the "Four Sublime Abidings" (Brahma Viharas) and one of the Ten Perfections (pāramīs) of the Theravāda Buddhist school. More

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The Cave: A Guided Meditation (audio)

Hey, don't go in there! It could be dangerous!

This is a special meditation. Linda Pappa has intuitively been drawing caves and Earth vortices for the past few years, feeling very grounded and connected to them.

We can work with [the archetype of] The Cave in a subtle way. Fall approaches, and darkness starts to creep in. The Cave can be a symbol of winter shelter and journeying within.

My relationship with pure Earth (artist Linda Pappa)

Chiang Mai, Thailand (Linda Pappa)

Will we listen and go inward, or will we stay superficial? During a Winter Solstice ceremony, I led a meditation guided by The Cave. It felt like nothing else.

Caves, where does one begin? Caves are places of profundity, density, and form.

Caves bring us into the present, representing a sacred space of retreat. It has always been so. This is womb-consciousness, Bhumi/Gaia/Tierra's own. They are temples, holy places of offering, where introspection and deep inner transformation can take place.

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This is Mother Nature's womb, our birth canal? - Well, yeah, I mean, in a way, metaphorically.

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Returning to Earth’s womb means returning to our own center, returning to our Source and Ground, to the dark inner point of a sacred labyrinth.

I forgot I buried all that to not have to feel it.

The Cave resides inside, the deepest, most intimate spot. It holds our secrets, our traumas, our pains, and our potential for magic.

Our modern way of living does not encourage us to go into a place like this at all. It’s dark and scary. But if we dare to visit often enough, we will not only transform ourselves, but also our ties to others, our ancestors, and the greater whole.

The Great Weave, Lamu, Kenya (Linda Pappa)

The Cave can be a place of HEALING, begging us to FEEL so that we can finally process our emotions, take their lessons, and pass them through us as we notice, acknowledge, and claim them.

Inner fire digests food, warms and builds us.

The way to make ourselves feel comfortable going into darkness (and wanting to stay there long enough for transformation) is to work with the elemental energy of fire, or temperature (tejo-dhatu).

Not only is fire in the womb needed for alchemical transformation, it is also a comforting presence. The Cave can otherwise feel cold and uninviting.

• [Caves are warm and inviting, quiet and stable, which is why humans have retreated into them for ages. They provide safety, security, and refuge from outer chaos.]

What crystallized treasures are hidden here?

In the stillness, fire brings us into the present moment, now, directly reminding us of how our ancestors lit fires inside. The Cave connects us, and fire warms us to the bone.

Cave and fire take us on a trip to the center, into the primordial beginning.

Fire + Earth (Linda Pappa)

Linda Pappa and her partner David recorded the following with love, using grounding frequencies and a shamanic drum. They invite listening to this meditation by first preparing a space and holding self as safely as possible. It runs deep.

May you be guided by the inner body of Earth and yours. 

May you be warmed by your own Holy Fire. 

May you be led to dance to the rhythm of your inner drum.

• AUDIO: The Cave Guided Meditation

• Linda Pappa (lindapappa.com) edited by Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Alan Watts: Zen meditation, Why Not Now?

Sunday morning is the time for Alan Watts. He is featured on Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood on KPFK 90.7 FM every week at 8:00 am for 30 minutes. Listen now through the online archives (kpfk.org) for 60 days. Today (June 9, 2024, at 8:00 am) Watts teaches the basics of Buddhist meditation.

Alan Watts | Zen & Meditation | Why Not Now

(Official Alan Watts Org) "Why Not Now" is a discussion from Alan Watts' Zen & Meditation collection. In it, he discusses how we need silence -- not mere absence of external sound but of the internal compulsive chattering of words and calculations inside our heads. Only by such silence can we get into firm touch with the real world which our languages, signs, symbols, and mathematics represent (somewhat crudely) but are not. Such silencing of head-chatter is known in the orient as yoga, dhyana (jhana, absorption), zen (chan, seon), or the art of meditation, in which we discover by direct experience who or what we really are -- by feeling rather than verbal definition. The reason is simply that too much chattering, not only in the head, but also in listening to radio, reading newspapers, watching TV, and interminable discussion of our various political, social, legal, philosophical, and psychological hangups has put us far out of touch with the real world, which isn't words. #alanwatts #alanwattsspeech #nonduality

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• AlanWatts.org (Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood, in memoriam, June 9, 2024, Pacifica Free Speech Radio, kpfk.org); Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

May's flower full moon guided meditation

First, let's go on a wholistic word journey with Kami (VP Kamala Harris and Desi (The Daily Show)

Flower Full Moon in May 2024 guided meditation

(Hidden Aura Healing) Happy full moon. It's the fasting day (uposatha), a time to observe the Eight Precepts. Let's open our creativity with the Flower Full Moon. Allow the mind to paint a symbol that represents peace. The May full moon is about blooming into manifestation. Relax with the flower moon. Creativity is an important part of life. And we are always creating our own reality with our thoughts and views. This guided meditation helps tap into creativity. We are powerful co-creators whether we intend to be or not.

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July Full Moon Guided Meditation (video)

What July's Full Buck Supermoon in Capricorn means (womenshealthmag.com)

July 2023 Full Super Moon Guided Meditation | Chakra Attunement

(The Psychic Soul) July 1, 2023. Welcome to the July 2023 Full Super Moon Guided Meditation! Join Crystal of The Psychic Soul as we harness the powerful energies of the July 2023 full moon to shift, release, and balance our chakras (energy centers) under the potent full super moon now in Capricorn.

This guided meditation taps into the extra potent releasing and amplifying power of the July 2023 full super moon.

We can connect to lunar energies, invite Earth and cosmic energies to flow through us, balancing our chakras, and raising our vibrations.

The Capricorn 2023 full super moon holds special significance as it governs our manifestations. During this lunar phase, our words, thoughts, feelings, and visions have the potential to shape our reality.

It's a potent time to cultivate awareness of the energies we're intending within ourselves and projecting into the world.

Guided meditation offers numerous benefits for our overall well-being. By engaging in this practice, we can experience deep relaxation, reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced focus, improved sleep, and a strengthened mind-body connection.

Join this transformative guided meditation and embrace the potential for inner growth, peace, and chakra balancing.

Whether a seasoned meditator or new to the practice, this guided meditation is suitable for all levels of experience.

Get ready to tap into the power of the full super moon, align chakras, and manifest dreams in life.

If this meditation resonates, show support by giving it a thumbs up, leaving comments, and sharing it with others. The more engagement this meditation receives, the greater its reach, and together, we can positively impact humanity and shift the world.

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Summer Solstice 2023 Meditation (LIVE)

New cycle activation | summer solstice | meditation June 2023

(Calm Whale) Started streaming on June 19, 2023. Finding our bliss and rejuvenation is what this is about. The June summer solstice invites us to celebrate the abundance of earth and sun and the beginning of a new astrological cycle with shaman drum, gong, and handpan.

Love 💘

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March Guided Meditation w/ Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahmavamso, BWSA, March 11, 2023; Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who's this guy? Where does he come off meditating? He's already a rich and famous dad.

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Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahm

(Buddhist Society of Western Australia) Streamed live March 11, 2023. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.

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Full Moon Observance Meditation (video)

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Guided Meditation Full Moon January 2023

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Rainy Day Candle Gazing Meditation (11/7)

DUE TO EXPECTED RAIN, WE'LL BE INDOORS THIS WEEK IN THE MONROE ROOM of the Monrovia Community Center, 119 W. Palm Ave. We will be candle gazing (trāṭaka).

This week we're indoors.

Local Park Ranger Tod, who trained at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center or MARC, leads a secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) meditation.

The group is big, regularly reaching 19-24 participants each Monday. We gently stretch, do mindfulness of walking, then enter a guided meditation.

I can't gaze with mindfulness...or can I?

MBSR uses mindfulness (nonreactive open or focused consciousness) to approach anxious states and transform them into opportunities to grow in awareness, joy, acceptance, and happiness, with a sharing circle afterward.

Bring a shawl or blanket and an open spirit to sit with a heartfelt community nestled in LA's Foothills. FREE, no donations.

• Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Monrovia Community Center
• 119 W. Palm Ave., Monroe Room
• FREE | RSVP (Meetup)

While we were meditating last night

Jen Bradford, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Monrovia Group, Wisdom Quarterly

What did "Karen" imagine she was looking at us doing -- tripping on acid in the Sixties?

What has the world come to? We were meditating in the park, a group of 18 of us, as day turned into evening.

It's what we (Dharma Buddhist Meditation led by non-secular Ranger Tod in Monrovia) do every Monday in an exclusive neighborhood park nestled in the foothill suburbs of the great megalopolis that is Los Angeles.

Eaton Falls in Eaton Canyon, Pasadena, LA

The heat wave has settled, and a pleasant breeze blows into the bowl that is this secret park, as we sit in Concrete Zen Zero (Enso) gazing at the mountains of the Angeles National Forest above LA, near a secret waterfall (like the one at Eaton Canyon) that runs even in the height of the summer from the local watershed.

We stood, stretched, and walked mindfully, winding through the park then settled in for a guided meditation led by UCLA's MARC (Mindful Awareness Research Center)-trained Ranger Tod. Next week Ranger Eugene will be the special guest to explain the status of our former waterfall meditation stie that was hit by the climate chaos wildfires Southern California enjoys every year.

UCLA's MARC trains mindful meditators (mindfulness becoming "mindful awareness").

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What-r-u doin? I'll call the police!

We sat in a circle of folding chairs and blankets, lulled and transfixed by meditation leader Tod, who spoke by analogy of a great mountain. Then it happened. A local Karen wandering through the park in the dark turned and could not ignore what she was seeing. "Is everything all right here?!" she blurted, disturbing our sacred peace.

No one moved. No one stirred. So she yelled again. A few heads turned to find the source of the disturbance. And there she was in all her jagged haircut, huskiness, and contorted face glory, staring in confusion.

• What exactly is the "Karen" meme? (BBC News)

Americans who meditate? What the heck!

Do Americans do group meditation post-1960s?

Someone in the circle (Steve?) assured her we were. She didn't believe it but sucked it in and went on her way, no dog to walk, no reason to be out, except maybe to cure her busy-body-ness.

I would have said, "No, can you help us be better?" by inviting her to take a place in the suddenly sacred circle. But I was so serene I was in no mood to laugh or cause others to giggle in relief. We bore her concern. What could she have thought was going on? That the Kool-Aid was setting in and Tod was about to join the Rev. Jim Jones in infamy?

Walking Meditation (fordhouse.org)

We resumed. But the during the sharing phase -- which can go on as long as participants like, each contributing a gem of wisdom mined in our arduous efforts to arrive, leave the day behind, and let go of worry -- Karen came up. Rachel remembered.

Why had Karen thought we were in need of her jarring interruption? Was she looking for trouble, challenging her peers to explain themselves? Peace reigned. But she did deepen the conversation by bringing contrast to how calm and serene we were when she spoke. In any case, Simmer down, Karen.

The park is hidden in a residential neighborhood on Grand Ave. in Monrovia in the foothills

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Release emotions in 15-minutes (video)

The Mindful Movement, July 22, 2018; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Working with Emotions: 15-Min Guided Meditation to Release Suppressed Emotions

(The Mindful Movement) Take 15 minutes out of a busy day to relax and let go of any negative or difficult emotions that have been holding on. As the body unwinds, any emotional strain we have been carrying begs to be released.

Feelings we choose not to experience do not just disappear, but they are held in our physical being and can be manifested as unpleasant bodily symptoms. By releasing our suppressed emotions, we can alleviate the suffering within us. Enjoy this 15-minute meditation to do just that.

Meditation written by Mollie Raymond and read by Sara Raymond. Music Credit: "Eternal Hope" by Kevin MacLeod (ending song).

WARNING: Do not listen to while driving. Meditation is a powerful tool to support healing. But it is not a substitute for medical care. Consult a doctor or trusted health professional if needed.

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