Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Weds. Peace Class w/ Mandy Kahn (Zoom)

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Weds. Peace Class w/ Mandy Kahn (Zoom)

Mandy Kahn, Heartsong (Meetup); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Peace Class is a free, interactive online gathering to manifest inner peace and establish world peace. It is led by Mandy Kahn and takes place every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm (Pacific Time) via Zoom. ALL are welcome to attend.

The building of world peace is the establishing of inner peace. So our global contribution, as a participant in this peace circle, is profound.

Each class meeting includes a short talk that focuses on one aspect of the nature of peace, followed by journaling as a peace-building practice. This provides each participant the opportunity to develop a set of peace-building skills that may be used at any time.

Friends MLK Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh on peace

Each class is an hour and includes a brief peace meditation, teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity to share personal peace-building discoveries with the group.

The peace circle is grateful to be joined by peace advocates from around the world in this love-filled, supportive space.

What part of peace, love, and understanding are you not understanding? Hugs for everyone!

Gandhi was inspired by Jesus, MLK by Gandhi

Each meeting is a stand-alone lesson. Feel free to drop in for a single class or the entire series.

Participants also have the option of keeping Zoom cameras off and just observing, if that contributes to a feeling of greater comfort.

This class is an online how-to, exploring a range of topics that include:

How to engage the healing perspective of a peace mind
How self-love builds world peace
How stepping out of the guilt cycle allows inner peace to occur naturally
How to build a healing ceasefire
How inner peace evolves our physical bodies
How to use the mantra “I honor all beings” to build world peace.
How peace enters the collective consciousness to heal ancient wounds

Details

Practicing inner peace leads to equanimity.

Peace Class is a FREE, weekly, Zoom-based gathering presented by the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) and led by teacher Mandy Kahn.

Every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm Pacific
Attendees welcome to participate or just watch
Bring something to write on and something to write with
Anyone is welcome to attend with or without signing up ahead of time

ABOUT: Who is Mandy Kahn?

Peace Piece (film by Courtney Sell)

Mandy Kahn is a peace advocate and poet, author of two collections of poems — Glenn Gould’s Chair and Math, Heaven, Time — both published by London-based press Eyewear.

Her work has been included in the Best American Poetry anthology series and in former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column "American Life in Poetry."

Kahn is the writer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society, a center for spiritual discourse founded in 1934 by wisdom scholar Manly P. Hall.

The World Peace Diet (Tuttle)

She teaches for PRS with a weekly online class on the nature of peace and regularly presents peace-building concerts on the PRS grounds in Hollywood, which feature poetry, classical music, and immersive performances.

She is the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn, released by Indie Pix and available on DVD and available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and elsewhere.

She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop, and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, at the New School in New York, at the Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, and at many venues in Southern California.

In addition to writing books, Mandy Kahn regularly presents immersive poems: live works of literature that incorporate performance, audience participation, and musical technique.

Yoko Ono, John Lennon, the Beatles love peace

In 2019, she presented a program of immersive and interactive poems at the Getty Museum called “Gateways to Peace,” which was performed by a cast of seven actors and three opera singers.

Kahn has been interviewed by BBC Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Flaunt magazine, among others. She is the recipient of the 2018 Shakespeare Prize in Poetry. (The Shakespeare Prize is awarded annually to a poet or playwright based in Los Angeles County; other recipients include Tom Stoppard, Ray Bradbury and Poet Laureate Dana Gioia).