Talk by Zenshin Florence Caplow on “Steady Gaze, Courageous Heart: Zen Practices for a Troubled World”

Climate breakdown, extinctions, the rise of authoritarian governments, escalating inequality, attacks on women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community, intensifying hatred of the “other” — these are aspects of the world we live in today that affect each of us, personally and collectively. This generation of humanity is being called upon to respond, for the sake of all future generations, human and non-human. In this talk, Rev. Zenshin Florence Caplow will share teachings, practices, and stories from one of the world’s wisdom traditions as antidotes to falling into fear, denial, or powerlessness, and to support what Buddhist ecophilosopher Joanna Macy calls “the work of the Great Turning.”