In this heartfelt episode, we turn the lens inward to explore how the Zen Peacemakers' Three Tenets—Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action—manifest in our closest and most personal relationships.

Host Geoff O’Keeffe guides a powerful roundtable conversation with eight longtime Zen teachers, including Roshis Pat Enkyo and Barbara Joshin O’Hara, Gerry Shishin Wick and Ilia Shinko Perez, June Ryushin Tanoue and Robert Joshin Althouse, and Nicolee Jikyo and Barry Kaigen McMahon.

Together, they share the deep joys and inevitable frictions of practicing and teaching together in intimate partnership. Through stories that are funny, moving, and honest, they offer rare insight into how a committed relationship can become not a distraction from the path, but the path itself.

From learning how to fight fair and communicate with compassion, to embracing the discomfort of “not knowing” and creating a shared space where healing can emerge, this episode is a love letter to spiritual partnership.

🌀 Join us for this unique conversation in the spirit of mutuality, humility, and curiosity.

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Show Credits:

* Speakers: Roshis Pat Enkyo and Barbara Joshin O’Hara, Gerry Shishin Wick and Ilia Shinko Perez, June Ryushin Tanoue and Robert Joshin Althouse, and Nicolee Jikyo and Barry Kaigen McMahon

* Recording Date: January 22, 2024

* Hosts: Geoff Shoun O’Keeffe, Jim Hōden Fricker

* Audio & Video Editing/Engineering: Jim Hōden Fricker

* Event Coordinators: Clotilde Wright, Geoff Shoun O'Keeffe

* Original Video: HERE