What we’re about
The Empty Circle Zen Group has been created as a working experiment open to all Sangha members and individual new to meditation with the thoughts and intention to take action towards the following goals:
- To create a space where individuals can share and reflect upon their experiences, relationships and well being in their Buddhist practice.
- To educate ourselves on current events and their impact on certain groups, on historical realities that have shaped where we are today, and to our own blind spots, privileges, and biases.
- To formulate specific protocols through which the Empty Circle Zen Group, as an institution, can skillfully address concerns about safety and inclusion.
- To build bridges with other local faith groups to see how our social justice programs can inform and support one another.
- To support community actions that address systemic oppression beyond the local confines of the institution on a national and global level.
