Sit.Walk.Listen

Dear friends, dear sangha, dear community, With the aspiration of speaking from the heart it is that I write to you. The current times are calling for peace , for nonviolence , for collective healing. Sit Walk Listen LA is inviting all who would like to gather in Peace this Sunday March 6th from 10 am - 12 pm at the "Seoul International Park, 3250 San Marino Street Los Angeles, CA 90006". May all beings be together in peace. Event information and registration : https://www....eventbrite.com/.../sit-walk-listen-together... Schedule of Events: 10:00 - 11:10 am // Arrival and welcome 10:10 - 10:30 am // Mindfulness meditation 10:30 - 10:50 am // Movement 11:00 - 11:50 pm // Listening circles 11:50 - 12:00 pm // Closing and announcements Promise me, promise me this day, promise me now, while the sun is overhead exactly at the zenith, promise me: Even as they strike you down with a mountain of hatred and violence; even as they step on you and crush you like a worm, even as they dismember and disembowel you, remember, brother, remember: man is not our enemy. The only thing worthy of you is compassion invincible, limitless, unconditional. Hatred will never let you face the beast in man. One day, when you face this beast alone, with your courage intact, your eyes kind, untroubled (even as no one sees them), out of your smile will bloom a flower. And those who love you will behold you across ten thousand worlds of birth and dying. Alone again, I will go on with bent head, knowing that love has become eternal. On the long, rough road, the sun and the moon will continue to shine. See more

This Sunday we are offering a refuge space for BIPOC identifying friends. We come together as a community to take care of ourselves and each other. We hope to restore and heal through stillness, to release through movement, and connect through sharing what we are carrying in our hearts. On this day of liberation in the Jewish tradition and resurrection in the Christian tradition, we commit to our own rebirth and regeneration. To the the liberation of us all. We hope you will... join us To non-BIPOC allies, thank you for understanding the need for an all-BIPOC space. #sitwalklisten

Photo of the organizing team from yesterday's Sit Walk Listen to #StopAsianHate. Thank you to all who facilitated, helped with caretaking, and contributing your loving presence and energy. The space is only possible because of you.

TOMORROW TUESDAY 1 - 5:30 pm: be together in community during Election Day . Create a new vision for the US and the community . Share your colors and creativity . We will gather at the middle of civic center plaza , at the Larkin Street side , under the guard of the trees . #sitwalklisten #bayareaprotest #oaklandprotest #sfprotest #community #change @ Civic Center San Fransisco

Join TOMMORROW 10:30 am ! Celebrating Día de Muertos and all our ancestors who have transitioned while bringing collective energy during these times of transition . We will be honoring Black , Native and Migrant Lives. We will collect donations for the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco. You can support the Coalition’s Community Thrift Store (623 Valencia St.) by bringing any of the following: Clothing; leatherwear; shoes; furniture; ... electronics; lamps; toys; bicycles; collectibles; books; magazines; artwork; housewares; music and movies; luggage; mirrors; jewelry and accessories. You can also make monetary donations for the Coalition on Homelessness and we will make an online donation after the event. #sitwalklisten #bayareaprotest #sfprotests #oaklandprotest #blacklivesmattersf #migrantlivesmatter #nativelivesmatter @ Civic Center San Fransisco

Dear friends, dear community: Gather on Election Day, November 3rd, in community outside of Bill Graham Auditorium at 99 Grove Street (City Hall Voting Center at Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco) to send the energy of support and love to all voters, non-voters, and passersby. The intention is to create spaces for both meditators and community members to come into presence and contemplation at the end of a long and divisive election season. Bill Graham Auditorium is acting a...s the City Hall Voting Center, where new voters can register and submit conditional ballots and registered voters can drop off mail-in ballots. We will offer 4 hours of quiet contemplation in community. // 10 minutes audio/talk // 10 minutes silent meditation // 30 minutes ART! // 10 minutes walk There will also be co-creation of a mural inspired by the words: What is your dream for this country? #sitwalklisten #bayareaprotest #sfprotests @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Thank you all for co-creative a wonderful collective energy ! And , thank you for all the donations you brought ! This will impact the community positively !

Tomorrow ! Join this Sunday, October 11th for Sit.Walk.Listen at the Remember Them Memorial (19th Street/Rashida Muhammad) in Oakland at 10am-12pm. We will focus on "Honoring the Divine Feminine". We will set up an altar to offer gratitude to and acknowledgement of women of color, their life work, and legacies. As part of this altar, we will be adding household items that will later be donated to the East Oakland Collective. ... You can support the Collective by bringing: 1. Cleaning supplies (preferred items include disinfectant sprays, gloves, alcohol pads) 2. Non perishable food items (preferred items include single serving cereal/oatmeal, canned chili with beans, canned tuna) 3. Large grocery tote bags 4. Personal hygiene supplies (Bathing wipes, Individually wrapped soaps) #sitwalklisten #bayareaprotest #sfprotest #oaklandprotest #blacklivesmatter #blacklivesmattersf #womenempowerment

Dear community, inviting you to gather on Sunday @10 am at the "Remember Them" memorial. We will be honoring the divine feminine. One part of it will be dedicating to honoring the Ohlone women - initiators of life in the now occupied land of Oakland and San Francisco- Women of Color such as Breonna Taylor, Maya Angelou , Rosa Parks, Rigoberta Menchu , Morther Earth ... We invite you also to bring donations that will go to the EastOaklandCollective .You can support the Coll...ective by bringing: 1. Cleaning supplies (preferred items include disinfectant sprays, gloves, alcohol pads) 2. Non perishable food items (preferred items include single serving cereal/oatmeal, canned chili with beans, canned tuna) 3. Large grocery tote bags 4. Personal hygiene supplies (Bathing wipes, Individually wrapped soaps) Don't forget to bring your signs !

Dear community, We will be gathering this Sunday to "Honor the Divine Feminine". We will be setting up an altar to honor women of color, honoring their life work an legacy. We ask if you can bring as offering to the altar the following items which will be donated to @eastoaklandcollective Items requested for donation are:... 1. Cleaning supplies (preferred items include disinfectant sprays, gloves, alcohol pads) 2. Non perishable food items (preferred items include single serving cereal/oatmeal, canned chili with beans, canned tuna) 3. Large grocery tote bags 4. Personal hygiene supplies (Bathing wipes, Individually wrapped soaps) We will have a guided meditation, movement meditation and Listening circles. In community we can foster collective awakening to the different manifestations of human supremacy . Let’s come together to stand up to the systemic racism Black Lives are subject to. https://fb.me/e/4rFOKgOBP #sitwalklisten

What a beautiful, inspiring day. Thank you to all for your generosity and presence at Sit Walk Listen in Oakland this morning. If you weren’t able to be there, we created a video of today, so you can meditate and walk with us from your own home :) Some highlights from today: - Thanks to you, we were able to provide 5+ community members with breakfast cereals, chili, tuna and salmon, soap, bathing wipes, and other personal items. We will be donating the rest of the food and ...supplies to the East Oakland Collective, and purchasing additional items with the financial donations provided. THANK YOU! - We listened to an amazing talk by Jacob Blake's mother: https://www.google.com//healing-jacob-blakes-mother-speaks - We shared and listened with a community dedicated to love and mindful action. Enjoy our video of the day. https://youtu.be/rSDWavkcprY

See you at 11 am , Oscar Grant Plaza / Frank Ogawa Plaza. We come out to protest in stand for Black Lives, Mother Earth, nature and all beings - animals, plants, mineral- affected by human supremacy. We will meditate, walk and listen . We are aware that the air quality is poor, we will be there to gather for those not able. Please take good care of your health in deciding whether to attend. There will be a livestream for those who would like to join but not physically. It is time for awakening. So many beings are burning and crying. Action is needed. Collective awareness and action can make a change. Changing the individual self can change the collective self.