Meditation for Peace
We invite you to take part in the Meditation for Peace organized by the Zen Kannon community on May 25th as part of the Festa Major of the Dreta de l’Eixample 2025.
Zazen for World Peace
We believe that practicing Zazen now is the best way to contribute to Peace. We all know that the causes of war are ignorance, greed, and hatred. In each meditation, we feel how zazen dissolves these three poisons and helps us rediscover Peace. All beings are interdependent, and when we extinguish greed and hatred in our hearts, we extinguish the greed and hatred of all humanity. Seated in zazen, we expand Peace to all beings across all times.
Meditating for Peace with Our Neighbors in the Dreta
With this event, we wish to share meditation and the aspiration for peace with the neighbors of the Dreta de l’Eixample. Everyone is welcome to join; we can meditate sitting cross-legged on the ground or seated in chairs arranged around the stage. No previous experience is necessary—just remain in silence, mindful of your breath. We will offer a feeling of compassion for the victims of war, who are also neighbors like us. Together, we will let the wish for Peace arise and extend it to the whole world.
Join the collective meditation and share it with your loved ones.
Zen Kannon Joins the Festa Major of the Dreixa
As an active part of the neighborhood’s community network, we join in the events of the Festa Major of the Dreta de l’Eixample with an open house and various zen meditation spaces, especially the Meditation for Peace, which will take place on Sunday, May 25th at 4:00 PM on the main stage of the festival grounds (corner of Girona and Diputació streets).
Zen Kannon’s Featured Program for the Festa Major:
Friday, May 23
6:30 PM — Introduction to Zen Meditation
7:30 PM — Zazen session
Sunday, May 25
1:00 PM — Open House
1:15 PM — Meditation and Vesak Celebration
2:15 PM — Shared potluck meal with food brought by participants
3:15 PM — Group walk to the main stage
4:00–4:30 PM — Meditation for Peace at Girona/Diputació
6:30 PM — Introduction to Zen Meditation
7:30 PM — Zazen session
Open House
On Sunday the 25th at 1:00 PM, the Open House begins. We can come accompanied by friends and family and bring food to share during the potluck. There will be a brief meditation open to everyone and a flower offering for the celebration of Vesak, the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth. Afterwards, we’ll enjoy the potluck in a relaxed atmosphere, and later we’ll go together to the Meditation for Peace.
The Open House is a great opportunity to introduce our center to friends and family. In daily life, the center maintains an atmosphere of stillness and silence, reserved for zen practitioners. The Open House is a special occasion to welcome visitors and share this space with our loved ones.
Practicing Zen in the Street
The Meditation for Peace, from 4:00 to 4:30 PM and officially part of the neighborhood festival program, is a chance to offer our silence and our presence as a collective expression of peace and awareness—to send this aspiration for Peace to all beings, especially to those suffering the consequences of war.
We encourage you to take an active part and invite your friends and family. And if you would like to collaborate as a volunteer to help with the organization, please let us know.
With gratitude and a spirit of community,
Zen Kannon Meditation Center
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 665, 08010, Barcelona
Link to the Meditation for Peace poster in PDF (for printing):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKLfIkV39H9jyiqiN4DhP5cli7iX2avP/view?usp=drive_link