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Experience the power of over 1000 New Yorkers, and thousands of online viewrs all around the world, chanting together last November when we went Live on FB from NYC!

"There is only now. You might be remembering the past or fearing the future, but it’s still now." - Krishna Das

Path of Devotion Retreat with Krishna Das- Garrison, NY: This mornings extended Mahamantra Chant with Keli Lalita, Ambika Elizabeth, Shyama Chapin, and Nina Rao Chant with Genevieve Walker and Noah Hoffeld.

"The chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it," KD promises. "That's the point of this whole thing. That's what cuts through all the 'stuff'. You get lit up. You don't have to know what it means." - Krishna Das

"That first time I was in Auschwitz (on a Bearing Witness Retreat with Zen Peacemakers), I had my harmonium with me because I had been singing in Europe, so I took it into the women’s barracks and I thought, “I will do some Devi Puja here. I will sing to the Goddess, the perfect woman who embodies all the women.” So I got in there and I put up the harmonium, I was just about to sing and I thought to myself, “Well…” First of all, it was so full. I don’t think I’ve ever sang to more people than the beings I felt in that barracks, empty barracks. I don’t have these kinds of experiences, but I just felt it, so I asked them, 'What should I sing to you?'..." - Krishna Das Watch the full conversation below with Bernie Glassman Bernie Glassman from 2015, full of honest, raw personal experiences from Zen Peacemakers' Bearing Witness Retreats. Includes a rare video of KD chanting in Birkenau. Krishna Das asked this into the silence of the women’s barracks in Auschwitz/Birkenau. Hear the answer that came in this video conversation between him and Bernie Glassman. They met soon after the ‪Zen Peacemakers‬ 2015 ‪Native American‬ ‪Bearing Witness‬ Retreat and shared their experiences in the ‪‎Black Hills‬, ‪South Dakota‬ and in ‪‎Auschwitz‬/Birkenau, ‪Poland‬. Included here is a rare video of KD playing in Birkenau.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. - Rumi

“A moment is not in time. A moment is infinite. Life is chock full of moments. You delve into the moment. A moment is eternal.” ~ Ram Dass

"You don’t have to create Love or Happiness, just uncover it. This is what happens over time as we find a way to live without fear, and with an open heart." - Krishna Das

Krishna Das sat down with some of our satsang over a cup of chai to answer a question of their choice.

That's me on the left, and just behind Maharaj-ji is a guy named Amletto, who I never saw again after Kainchi. Maharaj-ji is walking from his Takhat (bench) across the courtyard to his little room, which we called his "office". I got up to walk with him and he was laughing to himself, kinda shaking his head and saying, "Yeh Angrezis…(These Westerners)" I felt like a little puppy joyously following his master.