Reflections
Each person is a river of life. I have found myself nourished by so many strong and beautiful rivers. These photos are moments in lives that I was honored to share in. Intimate, spontaneous, perhaps revealing.
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Mother
Father
Baby Joan
Really young
Parrot Jungle
Crossing Sahara - Timbuktu, 1969
Stanislav Grof, Joan Halifax - Esalen Institute, 1976
Joan Halifax and husband Stanislav Grof
Wedding to Stanislav Grof - Iceland, 1972
Joan Halifax, Stan Grof, Margaret Mead - Austria
Jean Erdman, Joseph Campbell, Joan Halifax - Feathered Pipe Ranch, Montana, late 1970's
Joan Halifax and Huichol artist Don Catarino - Esalen Institute, 1974
Soen Sa Nim - Ojai Foundation
Kwong Roshi with Thich Nhat Hanh - Ojai Foundation
Chakdud Tulku Rinpoche being filmed - Ojai Foundation, 1980
Joan Halifax - Ojai Foundation, 1980's
Huichol Ceremony
Guadalupe De la Cruz, Huichol artist
Don Jose Matsuwa, Huichol shaman
With Grandfather Seem
Thich Nhat Hanh, Grace Spotted Eagle, Wallace Black Elk - Ojai, 1987
With Rolling Thunder
Don Jose Matsuwa, Brant, Joan Halifax - Ojai, 1980's
With Francisco Varela
With adopted brother, Joe David, renowned NW coast carver
Mexico
Swimming with dolphins
With baby Orangutan - Borneo
Joan Halifax, Dalai Lama, Baker Roshi - the Tibet Institute in Rikon, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland in 1985
Sogyal Rinpoche, Joan Halifax, Richard Gere - Rincon, Switerland, July 30, 1985
With His Holiness the Dali Lama - Madras, India, 1986
Joan Halifax, Dalai Lama, presenting “On Death and Dying" - Madras, India, 1992
Mind and Life Institute meeting with HHDL - Dharamshala, India, 1992
Joan Halifax and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Being Ordained by Roshi Bernie Glassman and Jishu Marko - 1999
The Circle of the Way Temple at Upaya Zen Center
With Laurance Rockefeller
During Upaya house renovation: Laurence and Mary Rockefeller, Francisco Varela, others
With John and Tussi Kluge
Roshi Joan and Mayumi Oda painting Green Tara together
Sangha - Upaya Zen Center
Sangha - Upaya Zen Center
Tokudo. Roshi Joan with Shinzan Palma
Sunny Shender and Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi
Circle of the Way Temple floor - Upaya Zen Center
Kaz teaching calligraphy - Upaya
Natalie Goldberg
With Sensei Kaigetsu, a Dharma successor of Roshi Joan
With Frank Ostaseski
With Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi
With Richard Davidson, neuroscientist and Evan Thompson, philosopher
With Father John Dear
Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi
Stephen Batchelor
With Genzan Quennell
With Jane Fonda
Roshi Joan and Dominga: pretty hard leaving your best friend
With Tenzin Palmo - Upaya
Teaching with Tsoknyi Rinpoche - Upaya
Roshi Joan celebrating her birthday with Upaya residents
Kaz on my birthday!
Meal Gatha: "Earth, water, fire, air and space combined to make this food. Numberless beings gave their lives and labors that we may eat. May we be nourished, that we may nourish life."
Roshi Joan and Nannette Overley
For all of us on Earth Day: Our real work. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. (Wendell Berry)
With Wendy Johnson
Planting - Upaya Garden
Refrain from travel. Put your energy into the earth, not extract it from the earth. Learn how deep the roots of love can grow when you stop. Let yourself share the nourishment given by the earth with others. Break bread, not hearts. Upaya.
With Laurie Anderson and Ramesh - Upaya
Joy!
A wonderful mala from Quentin! What a beautiful gift on this day!
Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge
Mischa Gentry working on his hermitage - Prajna
Matt Palevsky and Roshi Joan preparing adobe - Prajna
Joab Gouveia and Roshi Joan sifting adobe - Prajna
Serving lunch at Prajna
Beginning Zazen: Forest Refuge Sesshin
Listening to Bill Debuys - Prajna
Mayumi Oda - Prajna
Listened to the wind sounds of late summer. I watched the light fall and cherish each day I can practice and serve in some small way.
Natural fireworks - Prajna, July 4, 2021
Roshi Bernie Glassman
Lake Manasoravar, Tibet
Heli with Tsoknyi Rinpoche to Nubri Samagoan
Maia, Joan Halifax, Andrea - Mount Kailash, Tibet
Upaya's Nomads Clinic - Humla, Nepal
With Kasangma - Humla, Nepal
With Khandro-la - Humla, Nepal
With His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Joan Halifax, Roshi Bernie, Kaz in background. Bearing Witness Retreat - Auschwitz, Germany, 1999
With Desmond Tutu
With HHDL
With HHDL and Richard Davidson, PhD
With Richard Gere
With Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Matthieu Ricard
With Matthieu Ricard
Roshi Joan in Upaya's Nomads Clinic - Humla, Nepal
Ottmar Liebert, Kham
Bhikshuni Dhamananda, first Thai nun
Honored at Sojiji, Japan
With Roshi Enkyo, Kaz, and abbots - at Nanzenji, Kyoto, Japan
Climate change rally with Jane Fonda - Washington DC, December 2019
With Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, PhD
Behind The Mirror: Marz
With Peter Matthiessen
Wendell Berry
Ralph Abraham
Mary Catherine Bateson
William Irwin Thompson
Wes Jackson
Jon Kabat-Zinn
With Alan Wallace
Kwong Roshi
Roshi Bernie and Ann Waldman
With Jack Kornfield
Dr. Luodro Phuntsog - Kham, Tibet
With Amy Varela
Tony Bennett doing a painting of me
Reb Zalman Schachter and Ram Dass
With Frank Ostaseski and Ram Dass
Mayumi Oda
Ram Dass at the end of the mala ceremony
Vikram Seth
Bird and Abbot Philip - Christ in the Desert
Junyu Kuroda Roshi
Brother David Steindl-Rast
With Brother David
W.S. Merwin
Wendy Johnson
Hoshi Kigaku Noah Roen
Baby Blessing for Skyla Roen
With Margaret Atwood at the Santa Fe Literary Festival, 2022
With Krishna Das - Santa Fe, NM, 2022
With Joy Harjo at the Santa Fe Literary Festival, 2022
Celebrating Seigen Chuck Overley's Continuation Day with Monshin Nannette Overley and Roshi Joan
Bernie
Jaya