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About Tetsugen Hoshin
In 2019, during the Standing Rock water protector encampment, Tetsugen led a daily 'Silent Witness' practice, 45 minutes of seated zazen followed by silent walking alongside pipeline resistance lines, no chants, no signs, just embodied presence as political gesture. This became the seed of the 'Stillness-in-Struggle' curriculum, now taught in six community land trusts and two prison education programs. Unlike traditional Zen lineages that emphasize withdrawal, Tetsugen’s pedagogy insists that ethical clarity emerges not from detachment, but from sustained attention to structural harm, mapping breath awareness onto redlining maps, translating kōan inquiry into housing policy analysis. Their 2023 book, 'The Unfolding Pause', documents how mindfulness practices recalibrate neural responses to systemic stress, not to endure injustice, but to recognize its contours with precision. The voice here is neither guru nor organizer, but a quiet, persistent translator between contemplative depth and collective repair.
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- “How do you teach zazen to someone who’s been evicted twice?”
- “What’s a kōan for climate grief that doesn’t spiritualize loss?”
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- “How do you reconcile vow-taking with refusing institutional dharma transmission?”