Spotlight: Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy taught, inspired, and encouraged thousands through her "Work that Reconnects", a culmination of the foundations in her teaching and the fountain of collaborative creativity across Macy’s lifetime.

Discover ten books by, about, or including Joanna Macy.

Recent Reader Guides

Radical Friendship As a Practice of Liberation Graphic with Drawn Hands

Radical Friendship as a Practice of Liberation

For many of us, friendship is the soft place we land when the world is hard. For Kate Johnson, friendship is also a spiritual discipline and a technology, one that can help us survive an unjust world and transform it.

In Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World, author Kate Johnson—a Black Buddhist teacher and activist—draws from early Buddhist teachings, Black feminist thought, and her own lived experience to state that how we love each other is interwoven into how we pursue justice. Her work asks a powerful question: what does liberation look like in everyday life, between actual people, right now?

Recent Videos

Zen Master Shundo Aoyama

We paid a visit to Zen Master Shundo Aoyama at her nunnery in Nagoya, Japan, and she shared with us some words that capture the essence of her book, Zen Seeds: 60 Essential Buddhist Teachings on Effort, Gratitude, and Happiness.

Shambhala Author Events

The Zen Way of Recovery: An All -Day Retreat/In person/Green Gulch Farm, CA

The Zen Way of Recovery: An All -Day Retreat/In person/Green Gulch Farm, CA

Sunday, March 1, 2026/10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time | Green Gulch Farm Zen Center/Hiwy1/Marin, CA

Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa, Recommended Meditations | Charles Manson | Online & The Buddhist Society

Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa, Recommended Meditations | Charles Manson | Online & The Buddhist Society

March 4th, 2026 | 18.30 GMT (19.30 CET ; 1.30 PM EST) | The Buddhist Society, London (founded 1924)

Releasing the Knot of the Mind: Instructions on Resting in Stillness & Awareness

Releasing the Knot of the Mind: Instructions on Resting in Stillness & Awareness

March 6: Friday Night Public Talk (optional) 7:00–approximately 9:00 MST pm, March 7–8: Weekend Retreat, 10:00-- 5:00 MST | Boulder Shambhala Center

Diamond Approach Book Talk | The Inner Beloved

Diamond Approach Book Talk | The Inner Beloved

Friday, March 13, 2026 | 6:30 p.m. PT (online & in-person) | Berkeley Center