ARANA, Sanskrit word meaning "A Place of Peaceful Abiding".

Sangha Arana is an affiliate Zen community of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM. We are guided by Roshi Joan Halifax and inspired by the teachings of Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Our mission is living the bodhisattva ideal of the liberation of all beings from suffering and liberating ourselves from fear and illusions.

"The Bodhisattva sees the interdependent nature of all things, sees in one dharma all dharmas, sees in all dharmas one dharma, sees the multiplicity in the one and the one in the multiplicity, sees the one in the immeasurable and the immeasurable in the one. Birth and existence of all dharmas is of a changing nature and thus unreal and cannot touch the enlightened ones." Avatamsaka Sutra, from TNH, The Sun My Heart