For more than fifteen years, Ven. Dario Doshin Girolami has walked into Rebibbia, Rome’s largest prison, and sat down to meditate with the people inside. His was the first Buddhist meditation course held in an Italian prison, and it was out of that work that the Сеть капелланов ЕВС grew — the network he founded and still guides.
This October, that experience becomes a course open to everyone. Over four Saturdays, hosted online by the San Francisco Zen Center, Dario will weave the stories of the people he has practised with behind bars together with the teachings of Dōgen and Suzuki Roshi — and put a quiet question to everyone listening: what if the most confining prisons are the ones our own minds keep building?
The Inner Prison, Koans and Freedom
- When: four Saturdays — 10, 17, 24 and 31 October 2026
- Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST. Please note that on 31 October the session runs 17:00–18:30 CET, as Europe changes its clocks a week before the United States.
- Where: online via Zoom. All sessions are recorded and made available to participants.
- Contribution: a sliding scale from $42 to $210, so that cost need not stand in the way.
- Teacher: Ven. Dario Doshin Girolami, Zen priest, founder and chair of the EBU Chaplaincy Network.
If you know someone in your sangha working in chaplaincy — in prisons, hospitals or hospices — this is worth passing on.