The Bearing Witness Blog compiles the latest news of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha involved in Socially Engaged Spirituality. It willl also keep you informed on Bernie’s Journey’s to the Field which bring him to different parts of the world touched by war, poverty and genocide including relevant articles from the fields he is going to. Also included are Bernie’s teachings and opinions. We warmly invite you to join the conversation.
Originally posted by No Impact Man. No Impact Man Runs For Office…….. Please check out my article on the Atlantic Monthly’s website about my activist run for Congress and how citizen politics can help do something about climate and other problems: My unlikely course in activist politicking started with a May call from a member of the executive committee of the Green Party of New York State. The call came, I understood, because of the notoriety of my very-publicly performed 2007 experiment in extreme...
read moreZen Master Bernie Glassman is Available for Speaking Engagements and Workshops thru the Penguin Speaker’s Bureau. Please Contact: Tiffany Tomlin at tiffany.tomlin@us.penguingroup.com 212.366.2518
read moreArriving Jan 8 Pre-Order Now! Amazon, Barnes & Noble or at your local Book Seller The Dude and the Zen Master By Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman For more than a decade, Academy Award–winning actor Jeff Bridges and world-renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman have been close friends. In The Dude and the Zen Master, they offer an intimate glimpse into the conversations between a student and his teacher, a shared philosophy of life and spirituality, and the everyday wisdom of Buddhism. Inspiring, insightful, and often hilarious, The Dude...
read moreAs she listens to the rockets mortar bombs raining in her yard, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza asks the government to rethink its operation on the Gaza Strip. By Michal Vasser The first thing I want to say is: Please don’t defend me. Not like this. I am sitting in my safe room in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and listening to the bombardment of the all-out war outside. I am no longer able to distinguish between “our” bombardments and “theirs.” The truth is that the kibbutz children do this better than I do, their “musical ear” having been...
read moreOriginally posted by The Buddhdharma. No sitting US president has ever visited Burma or Cambodia……… On his first international trip since being elected to a second term, US President Barack Obama will visit Burma later this month. The White House announced Thursday that Obama would attend an international economic summit in Cambodia, then stop in Thailand and in Burma, where he’ll meet with Aung San Suu Kyi (whom he met when Suu Kyi visited the US earlier this fall) and President Thein Sein. No sitting US president has...
read moreOriginally posted by Rev. Danny Fisher “The Lady” shines her light in DC… Photo by the author. I still can’t quite believe what happened last week: I was in our nation’s capital with Amnesty International, my palJoshua Eaton, and others for a very special event with none other than Daw Aung San Suu Kyi herself! As a practitioner who has long been an admirer of “the Lady,” as well as a scholar with an abiding research interest in her, I can’t even begin to tell you how thrilled I was to see her in person —...
read moreOriginally posted by Buddhadharma The report reveals ongoing violations of religious freedom in Burma’s Chin State under…….. The Chin state. Photo courtesy CHRO. According to the Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO), Christians from the Chin ethnic minority group are being forced to convert to Buddhism in Burma. Stating that the coerced conversions are the result of state policies, the CHRO has released a 160-page report titled ” ‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in...
read moreOriginally posted by The Danny Fisher Blog. “Human Rights and Film” ???? Tom Hardy stars as international terrorist Bane in Christopher Nolan’s epic “The Dark Knight Rises.” Image via Warner Bros. Pictures. As I previously mentioned, I’ve been hosting another social media mini-course on“Human Rights and Film” at my Facebook fan page. The course is over, but I’ve put all the material from it into a post for my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. Please take a look and let us know what you think! Regular readers...
read moreOriginally posted by The Buddhadharma THE BURNING QUESTION: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-immolation? The Central Tibet Administration has released a 30-minute documentary titled The Burning Question: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-Immolation?The film focuses on the self-immolations in Tibet that started in 2009. It looks at why the self-immolation protests might be happening in the first place, despite efforts by the CTA to persuade Tibetans to not take such action. Watch below. See the video here:...
read moreOriginally posted by The Jizo Chronicles If you are considering making a shift in your professional life, starting to work for yourself or……. Posted on September 25, 2012 by Maia Duerr Occasionally I like to cross-pollinate here from my other, more stealth Buddhist blog,The Liberated Life Project. I thought that you — my Jizo peeps — might enjoy knowing that I’m offering an e-course in October through the LLP called “Fall in Love with Your Work.” This is a month-long adventure into the...
read moreThe Bearing Witness Blog compiles the latest news of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha involved in Socially Engaged Spirituality. It willl also keep you informed on Bernie’s Journey’s to the Field which bring him to different parts of the world touched by war, poverty and genocide including relevant articles from the fields he is going to. Also included are Bernie’s teachings and opinions. We warmly invite you to join the conversation.
Originally posted by No Impact Man. No Impact Man Runs For Office…….. Please check out my article on the Atlantic Monthly’s website about my activist run for Congress and how citizen politics can help do something about climate and other problems: My unlikely course in activist politicking started with a May call from a member of the executive committee of the Green Party of New York State. The call came, I understood, because of the notoriety of my very-publicly performed 2007 experiment in extreme...
read moreZen Master Bernie Glassman is Available for Speaking Engagements and Workshops thru the Penguin Speaker’s Bureau. Please Contact: Tiffany Tomlin at tiffany.tomlin@us.penguingroup.com 212.366.2518
read moreArriving Jan 8 Pre-Order Now! Amazon, Barnes & Noble or at your local Book Seller The Dude and the Zen Master By Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman For more than a decade, Academy Award–winning actor Jeff Bridges and world-renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman have been close friends. In The Dude and the Zen Master, they offer an intimate glimpse into the conversations between a student and his teacher, a shared philosophy of life and spirituality, and the everyday wisdom of Buddhism. Inspiring, insightful, and often hilarious, The Dude...
read moreAs she listens to the rockets mortar bombs raining in her yard, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza asks the government to rethink its operation on the Gaza Strip. By Michal Vasser The first thing I want to say is: Please don’t defend me. Not like this. I am sitting in my safe room in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and listening to the bombardment of the all-out war outside. I am no longer able to distinguish between “our” bombardments and “theirs.” The truth is that the kibbutz children do this better than I do, their “musical ear” having been...
read moreOriginally posted by The Buddhdharma. No sitting US president has ever visited Burma or Cambodia……… On his first international trip since being elected to a second term, US President Barack Obama will visit Burma later this month. The White House announced Thursday that Obama would attend an international economic summit in Cambodia, then stop in Thailand and in Burma, where he’ll meet with Aung San Suu Kyi (whom he met when Suu Kyi visited the US earlier this fall) and President Thein Sein. No sitting US president has...
read moreOriginally posted by Rev. Danny Fisher “The Lady” shines her light in DC… Photo by the author. I still can’t quite believe what happened last week: I was in our nation’s capital with Amnesty International, my palJoshua Eaton, and others for a very special event with none other than Daw Aung San Suu Kyi herself! As a practitioner who has long been an admirer of “the Lady,” as well as a scholar with an abiding research interest in her, I can’t even begin to tell you how thrilled I was to see her in person —...
read moreOriginally posted by Buddhadharma The report reveals ongoing violations of religious freedom in Burma’s Chin State under…….. The Chin state. Photo courtesy CHRO. According to the Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO), Christians from the Chin ethnic minority group are being forced to convert to Buddhism in Burma. Stating that the coerced conversions are the result of state policies, the CHRO has released a 160-page report titled ” ‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in...
read moreOriginally posted by The Danny Fisher Blog. “Human Rights and Film” ???? Tom Hardy stars as international terrorist Bane in Christopher Nolan’s epic “The Dark Knight Rises.” Image via Warner Bros. Pictures. As I previously mentioned, I’ve been hosting another social media mini-course on“Human Rights and Film” at my Facebook fan page. The course is over, but I’ve put all the material from it into a post for my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. Please take a look and let us know what you think! Regular readers...
read moreOriginally posted by The Buddhadharma THE BURNING QUESTION: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-immolation? The Central Tibet Administration has released a 30-minute documentary titled The Burning Question: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-Immolation?The film focuses on the self-immolations in Tibet that started in 2009. It looks at why the self-immolation protests might be happening in the first place, despite efforts by the CTA to persuade Tibetans to not take such action. Watch below. See the video here:...
read moreOriginally posted by The Jizo Chronicles If you are considering making a shift in your professional life, starting to work for yourself or……. Posted on September 25, 2012 by Maia Duerr Occasionally I like to cross-pollinate here from my other, more stealth Buddhist blog,The Liberated Life Project. I thought that you — my Jizo peeps — might enjoy knowing that I’m offering an e-course in October through the LLP called “Fall in Love with Your Work.” This is a month-long adventure into the...
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