Like many Dharmic traditions, Zen Buddhism stresses the importance of lineage based on the one-on-one relationship and direct transmission and succession from teacher to student. Successors of one teacher share commonalities and form a community. Bernie and the other successors of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, or Bernie’s “Dharma brothers and sisters” formed the White...
Learn MoreGuys Choice gives out Awards in various categories at their Annual Event in Los Angeles. This year the Outstanding Literary Achievement Award went to The Dude and the Zen Master. In their words, “We blazed through these books and we think you will too. But was it the Dude or Willie who dropped more ounces of enlightenment through their Outstanding Literary...
Learn MoreSensei Al Genkai Kaszniak serves as spiritual director of Upaya Sangha of Tucson, an affiliate sangha of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM. He received both Jukai and dharma transmission from Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., and he presently also serves as President of the Board of Directors of Upaya Zen Center. The Upaya Sangha of Tucson (AZ) is a lay Zen Buddhist practice...
Learn MoreVen. Dr. Pannavati, a former Christian pastor, is co-founder and co-Abbot of Embracing-Simplicity Hermitage in Hendersonville NC. An African-American, female Buddhist monk ordained in the Theravada and Mahayana traditions and with Vajrayana empowerments and transmission from Roshi Bernie Glassman of Zen Peacemakers, she is both contemplative and empowered for...
Learn MoreRoshi Anne Seisen Saunders has been voted in as the President of the White Plum Asanga during its annual meeting in May 2013. She replaces Roshi Gerry Shishin Wick, the 3rd President, who served in that role for 6 years. Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders is the founder and head teacher of Sweetwater Zen Center. She has been practicing and teaching Zen Buddhism for over 30 years....
Learn MoreRoshi Eve Myonen Marko and I (Bernie Glassman) have started a Koan System based on the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers. We will probably wind up with two different sets of koans (hers and his) and I have posted my initial thoughts on this koan system. The Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers Entering the stream of Socially Engaged Spirituality, I vow to live a...
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