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How do we live a life of meaning? How do we live with fear, but not be oppressed by fear? How do we live as human beings in all our depth, fullness, and differences, and make of our individual lives an offering—the Supreme Meal—to help everyone?
Roshi Bernie Glassman, Founder of the Zen Peacemakers, and Roshi Eve Myonen Marko will address these questions on June — , 2013, using a talk format as well as questions and answers, and focusing on the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers: Not-knowing, Bearing Witness, andLoving Action.
Not-knowing, Bearing Witness, Loving Action. These are the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers. On June – Roshi Bernie Glassman, Founder of the Zen Peacemakers, and Roshi Eve Myonen Marko will explore the practice of these Three Tenets in their own lives and in the lives of workshop participants. Together we will examine how the practice of meditation and plunges like Auschwitz, Rwanda, and the streets help us see ourselves as Other and Other as ourselves. We will look at the challenges of Zen practice in the daily lives of lay practitioners with families and careers, and how we use these precious lives to fulfill the vow of the Bodhisattva, the mensch, to free and serve all beings.
Social entrepreneur, activist, businessman, and Zen master, Bernie Glassman is a renowned teacher of social action as Buddhist practice. His wife, Eve Myonen Marko, is a writer, teacher, and activist. Together, the two continue to bear witness to life in all its aspects and colors, and invite everyone to play with them in the infinite fields of the Pure Land.
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How do we live a life of meaning? How do we live with fear, but not be oppressed by fear? How do we live as human beings in all our depth, fullness, and differences, and make of our individual lives an offering—the Supreme Meal—to help everyone?
Not-knowing, Bearing Witness, Loving Action. These are the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers. On June – Roshi Bernie Glassman, Founder of the Zen Peacemakers, and Roshi Eve Myonen Marko will explore the practice of these Three Tenets in their own lives and in the lives of workshop participants. Together we will examine how the practice of meditation and plunges like Auschwitz, Rwanda, and the streets help us see ourselves as Other and Other as ourselves. We will look at the challenges of Zen practice in the daily lives of lay practitioners with families and careers, and how we use these precious lives to fulfill the vow of the Bodhisattva, the mensch, to free and serve all beings.
Social entrepreneur, activist, businessman, and Zen master, Bernie Glassman is a renowned teacher of social action as Buddhist practice. His wife, Eve Myonen Marko, is a writer, teacher, and activist. Together, the two continue to bear witness to life in all its aspects and colors, and invite everyone to play with them in the infinite fields of the Pure Land.
With talks that are equal parts touching and humorous, Bernie Glassman’s workshop will inspire you to live a life that matters by bearing witness to the wholeness of human experience. Bernie communicates decades of experience in down-to-earth language that connects with people of all backgrounds. As he teaches us to “make the best meal using the ingredients available,” he often includes the ingredients of each workshop: the participants. Starting with the questions of each particular crowd, he crafts a presentation unique to each group. Bernie will ruffle your feathers and send you off ready to take action to create a more compassionate world.
Bernie’s shares insights from:
Contact Sweetwater Zen Center to register for this workshop.
With talks that are equal parts touching and humorous, Bernie Glassman’s workshop will inspire you to live a life that matters by bearing witness to the wholeness of human experience. Bernie communicates decades of experience in down-to-earth language that connects with people of all backgrounds. As he teaches us to “make the best meal using the ingredients available,” he often includes the ingredients of each workshop: the participants. Starting with the questions of each particular crowd, he crafts a presentation unique to each group. Bernie will ruffle your feathers and send you off ready to take action to create a more compassionate world.
Bernie’s shares insights from:
Contact ZCLA to register for this workshop.
The founder of the Zen Peacemakers, Zen Master Bernie Glassman, evolved from a traditional Zen Buddhist monastery-model practice to become a leading proponent of social engagement as spiritual practice. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer of Buddhism in the West and as a founder of Socially Engaged Buddhism and spiritually based Social Enterprise. He has proven to be one of the most creative forces in Western Buddhism, creating new paths, practices, liturgy and organizations to serve the people who fall between the cracks of society. In this workshop Bernie will trace his evolution from the dharma hall to blighted urban streets. He will share the practices and principles he has developed to teach service as spiritual practice and to create sustainable, major service projects, such as the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, NY. He will share the insights, revelations, personalities and personal experiences that have influenced his life and development. He will present some of his innovations, such as Bearing Witness Retreats, living on urban streets and gathering for a week at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He will talk about the future of socially engaged spiritual practice.
With talks that are equal parts touching and humorous, Bernie Glassman’s workshop will inspire you to live a life that matters by bearing witness to the wholeness of human experience. Bernie communicates decades of experience in down-to-earth language that connects with people of all backgrounds. As he teaches us to “make the best meal using the ingredients available,” he often includes the ingredients of each workshop: the participants. Starting with the questions of each particular crowd, he crafts a presentation unique to each group. Bernie will ruffle your feathers and send you off ready to take action to create a more compassionate world.
Bernie’s shares insights from:
Contact Great Mountain Zen Center to register for this talk and workshop.
With talks that are equal parts touching and humorous, Bernie Glassman’s workshop will inspire you to live a life that matters by bearing witness to the wholeness of human experience. Bernie communicates decades of experience in down-to-earth language that connects with people of all backgrounds. As he teaches us to “make the best meal using the ingredients available,” he often includes the ingredients of each workshop: the participants. Starting with the questions of each particular crowd, he crafts a presentation unique to each group. Bernie will ruffle your feathers and send you off ready to take action to create a more compassionate world.
Bernie’s shares insights from:
Contact Zen Community of Staten Island to register for this workshop.
Most of each day is spent sitting by the train tracks at Birkenau, both in silence and in chanting the names of the dead. There is time to walk through the vast camps, do vigils inside womens and childrens barracks, and memorial services. Prayer Services from various religious traditions are offered daily. Participants meet daily in small Council groups designed to create a safe place for people to share their inner experiences. The whole group meets in the evenings to bear witness to oneness in diversity. Although Auschwitz, the Place, is the main Teacher for this retreat, experienced Spirit Holders meet, with Bernie Glassman, each day to reflect on the retreat flow, schedule, events and make appropriate modifications if necessary…….read more
April 6, 1994 marked the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, in which Rwandan Hutus killed over 1 million Rwandan Tutsis over a period of 100 days, at an average rate of over 10,000 people a day.
Twenty years later, in April 2014, Zen Masters Bernie Glassman and Grover Genro Gauntt will go to Rwanda to bear witness to that genocide. You are invited to join them for this Bearing Witness Retreat, sponsored by the Rwandan organization, Memos: Learning From History, the Hudson River Peacemaker Center and the Zen Peacemakers…….read more
With talks that are equal parts touching and humorous, Bernie Glassman’s workshop will inspire you to live a life that matters by bearing witness to the wholeness of human experience. Bernie communicates decades of experience in down-to-earth language that connects with people of all backgrounds. As he teaches us to “make the best meal using the ingredients available,” he often includes the ingredients of each workshop: the participants. Starting with the questions of each particular crowd, he crafts a presentation unique to each group. Bernie will ruffle your feathers and send you off ready to take action to create a more compassionate world.
Bernie’s shares insights from:
Contact ZCLA to register for this workshop.
Most of each day is spent sitting by the train tracks at Birkenau, both in silence and in chanting the names of the dead. There is time to walk through the vast camps, do vigils inside womens and childrens barracks, and memorial services. Prayer Services from various religious traditions are offered daily. Participants meet daily in small Council groups designed to create a safe place for people to share their inner experiences. The whole group meets in the evenings to bear witness to oneness in diversity. Although Auschwitz, the Place, is the main Teacher for this retreat, experienced Spirit Holders meet, with Bernie Glassman, each day to reflect on the retreat flow, schedule, events and make appropriate modifications if necessary.
Most of each day is spent sitting by the train tracks at Birkenau, both in silence and in chanting the names of the dead. There is time to walk through the vast camps, do vigils inside womens and childrens barracks, and memorial services. Prayer Services from various religious traditions are offered daily. Participants meet daily in small Council groups designed to create a safe place for people to share their inner experiences. The whole group meets in the evenings to bear witness to oneness in diversity. Although Auschwitz, the Place, is the main Teacher for this retreat, experienced Spirit Holders meet, with Bernie Glassman, each day to reflect on the retreat flow, schedule, events and make appropriate modifications if necessary.
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Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat in Nov 2013
Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peace Makers are returning for the 18th year to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, in Poland.
Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat in Apr 2014
For the twentieth anniversary of the Genocide, Bernie Glassman and Grover Genro Gauntt will go to Rwanda to bear witness to that genocide. You are invited to join them for this Retreat, sponsored by the Rwandan organization, Memos: Learning From History, the Hudson River Peacemaker Center and the Zen Peacemakers.