Street Retreat Reflections ~ Sally Kealy

This article is part of a series of articles written about a Holy Week 2011 Street Retreat, which took place in New York City. This retreat commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the first Zen Peacemakers street retreat, also in New York.  Zen Master Bernie Glassman invited several longtime students and companions to the retreat to […]

Street Retreat Reflections ~ Andrzej Krajewski

This article is part of a series of articles written about a Holy Week 2011 Street Retreat, which took place in New York City. This retreat commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the first Zen Peacemakers street retreat, also in New York.  Zen Master Bernie Glassman invited several longtime students and companions to the retreat to […]

Street Retreat Reflection ~ Roland Wegmüller

This article is part of a series of articles written about a Holy Week 2011 Street Retreat, which took place in New York City. This retreat commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the first Zen Peacemakers street retreat, also in New York.  Zen Master Bernie Glassman invited several longtime students and companions to the retreat to […]

Street Retreat Reflection ~ Barbara Wegmüller

This article is part of a series of articles written about a Holy Week 2011 Street Retreat, which took place in New York City. This retreat commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the first Zen Peacemakers street retreat, also in New York.  Zen Master Bernie Glassman invited several longtime students and companions to the retreat to […]

Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat: Day Five

Retreat Day Five. By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  Today was quite different than the preceding three days of visiting genocide memorial sites.  This morning we visited a TIG prison farm and camp in the Bugesera district about an hour outside of Kigali.   Faced with prosecuting and imprisoning hundreds of thousands of accused genocide perpetrators, […]

Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat: Day Four

  Retreat Day Four. By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  Dignitaries and victims families laying wreaths at the graves of fallen political leaders at Rebero (above). Inspiring morning at the Closing Ceremonies of the National Week of Mourning at the Rebero Genocide Memorial, just outside of Kigali. In the early hours of the genocide on […]

Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat: Day Three

  Retreat: Day Three. By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  Genocide victims remains on display at Murambi. There are no words for Murambi.  Our group of 40 Rwandans and internationals spent the day at Murambi today.  It was a rough day for all of us, especially for the genocide survivors in our group.   Neither my […]

Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat Day Two

  Retreat Day Two. By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat: Day Two Retreat opening orientation session (above) This will be short posting.  It’s already 12:20 am and we have an early departure in the morning. We spend the morning at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, the principal genocide museum in Rwanda, […]

Second Report from Rwanda: Peacemaker Bearing Witness Retreat begins tomorow.

  Rwanda Bearing Witness: Second Report By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  Peacemaker Institute staff attended the opening ceremonies of the National Week of Commemoration and Mourning, honoring the victims and survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis.   Four Peacemaker Institute staff were seated in the VIP section just five rows behind the […]

Week One: Peacemaker Team in Rwanda

Week One: Peacemakers in Rwanda. By Acharya Fleet Shunryu Maull, Roshi.  As one would imagine, our second visit to Rwanda has been a deep plunge into not knowing and bearing witness. As I write this report, I’m acutely aware that 17 years ago the 1994 Rwandan genocide was just about to unleash 100 days of […]