Roshi Malgosia Braunek’s Last Dharma Talk

Translated from Polish by Andrzej Krajewski Master Shizan answered a student, that not-knowing is most intimate. For over a year this most intimate practice has been with me during every moment. I don’t have to try to remember it, anymore. True, in the beginning there was struggle and sometimes a sincere rebellion when everything has been […]

A Story of Karma

MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. Bernie Glassman interview on Karma. “I only have ‘now’ in which to become ‘at-one’ with all these hungry ghosts, all these people who are none other than myself, I let go of guilt, blame, and anger. I let go of fear and paralysis, and I take loving action.”

The Nonviolent Life

A New Book by John Dear To Order, visit www.paceebene.org Or call: 510-268-8765. “How can we become people of nonviolence and help the world become more nonviolent? What does it mean to be a person of active nonviolence? How can we help build a global grassroots movement of nonviolence to disarm the world, relieve unjust human […]

Upcoming September trip to Rwanda

At the invitation of the Zen Peacemaker Order, Center for Council has been working with NGOs in Rwanda to develop their capacity to facilitate council circles at a number of villages in-country and, now, inspired by our work in California, inside several prisons, where perpetrators of violence during the Genocide Against the Tutsis are being […]

On Clown, Zen and Spontaneity

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA. “What struck me…was how the stillness of meditation adds to the vitality of our spontaneity, and opens our capacity to improvise. Although these two qualities may seem like opposites, when one looks through the right lens, it makes total sense.”