Peacemaker Circle Podcast
A Conversation with Writer & Translator Bill Porter

Bill Porter, known by his pen name Red Pine, has spent decades translating classical Chinese poetry, Buddhist sutras, and Taoist writings. His work has not only preserved these ancient teachings but has also made them accessible to modern readers.
A Conversation with Writer & Translator Bill Porter/Red Pine

Join us in this enlightening episode as we sit down with renowned translator and Zen Buddhist practitioner Bill Porter, also known as Red Pine. Dive into a fascinating discussion about Bill’s unique path as a translator of ancient Chinese texts and Buddhist sutras. He reveals the intricacies of translating Chinese poetry and sutras, offering insights […]
Awareness in Poetry with John Brehm

In this video, John Brehm guides the audience through the experience of appreciating and connecting with poetry, emphasizing the importance of experiencing poems from the inside out rather than overthinking them. Poems by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, and various haikus are discussed to illustrate these concepts, with a focus on simplicity, subtle noticing, and the […]
Poetry and Non-Duality

John Brehm, author of Dharma Talk (Wisdom Publications, 2023), will explore some of the teachings around the very slippery concept of non-duality, primarily through the lens of two major Advaita teachers, Nisargadatta and Jean Klein. We’ll also read and discuss some poems that embody non-duality, poems that give us a visceral sense of how it might […]
Everything Changes; Everything is Connected; Pay Attention

A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield and Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe will be talking about the Three Tenets, the way poems carry the values of right speech in their marrow, right action in the realms of both biosphere and social compact, and compassionate attention as the ground of change.
The Art of Appreciative Attention

John Brehm, author of Dharma Talk (Wisdom Publications, 2023) proposes a new way of reading poetry, one where our primary intention is to find greater intimacy with the poem rather than greater understanding of it. Just as a person will relax and come alive when they feel truly seen, poems begin to glow in the light […]
Beloved Community

Beloved Community Into the circle of all beings we have come With sunshine and tree and raven and coyote and deer and rabbit and stars And precious moonlight. May our feet walk gently in the sands of time Echoing purpose and peace and creative caring throughout this land of dreams. Beloved community Our […]
Haiku Poetry: a Bearing Witness Practice

Our founding masters of Japanese haiku often wrote about moments of quiet wonder observed in the natural world that we still find, centuries later, delightfully transcendent. This lineage also gave us poems that were quite socially engaged – work that revealed the human experience, especially around the existence of suffering. Come explore how a bearing […]
Fury & Faith

Fury & Faith by Amanda Gorman You will be told this is not a problem, Not your problem. You will be told now is not the time For change to begin, Told that we cannot win. But the point of protest isn’t winning; It’s holding fast to the promise of freedom, Even when fast victory is not […]
Poem from Ukraine
Bitburg – September 2022 Grandma Ida sent letters and money to her family in Poland ― or was it Ukraine? Until the letters came back stamped, Undelivered. The addressees had been delivered, and the entire town disappeared. In Bitburg, last fall, her grandson paid a visit to the well festooned section of cemetery […]