Roshi Glassman, Zen Peacemakers Join Chief Looking Horse’s Prayer for Standing Rock
Sage from Cheyenne River reservation burned today at Zen Peacemakers offices. MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. Lakota spiritual leader Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th holder of the sacred white calf woman pipe who has led in Standing Rock and has met with Zen Peacemakers last summer, requested spiritual leaders around the world to join him in […]
“If You Ask For Help, You Get Help” – A Zen Peacemaker’s Report from Standing Rock
By Sensei Michel Engu Dobbs, Zen Peacemaker Order STANDING ROCK, SOUTH DAKOTA. About an hour after going into a ditch in a white-out blizzard as we headed out of Oceti Sakowin camp and back to Bismarck, I began to look over at my friend Grover and wonder what the best way to cook a Zen […]
When An Elder Speaks: Impressions from Standing Rock
In September 2016, Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders, abbot of Sweetwater Zen Center, San Diego USA and member of the Zen Peacemaker Order, visited Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Turtle Island (USA), the location of the ongoing historic stand taken by many nations of Native Americans in response to construction of pipeline on reservation land. This is her […]
Standing People, Rooted People: Peacemaking Among the Indigenous Cultures of Southern Africa and Turtle Island
Drawing experiences from different corners of the world, two ZPO members, one from the United States, Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt and one from Finland, Mikko Ijäs, share their stories of being welcomed by #FirstNations and the #indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (Northern America) and Southern Africa and how their appreciation of #peacemaking was affected by encountering these rich wisdom cultures and the individuals that embodied them.
Grieving and Praising Together: Lakota Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Roshi Eve Marko on Mystery and Caring for all Relations
Roshi Eve Marko reflects on the wisdom and teachings of Lakota Tiokasin Ghosthorse in relation to Standing Rock, honoring Mother Earth, and the profound mystery of life. Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a Lakota Sundancer from Cheyenne River Reservation; he hosts First Voices Radio, a program that appears on some 70 local public radio stations in this country, and travels all over the world presenting Native consciousness and values.
Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee
Peace offerings of tobacco ties adorn the fence at the Wounded Knee Memorial on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on Oct. 20, 2014. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) By Dana Hedgpeth July 17, 2022 Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain during the 1890 […]
Wat we doen
Wat we doen Sommigen van ons werken met immigranten uit Afrika en het Midden-Oosten in het VK, Zwitserland en Duitsland, en hebben geholpen in vluchtelingenkampen in Griekenland. Sommigen van ons steunen de inspanningen van Lakota-oudsten om hun taal en cultuur nieuw leven in te blazen en stonden met hen bij Standing Rock om de Dakota-pijpleiding […]
Native American Bearing Getuigenis Retreat
Native American-Zen VredestichtersGetuigenisretraite Native American-Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreat 2023 Wolakota Makasintomni AwachekiyapiBidden voor heilige harmonieen wereldwijde vrede Medicine Wheel in de Bighorn Mts. van Wyoming en op de plaats van de Rosebud Battlefield in MontanaZondag 9 juli tot en met zaterdag 15 juli 2023. REGISTRATIE IS NU GESLOTEN Registreer hier Zen Peacemakers organiseert sinds […]
A Gift of Not Knowing
Peter Pierson, a writer and a participant in the Native American Bearing Witness Plunge in 2019, offers us a reflective writing piece that shares a bit about how the practice of “Not Know” remained with him throughout his return home, long after the retreat had come to an end.
2019 Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Programs Impact Report
The Auschwitz-Birkenau retreat is the core program of ZPI’s Bearing Witness programs. What follows is this year’s impact report on the 23rd Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz.