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For Native American Bearing Witness Retreat This retreat will focus on the American Indian genocide, oppression and neglect that began at the end of the fifteenth century and continues to this day. A defining event of this era is the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on December 29, 1890. Although hundreds of Native American tribes have […]
The Wounding of the Native American Soul
In the early ’80s, a Lakota professor of social work named Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart coined the phrase “historical trauma.” What she meant was “the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations.” Another phrase she used was “soul wound.” The wounding of the Native American soul, of course, went on […]
The Sand Creek Massacre by Ned Blackhawk
MANY people think of the Civil War and America’s Indian wars as distinct subjects, one following the other. But those who study the Sand Creek Massacre know different. On Nov. 29, 1864, as Union armies fought through Virginia and Georgia, Col. John Chivington led some 700 cavalry troops in an unprovoked attack on peaceful Cheyenne and […]
Rocky and Tootsie – Live!, Forgetting to Forget
Just Posted New Edition of Rocky and Tootsie – Live!, Forgetting to Forget, Hear it at http://zenpeacemakers.wpengine.com/rocky-and-tootsie-live/
Facing the Ultimate Challenge by Bernie Glassman
MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. “The theme of an Auschwitz retreat is not the Holocaust,” Glassman asserts. “It’s ‘How do we deal with each other?’” Bernie Glassman interview with Lion’s Roar magazine, on the purpose of Bearing Witness retreats.
June Ryushin Kaililani Tanoue Dharma Transmission by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
I am pleased to announce that I gave Dharma transmission to June Ryushin Kaililani Tanoue on October 11, 2014. She received full empowerment as a Zen Priest in a Denkai ceremony and full empowerment as a Zen teacher (Sensei) in Shisho ceremony. These were witnessed by Bernie Glassman Roshi, Eve Marko Roshi, Susan Anderson Roshi, […]
What’s Love Got to Do With It? by Roshi Eve Marko
Eve’s Remarks on Bernie’s 1st 20 Years of his 60 Year Journey in Zen: Zendo Practice So what we plan to do this afternoon is that I took some notes on Bernie’s talk, and I will try to kind of uncover from my experience some of the issues that he related to, and what you also […]
Radical Descent: The Cultivation of an American Revolutionary by Linda Coleman
“A rare first-hand account by an active participant in the radical underground movements … distinguished by the courage and painful honesty so critical in a memoir of this kind.” – Peter Matthiessen In her debut memoir, Coleman reveals an intimate account of her choice to join a revolutionary underground guerrilla cell in the 1970’s. This turbulent […]
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.”
