Making Peace: The World as One Body (part three)

„Bernie Glassman: 8-4-2012: Making Peace: The World as One Body (Part 3)“ from Dharma Podcast by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot. Released: 2012. Track 671. Genre: Buddhism.

Making Peace: The World as One Body (part two)

„Bernie Glassman: 8-4-2012: Making Peace: The World as One Body (Part 2)“ from Dharma Podcast by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot. Released: 2012. Track 670. Genre: Buddhism.

Making Peace: The World as One Body (part one)

„Bernie Glassman: 8-4-2012: Making Peace: The World as One Body (Part 1)“ from Dharma Podcast by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot. Released: 2012. Track 669. Genre: Buddhism.

Japan, the Beautiful and Myself

Yasunari Kawabata “In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo. In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold.” “The winter moon comes from the clouds to keep me company. The wind is piercing, the snow is cold.” The first of these poems is by the priest Dogen (1200-1253) and bears […]

Prayers on the Plum Tree: Sensei Engu Dobbs’s Reflection on the Zen Peacemakers Native American Plunge August 2017

SOUTH DAKOTA, USA. Each day we sat in a large circle and began and ended our meetings by smudging with sage smoke, offering tobacco, and listening to Lakota songs and prayers. Listening deeply and bearing witness to the grief of others tends to be hard, hard practice…But if we’re able, more or less, to stay with the grief…The result is often a powerful and surprising feeling of joy.

No Pretension, Much Humor: Bernie’s Visit to Vassar College, April 2017

POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK STATE, USA. „Not once in his speech did Roshi Glassman use words like ‚consciousness,‘ ‚freedom,‘ or even ‚enlightenment,’…What he spoke repeatedly of was ‚taking action'“ — Rick Jarow​, Professor of Religion/Asian Studies and Chairman of the Carolyn Grant Endowment Committee at Vassar College, hosted Bernie Glassman​ and reflects on his visit on campus.