Retracing the Path of Bullets
A Report from a Seventeen-day Pilgrimage in Sweden, Bearing Witness to the Effects of the Arms Industry on Communities, Veterans, Refugees and Caregivers. By Pake Hall, ZPO Member (Top photo by Lennart Kjörling. All other photos by Pake Hall) SWEDEN. During the summer of 2015, forty individuals undertook a pilgrimage from Gothenburg harbor to the […]
Diversity Fundraiser, Auschwitz 2016
Celebration of diversity has been a hallmark of the Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreats and in particular in Auschwitz-Birkenau, once a symbol of extreme intolerance towards others. Through the years the Zen Peacemakers hosted there countless nationalities, faith and ethnicities. In 2015, our large community collected donations to bring Lakota Native Americans, Croats, Bosniaks & […]
Resonance is Everywhere
By Roshi Eve Myonen Marko Photo of Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance (left) by Peter Cunningham Originally appeared on Eve’s blog on 7/6/2016 The Facebook page for the Bearing Witness visit to Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota during the last week of this month has been closed, made accessible only to those people […]
Orlando and The Call of Connection
Hello, my name is Rami Efal. I have recently entered the role of executive director of the Zen Peacemakers, Inc., founded by Roshi Bernie Glassman and the container for his teachings, the ZP Bearing Witness retreats and the Zen Peacemaker Order — an international community of spiritual practitioners and social activists based on the ZP’s Three Tenets: Not-knowing, […]
Passover in Piraeus: A Zen Peacemaker’s Plunge with Refugees
A series of 6 reports written during the Not-Knowing Pilgrimage in the refugee camp in Piraeus, Greece, the home of thousands dislocated people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Coming Back to Ourselves: Notes on a Council Training Workshop in the Balkans
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. Jared Seide of Center for Council reports on a council training workshop in Bosnia-Herzegovina.