Oneness with others as well as with ethical precepts frees us from shoulds and should-nots. This enables us to become true peacemakers and not just “fixers” of discord. The Zen Peacemakers Three Tenets can help take us there.

NANCY MUJO BAKER is the founding teacher of the No Traces Sangha in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum Asanga. A Dharma successor to Bernie Glassman, she is among the first fully empowered lay Soto Zen teachers. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, where she taught for more than forty years. She lives in New York City.