Hula is Life, Zen is Life

Can Hula practice be Zen practice?  What is Zen practice and what is Hula practice?  Roshi June has been exploring/practicing these two disciplines for the past 30 years. They are both part of who she is. The Hawaiian cultural practice of Hula is deeply spiritual, and nature based. It tells a story about a place, a person, or an […]

Bearing Witness to the Unfolding Environmental Disaster of the 21st Century

It is evident that humanity is facing an existential threat with global warming and climate change. It is also evident that we are facing a serious biodiversity crisis – ecosystems undergoing major alterations and species threatened with extinction. Mr. Harrison will lead a discussion on these juxtaposed environmental threats, particularly from the perspective of freshwater […]

Auschwitz Retreat Q&A Session

Since Bernie Glassman, Jishu Holmes, Eve Marko, and Andrezej Krajewski began the annual Bearing Witness Retreat at the old site of the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland in 1996, the Zen Peacemakers have been returning for over twenty-five years to continue to bear witness to oneness in diversity, in the place that became a […]

The Zen of Peacemaking

For Peacemakers, what is the Zen part? The word “Zen” was transliterated through at least three languages from the Pali “jhana”, which means “meditation.” The Zen schools have also heavily emphasized mindfulness practices, without actually using the term. This interactive circle will look into the foundations of Zen and mindfulness and how they support us […]

A Pilgrimage to Rüdesheim

Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Hildegard von Bingen rund um meinen Geburtstag: 13.-15.4.2023 von Monika Winkelmann | 20. Aug 2023 | 0 Kommentare   Die Heilige Hildegard von Bingen – Erste Deutsche Dichterin und Kirchenlehrerin Vom 13.-15. April diesen Jahres reiste ich mit meiner buddhistischen Freundin und Schreibstudentin Teresa Jansen als einziger Teilnehmerin nach Rüdesheim. Eine Kleingruppe hätte ich mir vorstellen können, […]

Pearls of Ash & Awe – Readings from AschePerlen

Pearls of Ash & Awe—AschePerlen is a book that documents 20 Years of Bearing Witness in Auschwitz with Bernie Glassman & Zen Peacemakers. During this event, several of the authors will read their – or other – testimonies from the book. After reading, we will take time to share in a mindful way. You will […]

Everything is Practice

Dharma Talk 24/07/23 – Richard Warner For the Dharma talk this week I wanted to take up a phrase teacher Richard Herps used in his talk last week. If I remember correctly Roshi Cecilie asked him a good Zen question: ‘What is practice?’ to which he replied: ‘Everything is Practice’. This struck me as a […]

Introduction to the Practice of Feeding Your Demons

please join Acharya Karla Jackson-Brewer for this interactive presentation This presentation will provide an introduction to the Feeding Your Demons process, created by Lama Tsultrim Allione. Karla will provide a brief introduction to the process, and then guide members through the 5 step process that transforms obstacles (demons) into allies. For more information and further training […]

Haiku Poetry: a Bearing Witness Practice

Our founding masters of Japanese haiku often wrote about moments of quiet wonder observed in the natural world that we still find, centuries later, delightfully transcendent. This lineage also gave us poems that were quite socially engaged – work that revealed the human experience, especially around the existence of suffering. Come explore how a bearing […]