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Text Bayo Akomolafe

Text for the next Eco-Study Group online Friday, April 28 from 4pm to 6pm - Deutsch bitte unten lesen Question: Looking at the current climate situation and the world we live in - how does this text by Bayo Akomolafe resonate with you? "Think about...

Ecoretreat 2022

Bearing Witness Eco Retreat 2022 by Svenja Shinsen Wildflower HollwegAs it is already designed by the writer, we leave this as a PDF. Article as a PDF file in English (opens in new window). Article as a PDF file in German (opens in new window).

Frank De Waele Roshi

Frank De Waele Roshi Frank De Waele Roshi, as Dharma successor of Genno Pagès Roshi as well as Bernie Glassman Roshi, is a certified Zen master in the Soto Zen tradition.Frank Roshi lives in Ghent at the Zen Sangha zendo, where he works full-time as a Zen...

Ruanda

Bearing Witness Retreat Ruanda by Reiner Seido HühnerAs it is already designed by the writer, we leave this as a PDF. Its written in German.Article as a PDF file (opens in new window).

Bearing Witness Retreat in Bosnia Herzegovina

Bearing Witness Retreat in Bosnia Herzegovina by Mikko Ijas The Bosnian retreat organized by the Zen Peacemakers Europe was a very different kind of a retreat compared to the previous retreats organized by the Zen Peacemakers International, like the ones in...

Bernie Glassman

Bernie Glassman - the founder of the Bearing Witness Retreats and the Zen Peacemakers Bernie Glassman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1939. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and he grew up in a Jewish family with a strong socialist orientation....

A Blessing for The Journey

A prayer by Roshi Wendy Egyoku NakaoA Buddhist PrayerA Blessing for The Journey Let us vow to bear witness to the wholeness of life,realizing the completeness of each and every thing.Embracing our differences,I shall know myself as you,and you as myself.May we serve...

Please Call Me by My True Names

A poem by Thich Nhat HanhThe poem perfectly reflects the spirit of bearing witness.Please Call Me By My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny...

Lampedusa

Lampedusa - pictures and reflections by Ruud Baanders My experience of the bearing witness retreat on Lampedusa in 2016 was in many ways a turning point in my life. The direct contact with the concrete evidence of the mass suffering of people fleeing their...

Auschwitz – a Place of Cruelty and Hope

Auschwitz - a Place of Cruelty and Hope Evi Gemmon Ketterer wrote these lines after her Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz Birkenau with the Zen Peacemakers in 2013. It was published later in the book „Pearls of Ash and Awe“. The book includes some...

Latest blog posts

Text Bayo Akomolafe

Text for the next Eco-Study Group online Friday, April 28 from 4pm to 6pm - Deutsch bitte unten lesen Question: Looking at the current climate situation and the world we live in - how does this text by Bayo Akomolafe resonate with you? "Think about...

Ecoretreat 2022

Bearing Witness Eco Retreat 2022 by Svenja Shinsen Wildflower HollwegAs it is already designed by the writer, we leave this as a PDF. Article as a PDF file in English (opens in new window). Article as a PDF file in German (opens in new window).

Frank De Waele Roshi

Frank De Waele Roshi Frank De Waele Roshi, as Dharma successor of Genno Pagès Roshi as well as Bernie Glassman Roshi, is a certified Zen master in the Soto Zen tradition.Frank Roshi lives in Ghent at the Zen Sangha zendo, where he works full-time as a Zen...

Ruanda

Bearing Witness Retreat Ruanda by Reiner Seido HühnerAs it is already designed by the writer, we leave this as a PDF. Its written in German.Article as a PDF file (opens in new window).

Bearing Witness Retreat in Bosnia Herzegovina

Bearing Witness Retreat in Bosnia Herzegovina by Mikko Ijas The Bosnian retreat organized by the Zen Peacemakers Europe was a very different kind of a retreat compared to the previous retreats organized by the Zen Peacemakers International, like the ones in...

Bernie Glassman

Bernie Glassman - the founder of the Bearing Witness Retreats and the Zen Peacemakers Bernie Glassman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1939. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and he grew up in a Jewish family with a strong socialist orientation....

A Blessing for The Journey

A prayer by Roshi Wendy Egyoku NakaoA Buddhist PrayerA Blessing for The Journey Let us vow to bear witness to the wholeness of life,realizing the completeness of each and every thing.Embracing our differences,I shall know myself as you,and you as myself.May we serve...

Please Call Me by My True Names

A poem by Thich Nhat HanhThe poem perfectly reflects the spirit of bearing witness.Please Call Me By My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny...

Lampedusa

Lampedusa - pictures and reflections by Ruud Baanders My experience of the bearing witness retreat on Lampedusa in 2016 was in many ways a turning point in my life. The direct contact with the concrete evidence of the mass suffering of people fleeing their...

Auschwitz – a Place of Cruelty and Hope

Auschwitz - a Place of Cruelty and Hope Evi Gemmon Ketterer wrote these lines after her Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz Birkenau with the Zen Peacemakers in 2013. It was published later in the book „Pearls of Ash and Awe“. The book includes some...

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+49-159 04 557 226
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