Bearing Witness Blog
Bearing Witness Blog
When we bear witness, when we become the situation – homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death –
the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do. We don’t have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
Bernie Glassman
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Lampedusa
Lampedusa - pictures and reflections by Ruud Baanders My experience of the bearing witness retreat on Lampedusa in 2016 was in many ways a...
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...
Bearing Witness – a reflection by Evi Gemmon Ketterer
Bearing Witness “I, Gemmon, practice to devote myself to not-knowing. I will practice to open myself to the insight, that the ungraspable...
A summer day
A poem by Mary Oliver The poem is like a reminder of bearing witness to life.A summer day Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the...
Matzes of Humanity. Fragments of Life
My Pearls of Ash and Awe: Matzes of Humanity. Fragments of Life I wrote these lines after my first Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz...