von rupert | Sep 4, 2021 | poem
A prayer by Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao A Buddhist Prayer A 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...
von rupert | Sep 4, 2021 | poem
A poem by Thich Nhat Hanh The 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...
von rupert | Aug 11, 2021 | poem, voices from other bearing witness retreats
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...
von rupert | Aug 3, 2021 | poem
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 black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean -the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one...
von rupert | Jul 28, 2021 | poem, voices from other bearing witness retreats
My Pearls of Ash and Awe: Matzes of Humanity. Fragments of Life I wrote these lines after my first Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz Birkenau with the Zen Peacemakers in 2014. It was published a year later in the book „Pearls of Ash and Awe“. The book...
