von rupert | Feb 28, 2023 | voices from other bearing witness retreats
Bearing Witness Eco Retreat 2022 by Svenja Shinsen Wildflower Hollweg As 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...
von rupert | Dez 2, 2021 | voices from other bearing witness retreats
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...
von rupert | Sep 4, 2021 | voices from other bearing witness retreats
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...
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 9, 2021 | voices from other bearing witness retreats
Bearing Witness “I, Gemmon, practice to devote myself to not-knowing. I will practice to open myself to the insight, that the ungraspable life is always more than the power of my eye of study and practice can see.I practice to devote myself to bearing witness....
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...
