Tom Kets is an actor, writer and teacher. He makes theater and art projects for children as the business and artistic director of ‘Huis Binnenweg’. December last year he visited the Open Group Palliative Care of the Zen Peacemakers Lage Landen in Belgium for the first time. During this intensive meetings, there is always space […]
A short impression. On November 19 and 20, the first Zen Peacemakers workshop took place in London. The theme was The Three Tenets and Art. Frank De Waele roshi led the workshop. Julian Marshall, Damian Dudkiewicz and Tom Radcliffe showed us how to work with art in social action. Reflections from Jo Clarke: “I […]
COUNCIL is a modern practice derived from many ancient forms of coming together and communicating in a circle. Council is an important core practice at all Bearing Witness Retreats. The practice of deep listening without judgment fosters an atmosphere of respect for one’s self and for others and promotes empathy, dissolving barriers to cooperation, understanding, […]
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. After graduating from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he went to work for McDonnell-Douglas in California in 1960 as an aeronautical engineer, concentrating on interplanetary flights. He […]
The foundation of the Gate of Sweet Nectar ceremony is based on Ananda’s deep connection with his mother, and his great suffering in relation to her trials in her afterlife. Ananda, according to lore, then went to the Buddha to see if there was anything he could do to help his mother. The Gate of […]
Zen Peacemakers community seeks to bear witness to the joy and suffering of the universe, and to realize and actualize the oneness and interdependence of life through study, practice and action for personal and social transformation. We are committed to nonviolence, inclusivity, free expression and experimentation. Entering the stream of Socially Engaged Spirituality we commit […]
The mission of Zen Peacemakers is to create a community of peacemakers enacting a vision of peace through the practice of meditation, the Rule of the Zen Peacemaker Order and social action, and to nurture an environment for the realization and actualization of peacemaking as a path of awakening. We seek to connect, train and […]
The Zen Peacemakers Order (ZPO) is an international spirituality and social action network. In 1994, after a Street Retreat in Washington D.C., the name was adopted by the Zen Peacemakers, a socially engaged community that grew up around the American Zen master Bernie Glassman since the 1980s. Today the Zen Peacemakers Order is a virtual […]
Switzerland Spiegel Spiegel Sangha Spiritual Directors: Roshi Barbara Salaam Wegmüller and Sensei Roland Yakushi Wegmüller Member Type: Zen Group Contact Person: Roshi Barbara Salaam Wegmüller Social Engagement: Contemplative Care, Immigration, Refugee Work, Women’s Issues,
Belgium Gent Zen Sangha Spiritual Director: Roshi Frank De Waele Member Type: Zen Center Contact Person: Roshi Frank De Waele Social Engagement: Bearing Witness Retreats, Contemplative Care, Interfaith Virtual Zen Peacemakers Lage Landen Spiritual Director: Roshi Frank De Waele and Sensei Irène Kaigetsu Bakker Member Type: Virtual Contact Person: Petra Zenryū Hubbeling Social […]