Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 3 of 6)

Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 6 of 6): Episode Description: Bearing witness to yourself. Bernie answers more questions on socially engaged Buddhism, and talks about his Street Retreat practice, Zen Peacemakers, and the waiting room of the Staten Island Ferry. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 5 of 6): Episode Description: That’s life! “My boss, Shakyamuni Buddha, said everything is change, but we don’t necessarily want it, so we have these expectations and out of that comes, guess what? Suffering! I do not expect that we would not have expectations ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 1 of 6): Episode Description: What’s the deal here? In the first of this six-part workshop, Bernie Glassman asks, What does spirituality bring to social engagement? And, in particular, what does the experience of Buddhism bring? by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

58 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 5 of 8): The practice of council. How do actions arise from bearing witness? Bernie fields various questions including how to practice not-knowing in the context of running an organization. He also explores at length what it means to participate in the Zen trad... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

49 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 3 of 6): Episode Description: Get out of the way. Another way to define bearing witness, Bernie says, is to get out of the way, and reminds us that zazen is a major practice for letting go. He reflects on the origins of using the phrase “bearing witness” for th... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 4 of 6): Episode Description: Hope and expectations. Bernie invites an audience member to speak about her own path of service and how to overcome the well-meaning help we get. He talks about the origins of Greyston—an experiment of social engagement on a large ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 2 of 6): Episode Description: The depth of enlightenment. Roshi Bernie answers some of the questions, ideas, thoughts, and doubts from last night’s discussion. Dissecting Kōbōdaishi’s quote, “The way you can tell the depth of a person’s enlightenment is how the... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 2 of 8): Attachment. Roshi Bernie talks about attachment in relation to meditative states and in relation to preferences and opinions. He also considers how to be in relationship with those of differing opinions, particularly family members. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 8 of 8): Honoring the interconnection of life. During the second half of the final retreat session, Roshi Bernie invites the gathered retreatants to share what they will take away from their time together. Retreatants then share thoughtfully and movingly on the... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 4 of 8): The Three Tenets of the Peacemaker Community. Roshi Bernie, with contributions from Roshi Joan Halifax, applies the practice of training in the Three Tenets of the Peacemaker Community to the current ecological crisis. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 1 of 8): Going out into the world. Roshi Bernie Glassman introduces Zen Peacemaker tenets by sharing the story of watching his daughter, son-in-law, and newborn son interact. He fields a question from an audience member at length about how to apply the experien... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2013 (Part 1 of 5): Rejoice! In this Saturday morning session, Roshi Bernie opens by answering a couple of questions posed by the audience. “What is the most important element in bringing about change?” “What should you do if you don’t know what to do?” Rejoice! by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 6 of 8): Householders and sanghas. Roshi Bernie Glassman grills the audience on what one might mean by being a “householder” or by participating in a “sangha.” He then illustrates his understanding of householders and sanghas by reflecting on his long training ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

70 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 3 of 8): Street Retreat beginnings. Roshi Bernie looks at how humans develop what he calls “clubs” and the consequences of this behavior, applying insights from his bearing witness retreats both at Auschwitz and living on the streets. During the second half, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Roshi Joan Halifax: Gate of Sweet Nectar 2015 (Part 5 of 5): Part 5: “I live my life according to experiences, not according to the commentary.” This last half of the final panel traverses: projection in student-teacher relationships; how Roshi Joan’s and Bernie’s relationship has changed over the years; whether... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2013 (Part 3 of 5): Amazing stories of forgiveness. In this Saturday afternoon session, Roshi Bernie discusses forgiveness using the Rwandan genocide as a backdrop. During a 100 day period starting in April of 1994, between 500,000 and 1,000, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2013 (Part 4 of 5): Being on the street. This session continues where the previous left off, with Roshi Bernie taking a number of questions from the participants. The first question concerns Indra’s net, which leads Bernie into a discussion on the possibility of escaping ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 7 of 8): Bearing Witness. The session begins with Roshi Joan Halifax informally reflecting on her deep affection and respect for Roshi Bernie Glassman and their long collaboration in the dharma. Roshi Bernie then shares profound teachings gleaned from his long ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2013 (Part 2 of 5): Bearing witness retreats. In this session, Roshi Bernie answers questions from the audience. Questions include: “Are there Bearing Witness Retreats in Hiroshima or Nagasaki?” “What is the status of the Lakota Retreat? by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

59 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 4 of 8): Part 4: Bearing witness retreats. Roshi Bernie describes the Zen Peacemakers Order and the approach of “Bearing Witness Retreats” with homelessness in New York and genocide at Auschwitz and in Rwanda. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Joan Halifax: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 6 of 8): Part 6: Feminism, liturgy, and clown noses. After a song led by Sensei Alan, the panel conducts a Q & A period to close out the day. Topics covered include liturgy, feminism, teacher-student relationships, clown noses, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

53 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Joan Halifax: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 7 of 8): Part 7: Q&A. The teachers complete the Q & A session. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

33 min listen

Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Joan Halifax: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 8 of 8): Part 8: “Everything is opinion.” In this last dialogue, Bernie — with a little help from Roshi Joan and Sensei Alan — fields questions about whether the view that “everything is opinion” closes or opens dialogue; about the Greyston model; about the fi... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Joan Halifax: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 1 of 8): Part 1. Nonduality. Bernie-Roshi reflects on three periods of his life, each marked by stepping beyond limited “clubs” into ever wider and less sure circles of caring engagement. He speaks of nonduality as not-knowing, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 5 of 8): Part 5: The practice of zazen. Concluding the third session of the retreat, Roshi Bernie continues his dialogue with retreatants, answering questions about the stages of “bearing witness,” telling stories from the “Bearing Witness Retreats, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 2 of 8): Part 2: Indra’s Net. After Sensei Alan Senauke opens the session with a guided meditation song, Roshi Bernie offers his opinions on “non-dual communication” on interdependence and Indra’s Net, reincarnation, koan study, the Eightfold-fold path, by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2013 (Part 5 of 5): “Have you seen The Big Lebowski?” In this final session, Bernie continues to answer questions posed by the retreat participants. One person asked: “How can one go about distributing homemade soap to the homeless without offending them? by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Engaged Buddhism, Radical Chaplaincy 2014 (Part 3 of 8): Part 3: Listening without preconception. In the second part of the session, Roshi Bernie talks about the actualization of an “Indra’s Net” connecting impoverished communities by responding to the various groups’ needs by listening without preconception... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman & Hozan Alan Senauke & Roshi Joan Halifax: Gate of Sweet Nectar 2015 (Part 4 of 5): Part 4: A song and questions. After Alan leads everyone in song, the panel takes open questions and jams. They consider: are there any restrictions on what people do with this liturgy when they leave? How does the joy in breaking boundaries dance with ... by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Gate of Sweet Nectar 2015 (Part 1 of 5): Part 1: An open-hearted overhaul. Bernie spins a lively history of the Gate of Sweet Nectar liturgy, from an early version (mythically attributed to Shakyamuni) to Menzan’s tantric innovations to his own open-hearted overhaul. by Bernie Glassman at Upaya

58 min listen

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Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 3 of 6)

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