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@zenpeacemakers.orgIn this episode of The Peacemakers Podcast, we enter the heart of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat, held each November by Zen Peacemakers. This episode explores what it means to allow the place itself to become the teacher.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgStreet Retreats are a powerful act of bearing witness.
The intention is not to imitate suffering,
but to meet it without turning away.
In that meeting, reflection becomes transformation.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgFrom Belfast to Zen Practice — and Back Again
Zen teacher Paul Haller grew up in a working-class Catholic neighborhood in Belfast during The Troubles, when violence and mistrust divided entire communities.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgCouncil begins with a circle.
We listen without judgment and speak from the heart.
Respect arises naturally. We begin to see ourselves in one another.
Empathy grows. Community becomes possible.
We find common ground, beyond opinions , prejudices, and ideas.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgIn this new episode of the Peacemaker Podcast, Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe sits down with five longtime Zen Peacemakers to explore the living edge of Taking Action — the third of the Three Tenets.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgZen Peacemakers is a global community.
When you join, you become part of this world-spanning web.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgIn this deeply personal and unguarded exchange, Krishna Das and Bernie Glassman reflect on what it means to bear witness—from Auschwitz to the Black Hills to the streets of our own cities. They speak honestly about fear, memory, and ancestral wounds.
@zenpeacemakers.orgOur annual Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz-Birkenau is only two months away - now is the time to register and make your travel plans!
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@zenpeacemakers.orgZen Peacemakers was founded in 1996 by Zen Master Bernie Glassman.
His invitation remains simple and profound:
Don’t turn away.
@zenpeacemakers.orgOur annual Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz-Birkenau is just over two months away. Join us!
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@zenpeacemakers.orgIn this luminous episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, poet and Zen practitioner Jane Hirshfield joins Geoff O’Keeffe for a grounded, intimate conversation about how poems — and practice — help us meet a fractured world without turning away.
@zenpeacemakers.orgJoin a global community grounded in compassion.
The Zen Peacemakers community is open to all walks of life — across cultures, faiths, and perspectives.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgResilience grows from clear seeing and an open heart — toward others and ourselves. When compassion and courage move together, we can face suffering without hardening. Soft hearts, steady action. This is integrity in practice. #Compassion
@zenpeacemakers.orgFaith can look like walking city streets after dark, offering presence without agenda.
Join San Francisco Night Ministry and Rev. Trent Thornley for a conversation on deep listening.
@zenpeacemakers.org"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanit is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirt. " - Mahatma Gandhi
@zenpeacemakers.orgJoin Zen Peacemakers on Tuesday, September 29th for a Peacemaker Circle with poet Jane Hirshfield on art-making and activism, and the perennial question of meeting the difficult with tenderness, humility, and courage.
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@zenpeacemakers.orgOur vision is not escape from the world —
but transformation within it.
Suffering becomes wisdom.
Compassion becomes action.
@zenpeacemakers.org"We can't do anything from a place of knowing... we have to listen." - Bernie Tetsugen Glassman
@zenpeacemakers.orgWhat does it mean to bear witness at Auschwitz-Birkenau?
Bring your questions. Come to listen. Come as you are.
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