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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 02/10/2026

From 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. Listen now to the Peacemakers Podcast: open.substack.com/pub/zenpe... #BearingWitness

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Growing Up in the Shadow of The Troubles — Bearing Witness with Ryushin Paul Haller

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 01/10/2026

Council 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. #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 25/09/2026

In 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. 🎧 Tune in at voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/... #TakingAction

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 24/09/2026

Zen Peacemakers is a global community. When you join, you become part of this world-spanning web. Local presence. Global connection. Discover our affiliates and the work they’re doing. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #ContemplativeAction

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 18/09/2026

In 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. bit.ly/4anMjEa #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 17/09/2026

Our annual Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz-Birkenau is only two months away - now is the time to register and make your travel plans! Register at zenpeacemakers.org/programs... Read more from Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder: voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/... #BearingWitness #ZenPeacemakers #Auschwitz

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 17/09/2026

Zen Peacemakers was founded in 1996 by Zen Master Bernie Glassman. His invitation remains simple and profound: Don’t turn away. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #Bernie

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 11/09/2026

Our annual Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz-Birkenau is just over two months away. Join us! Register at zenpeacemakers.org/programs... #BearingWitness #ZenPeacemakers #Auschwitz #ThreeTenets #Compassion #MindfulAction

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 11/09/2026

In 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. voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/... #janehirshfield

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 10/09/2026

Join a global community grounded in compassion. The Zen Peacemakers community is open to all walks of life — across cultures, faiths, and perspectives. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #ContemplativeAction #EngagedSpirituality #ThreeTenets

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 07/09/2026

Resilience 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

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 04/09/2026

Faith 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. bit.ly/4rFXU8S #HousingJustice

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 04/09/2026

"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 #CompassionateAction #ZenPeacemakers

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 04/09/2026

Join 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. Register here: hive.zenpeacemakers.org/net...

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 03/09/2026

Our vision is not escape from the world — but transformation within it. Suffering becomes wisdom. Compassion becomes action. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 02/09/2026

"We can't do anything from a place of knowing... we have to listen." - Bernie Tetsugen Glassman #ZenPeacemakers #NotKnowing #BearingWitness #Taking Action

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 01/09/2026

What does it mean to bear witness at Auschwitz-Birkenau? Bring your questions. Come to listen. Come as you are. Register for the free information session with the link in bio #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #AuschwitzBirkenau #Auschwitz #ZenPractice #Peacebuilding #ContemplativePractice

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 28/08/2026

In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, we share reflections from Bernie Glassman speaking from different periods of his life — the first twenty years, the second, the third. What emerges is not biography. It is something much more immediate. voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/... #ZenPeacemakers

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 28/08/2026

We look outward for peace — in policies and leaders — but peace can’t grow from an inner war. When we stop fighting ourselves and meet our fears and grief with care, something shifts. Making peace within isn’t indulgent; it’s foundational. #NotKnowing

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 26/08/2026

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi #NotKnowing #BeginnerMind #OpenAwareness #LettingGoOfCertainty

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 24/08/2026

"Don't simply attempt to overcome hardship, make it into joy to overcome it." - Taizan Maezumi #ZenPeacemakers #MindfulAction #Resilience #BearingWitness #ZenWisdom

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 21/08/2026

Jeff Bridges and Krishna Das join the Peacemakers Podcast for a tender conversation on illness, gratitude, and “scary, but okay.” Listen at: bit.ly/4aEZ8vd #ZenPeacemakers

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 21/08/2026

"Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be." - Bernie Tetsugen Glassman #DailyPractice

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 20/08/2026

What is contemplative social action? The Peacemakers Podcast brings you original conversations with leaders and communities involved in creative approaches to address suffering in our world. Practice. Dialogue. Action. Subscribe and listen: voice.zenpeacemakers.org/s/... #ZenPeacemakers

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 19/08/2026

"We don't have to worry about what to do." - Bernie Tetsugen Glassman When we fully bear witness and listen deeply to life, the right action emerges naturally. #ContemplativeAction #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 17/08/2026

"Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting." - Jack Kornfield #LettingGo

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 14/08/2026

Explore the transformative practice of Council. In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, we sit down with Jared Seide of Beyond Us & Them what becomes possible when people come together in a circle and truly listen to each other. voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/... #PrisonOutreach

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 14/08/2026

"If you eliminate even one group, you eliminate the entire circle." - Bernie Tetsugen Glassman #Belonging

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 13/08/2026

Our work exists because of shared commitment — where practice and action are supported by community. This is how compassion circulates. Join the economy of generosity by making a gift at zenpeacemakers.org #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #ContemplativeAction #ThreeTenets

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 12/08/2026

"In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness or de facto, we are practicing mindlessness." - Jon Kabat-Zinn #Mindfulness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 10/08/2026

Awakening isn’t postponed or relocated. It happens right where you are — in this body, this moment, this life. Nothing needs to be different for practice to begin. #ZenPractice #Awakening #DailyPractice

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 09/08/2026

Join us on Monday, August 10, at 12 PM US Eastern Time for the Zen Peacemakers Core Training Series: Introduction to Zen Peacemaking with Eve Marko. Register to receive the Zoom link here: hive.zenpeacemakers.org/eve... #ZenPeacemakers #EveMarko #ThreeTenets #NotKnowing #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 07/08/2026

What happens when the world goes mad—and we go mad right along with it? In this episode of The Peacemakers Podcast, Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer brings to life the prophetic parable of the tainted grain by Rebbe Nachman. Listen Today! bit.ly/4vByCKM

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 07/08/2026

So much good in the world goes unrealized because we're afraid to ask. We tell ourselves we don't want to burden anyone. We convince ourselves that if people wanted to help, they would. But generosity is relational - it requires an opening on both sides. #Peacemaking #NotKnowing #TakingAction

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 12/06/2026

Not Turning Away: Hozan Alan Senauke and the Practice of Staying In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, we sit with Hozan Alan Senauke — a Zen priest, teacher, musician, and lifelong practitioner of engaged Buddhism . voice.zenpeacemakers.org/p/...

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 12/06/2026

There’s no graduation from practice. No final badge. Awareness isn’t a weekend project — it’s lifelong. Conditioning runs deep; habits return. We practice not because we’re failing, but because we’re human. The work is ongoing — and that’s simply real. #LifelongPractice

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 12/06/2026

Ecosattva Councils focus on bearing witness to and dealing with ecological crises and climate change. Everyone is invited to join, listen and share, especially those active in eco projects as their social engagements. Reserve a Spot : hive.zenpeacemakers.org/eve...

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 12/06/2026

In 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. Listen Today! bit.ly/4xhBcY8

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 11/06/2026

Bearing Witness Retreats invite you to open to whatever is arising — within yourself and in the world. Through not-knowing and deep presence, we strengthen our capacity to stay centered even when everything feels uncertain. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #ContemplativeAction #EngagedSpirituality

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 11/06/2026

Held in the Black Hills, this retreat invites participants into relationship—with the land, with Lakota community members, and with one another. This year, for the first time, horses will be part of the experience. Learn more and register: hive.zenpeacemakers.org/eve... #Indigenous

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 10/06/2026

Not Knowing comes first for a reason. Certainty closes us; openness lets us listen, be surprised, and be changed. Not Knowing isn’t passivity — it’s radical openness. When we release fixed ideas, something alive can emerge. #NotKnowing

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 08/06/2026

The world’s problems aren’t obstacles to awakening — they’re the soil for it. Like the lotus, transformation grows in the mud. We don’t wait for purity to act. We enter housing, poverty, and injustice as practice. This is where change begins. #TakingAction

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 07/06/2026

We invite you into a shared space of listening and presence. Introduction to the Way of Council—exploring a core Zen Peacemakers practice of speaking and listening from the heart, beyond fixing or debate. hive.zenpeacemakers.org/eve... Monday, June 8th 12pm ET

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 05/06/2026

Zen teacher Nancy Mujo Baker invites us to encounter the Buddhist precepts as living manifestations of oneness. Not commandments. Not ideals. But the natural functioning of a heart that is no longer divided. bit.ly/4bJYHRq #Buddhism

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 05/06/2026

Bernie spoke of Indra’s Net — an infinite web where each jewel reflects all others. Nothing exists alone. No suffering is isolated. When we harm one, we harm the whole; when we uplift one, we uplift the whole. Bearing Witness helps us see this clearly. #Interdependence

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 04/06/2026

Meaningful work is unfolding across the world. Our weekly newsletter gathers news and events from our global community practicing contemplative social action. #ZenPeacemakers #BearingWitness #ContemplativeAction #EngagedSpirituality #ThreeTenets

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 04/06/2026

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 03/06/2026

True peace begins with honoring the uniqueness of each person and moment. When we respect difference and remember our shared humanity, we can bear witness without judgment and act with compassion. Diversity becomes something to celebrate, not fear. #BearingWitness

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Zen Peacemakers @zenpeacemakers.org · 01/06/2026

Separation is an illusion. Our lives are interwoven — every action affects the whole. When we truly see interconnectedness, compassion becomes active. Suffering is no longer “someone else’s problem.” It’s shared. From that awareness, right action flows. #Interconnectedness

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