- Selected Upcoming Events
- All Events in Chronological Order
Young Buddhists' Retreat
This retreat (for folks between 18-35 years of age) promotes the work of some of the new generation taking up the Dharma torch. There will be an optional Introduction to Zen Practice Thursday afternoon. The retreat will begin Thursday night and include plenty of zazen, talks by the leaders and a period of breakout workshops, private interviews with Ethan Nichtern, Brad Warner, Ian Koebner and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn, and performances Saturday night by Ian Sacred Slam Koebner, and Kate Bornstein.
August 28-31
Fee: $200
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Resident Training Program in Socially Engaged Buddhism
Faculty includes Roshi Bernie Glassman, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko, Dharmaholder James Daikan Bastien, Sensei Paul Genki Kahn, seniors of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha and leaders in the peacemaking movement.
This Resident Training Program provides training to those who wish to practice in Zen Houses or in the area of peacemaking and social service. The trainees will study best means for transformation of individuals, neighborhoods, and society. There will be a residence training program, from Sept '08 to mid Jan '09, at the Maezumi Institute and a 6 month internship in a Zen House. Those with the appropriate qualifications will receive a Zen Peacemakers Minister Ordination.
The Maezumi Institute is receiving applications for those wishing to join the ten month program that provides a structure for practice, training, and hands-on internships.
September 13, 2008- July 15, 2009 (Another training program will begin in April 2009.)

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Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg at the Maezumi Institute
2- Day Workshop: Power of a Loving Heart
Sharon Salzberg
Lovingkindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg and Devotional Chanting with
Krishna Das.
Lovingkindness meditation (from the Buddhist tradition) and devotional
chanting (an ancient Indian tradition) are complementary practices that
cultivate our natural capacity for faith, compassion and love.
September 13-14

The cost for the entire weekend (including Saturday night film on Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat and Sunday night Kirtan) is $150. This includes lunch and dinner on both Saturday and Sunday.
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1-Day Workshop and Kirtan
The workshop will include Chanting (call and response) with musical accompaniment, stories about his Guru, readings from spiritual traditions, teachings, and discussions about life and the spiritual Path. Krishna Das will be joined by Sharon Salzberg for the workshop, providing an opportunity for Q&A in an intimate setting.
September 14 
Special price for Workshop & Kirtan, including Dinner: $75 pre-registration and $85 at the door
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Kirtan
Join Krishna Das for a devotional evening of chanting, meditation, spiritual readings and storytelling, and open your heart to the Divine within.
September 14, 7pm

Kirtan only: $25 advance, $30 at door
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An Introduction to Socially Engaged Buddhism
Chris Queen, Eve Marko, Genki Kahn
A weekend workshop with Dean Chris Queen, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn. Chris Queen, a Dean at Harvard University has authored two seminal works: Engaged Buddhism in the West and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia.
Saturday morning, Chris will give an historical survey on the various social teachings of Buddhism in India, China and East Asia; and Saturday afternoon he will give a review of Engaged Movements in the Contemporary World, including the recent Buddhist monastic activism and violent reactive repressions in Myanmar and Lhasa. Sunday morning, Eve will discuss the early efforts of the Zen Peacemakers including episodes from her work in Greyston and in facilitating cooperative efforts between Palestinians and Jewish Nationals. Sunday afternoon, Genki will present an Overview of the Zen Peacemakers and their various current practices of Peacemaking as a Spiritual Path.
September 19-21

Fee: $150. This includes tuition and lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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Instructions to the Cook: Roshi Bernie Glassman
Zen masters call a life that is lived fully and completely, with nothing held back, the supreme meal. And a person who lives such a life -- a person who knows how to plan, cook, appreciate, serve, and offer the supreme meal of life, is called a Zen cook.
According to Roshi Glassman, one of the most useful metaphors for life is what happens in the kitchen. In this workshop, Roshi Glassman will offer recipes for the supreme meal, the life lived fully and completely. With the aid of such precepts as Use what you have, Don't reject anything and Recognize your faults as your best ingredients, Glassman will show how these spiritual principles apply to relationships, the marketplace and to building community.
October 10-12

Fee: $150. This includes tuition and lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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Harvesting Wisdom from the Jewish Holy-day Period: A Jewish Meditation Retreat with Rabbi Jeff Roth and Roshi Bernie Glassman
Jeff Roth
Bernie Glassman
The time following the Jewish high Holy-days and Sukkot is a fitting time to reflect on any wisdom gained while entering this new Jewish year. Using the vehicle of silence and a variety of Jewish and Zen meditation approaches, this retreat will offer you the possibility of looking deeply into your own life and coming to a place of greater wisdom, joy and compassion.
October 15-19 
Fee: $350. This includes tuition, lunch and supper.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The Way of Council I: Bonnie Mennell
This weekend training will offers an introduction to the Way of Council. In the practice of Council--a dynamic circle process for developing and sustaining direct, honest and effective communication--each person learns to speak from the heart and to listen with full attention. Council is an ancient form and a modern practice whose roots are within the natural world spanning diverse cultures and religions. The Council process encourages community building, conflict exploration and resolution, the sharing of personal and cultural stories, and inclusive decision-making in a supportive and compassionate environment.
November 7-9

Fee: $200. This includes tuition and lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.
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Transforming Self: Building Inner Resources for Effective and Sustainable Leadership and Peacemaking: Sensei Fleet Maull
Transforming Self is one of the 4 Core Trainings of the Peacemaker Institute's Integral Peacemaker TrainingTM (IPT) program, an innovative, spiritually grounded, integral and transformative leadership training program for non-profit leaders, community activists, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, social activists and peace workers. Fleet Maull is the Founder of the Peacemaker Institute and co-creator of the IPT program.
November 14-16

Fee: $150. This includes tuition and lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 6:45 am on Friday, August 22 and ends at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, August 22, 2008.
This is a
Daily
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Please come for a regular Friday morning schedule of sitting meditation practice..
Schedule:
6:45-8:00 a.m.: Sitting meditation
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The event begins at 7:30 pm on Sunday, August 24 and ends at 9:00 pm on Sunday, August 24, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
Donation
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413 367-2080 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Nur Habib
At the Heart of Sufism is the practice of Zikr -- the remembrance of God, whom we call Allah, and who is known by so many beautiful names by the world's various spiritual traditions. The Zikr circle is open to people of all religious and non-religious paths and is a universal mode of awakening to the Divine presence within each of us through chanting, singing, and prayer.
This evening will be a communal experience of the Zikr Ceremony as practiced by the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Order of Dervishes.
NO NEED TO REGISTER. JUST COME!
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The event begins at 6:45 am on Monday, August 25 and ends at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, August 25, 2008.
This is a
Daily
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Please come for a regular Monday morning schedule of sitting meditation practice..
Schedule:
6:45-8:00 a.m.: Sitting meditation
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The event begins at 7:30 pm on Monday, August 25 and ends at 10:00 pm on Monday, August 25, 2008.
This is a
Weekly
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Shubalananda
Kirtan is held every Monday night in the House of One People. The Singing of Kirtan goes back a thousand years in India. Created by ancient Rishis from the seed mantras of the Vedas, the sounds are designed to resonate with your chakras to help move the energy up your spine. Then, they put these sounds, like Om Namah Shivaya, or SitaRam, to a simple melody.
Kirtan is an easy practice. We sing the kirtan, call and response style, over and over, with more and more Bhava (spiritual emotion, or Ray Charles like soul) until the singers enter higher planes of consciousness. The wonderful thing about Kirtan is that it is fun. Other forms of sadhana can be strenuous, but Kirtan just flows from everyone's connection to music. Even those who feel they do not have a good voice discover themselves singing on pitch, in time. It is an excellent way to discover your true voice, singing these Sanskrit seed mantras.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, August 26 and ends at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, August 26, 2008.
This is a
Weekly
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Please come for a regular Tuesday evening schedule of sitting meditation, study, and council practice..
Schedule:
7:00 pm: Beginning Meditation Instruction
7:30-9:00 p.m.: Sitting meditation and Study
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The event begins at 6:45 am on Thursday, August 28 and ends at 7:45 am on Thursday, August 28, 2008.
This is a
Daily
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413 367-2080 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Please come for a regular Thursday morning schedule of sitting meditation practice..
Schedule:
6:45-7:45 a.m.: Sitting meditation
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Thursday, August 28 and ends at 12:00 pm on Sunday, August 31, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
Maezumi Institute, Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $200
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Faculty includes: Ethan Nichtern, Brad Warner, Ian Sacred Slam Koebner, Kate Bornstein,
Peter "Kuku Sama" Cunningham
and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn. (You can read their bios by linking on their name.)To visit their websites please link to:
Kate Bornstein, Ian Koebner, Ethan Nichtern or Brad Warner
This retreat promotes the work of some of the new generation taking up the Dharma torch.
There will be an optional Introduction to Zen Practice, led by Sensei Paul Genki Kahn, Thursday afternoon.
The retreat will begin Thursday night and include plenty of zazen, talks by the leaders and a period of breakout workshops.
There will also be private interviews offered with Ethan Nichtern, Brad Warner, Ian Koebner and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn, and performances Saturday night by Ian Sacred Slam Koebner and Kate Bornstein.
To view the tentative schedule please link here.
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The event begins at 8:30 am on Saturday, September 06 and ends at 11:00 am on Saturday, September 06, 2008.
This is a
Weekly
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
free!
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Please come for a regular Saturday morning schedule of sitting meditation practice..
Schedule:
Sitting meditation: 9:30-10:45 am
Talk: 10:45-11:30
Gate of Sweet Nectar: 11:30-12:00
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The event begins at 10:00 am on Saturday, September 13 and ends at 12:00 pm on Sunday, July 12, 2009.
This is a
Ongoing
program.
1st five months at Maezumi Institute. Next six months at a Zen House.
Registration Fee: $20000
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Faculty includes Roshi Bernie Glassman, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko, Dharmaholder James Daikan Bastien, Sensei Paul Genki Kahn, seniors of the Zen
Peacemakers Sangha and leaders in the socially engaged buddhism movement.
The Maezumi Institute will offer a four-month residential training program in socially engaged Buddhism beginning in September 2008. The curriculum will cover four areas - Zen training, financial and managerial skills, service methodologies, and communications. All these aspects of the curriculum are considered spiritual practices. Study at the Institute will be followed by a six-month residential service internship in a Zen House. Upon completion of requirements in the two phases of study, students will be eligible for either certification as a Socially Engaged Buddhist Mentor or for ordination as a Socially Engaged Buddhist Minister.
The goals of the program are three-fold: to inspire and train a new generation of practitioners committed to socially engaged Buddhist practice; to encourage the design of new models for such practice; and to make direct efforts to alleviate suffering in the world by training practitioners to create and run social service projects in disadvantaged areas.
The training of Zen Peacemakers is grounded in traditional Zen practice - meditation, retreats, liturgy, a personal study-relationship with an empowered teacher, and the intimate recognition of mastery, which maintains the integrity of Zen lineages.
What characterizes the socially engaged practices of Zen Peacemakers is how they extend Dharma from the meditation hall to the worlds of business, social service, conflict resolution, and environmental stewardship. This work has engendered new models of practice, especially ones that address the needs of individuals and communities in disadvantaged areas.
The curriculum will include formal training in the basic tenets of Buddhism, the Observances of the Zen Peacemakers and meditation practice. We will teach administrative and management skills on how to develop sustainable businesses and create jobs, work with a Board of Directors, set policy, manage staff, fundraise and handle budgets. The training will also include the development of counseling skills, a multi-faith perspective, knowledge of social service systems and the delivery of services, the variety of public funding sources and client entitlements, community organizing, and some knowledge of mental health assessment and referrals. Communication skills will cover networking, public relations and advertising, from flyers, brochures and print advertisements to web site development and pod casting.
In addition to the core, residential faculty, an array of the leading teachers and educators in socially engaged Buddhism will lead workshops within the program at the Maezumi Institute.
Fees include room, board, classes, and workshops: $20,000. There are a limited number of scholarships up to 100% of the total fee. These will be awarded on a competitive basis. Those receiving
full scholarships will be asked to commit to working in a Zen House for one-year at a reasonable
salary.
The Maezumi Institute, the study and training arm of the Zen Peacemakers, is receiving applications for those wishing to join the ten month program that provides a structure for
practice, training, and hands-on internships.
Please fill in the application form and send it to:
Daniel Herman
Resident Program
Maezumi Institute
177 Ripley Road
Montague MA, 01351
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The event begins at 10:00 am on Saturday, September 13 and ends at 9:00 pm on Sunday, September 14, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
House of One People at the Maezumi Institute in Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $150
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty: Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg
Lovingkindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg and Devotional Chanting with
Krishna Das.
Lovingkindness meditation (from the Buddhist tradition) and devotional
chanting (an ancient Indian tradition) are complementary practices that
cultivate our natural capacity for faith, compassion and love. Especially in
times of uncertainty, these techniques can open us to deeper levels of
courage and wisdom. Through teachings, stories, songs and guided
meditations, this workshop leads us within to find our own inner knowledge -- the power of the heart.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg has been teaching meditation retreats worldwide for almost
30 years. She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre,
Massachusetts and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She is the author
of several books, including Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience.
More information can be found at sharonsalzberg.com.
Krishna Das
Krishna Das first traveled to India in 1970 where he met his guru Neem
Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji). Through Maharaj-ji, he was introduced to the
devotional practice of kirtan, an ancient method of heart purification. He
has released several CDs and now leads chanting and workshops around the
world, helping us to turn within and find our own inner understanding.
Krishna Das has also studied Buddhist meditation for more than 30 years.
More information can be found on krishnadas.com.
Sharon and Krishna Das originally met in 1971 at a Buddhist meditation
retreat in Bodhgaya, India. Since then, they have traveled many paths and
studied with many teachers.
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The event begins at 6:30 pm on Saturday, September 13 and ends at 8:30 pm on Saturday, September 13, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
Maezumi Institute, Montague, MA
Registration Fee Unknown
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
In Spite of Darkness - A Spiritual Encounter with Auschwitz
A documentary film by Christof Wolf
Auschwitz -- unique symbol of methodically-perfected horror, and at the same time destination for daily streams of tourists. How can an encounter with this place avoid the banality of a visit?
This question was asked by New York Zen master Roshi Bernard Glassman. His answer: the Auschwitz Retreat.
He invites people of different ethnicity and belief to face Auschwitz directly and without cover. The group will spend five days in meditation, silence, prayer and sharing on the very grounds of the termination camp. An encounter happens between Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists. Descendants of victims meet descendants of perpetrators.
The film portrays five participants and follows closely their inner development. They are changing. Beliefs are undermined, old wounds torn open, reconciliation begins. It is no longer they who come to Auschwitz, it is Auschwitz that comes to them. In silence they bear witness to what happened there.
In Spite of Darkness won 3 Silver Telly Awards in the categories: Videography / Cinematography; use of Music and Religious / Spirituality.
For more information, please visit www.in-spite-of-darkness.com
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The event begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday, September 14 and ends at 9:00 pm on Sunday, September 14, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
House of One People at the Maezumi Institute in Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $75
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Krishna Das
Krishna Das has released numerous CD's and now leads chanting workshops around the world, helping us to turn within and find our own inner understanding.
The workshop will include Chanting (call and response) with musical accompaniment, stories about his Guru, readings from spiritual traditions, teachings, and discussions about life and the spiritual Path. Krishna Das will be joined by Sharon Salzberg for the workshop, providing an opportunity for Q&A in an intimate setting.
A vegetarian dinner will be served in between the Workshop and Kirtan.
Special price for Workshop & Kirtan, including Dinner: $75 pre-registration and $85 at the door
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 14 and ends at 9:30 pm on Sunday, September 14, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
House of One People at the Maezumi Institute in Montague, MA
Early Registration Fee: $25
Late Registration Fee: $30
Early registration fee deadline is Sunday, September 14.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Krishna Das
Krishna Das' music is an expression of over 25 years of traveling and
studying various spiritual traditions in India. Sharing his heart through
music and chanting Kirtan is the basis of Krishna Das' own spiritual work;
his way of serving the Divine within himself and others.
Join Krishna Das
for a devotional evening of chanting, meditation, spiritual readings and
storytelling, and open your heart to the Divine within.
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The event begins at 7:00pm on Friday, September 19 and ends at 5:00pm on Sunday, September 21, 2008.
This is a
Annual
program.
Maezumi Institute
Early Registration Fee: $150
Late Registration Fee: $175
Early registration fee deadline is Friday, September 05.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Dean Chris Queen, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn
Chris Queen, Eve Marko, Genki Kahn
Chris Queen, a Dean at Harvard University has edited two seminal works: Engaged Buddhism in the West and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia.
Friday night, Genki will lead exploratory discussions on Zen perspectives regarding the relationships between personal life and the social universe.
Saturday morning, 10am - 12:30pm, Chris will give an historical survey on the various social teachings of Buddhism in India, China and East Asia; and Saturday afternoon, 2pm - 4:30pm, he will give a review of Engaged Movements in the Contemporary World, including the recent Buddhist monastic activism and the resulting violent repressions in Myanmar and Lhasa. Saturday night, Chris will give a talk and slide show presentation on the work of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who challenged the caste system in India and led millions to convert to Buddhism and emerge from a history of prejudice and violence. Dr. Ambedkar is one of the founders of the modern Indian state. He drafted the Constitution and was the first Law Minister in Nehru's cabinet.
Sunday morning, Eve will share some of the early history of social service projects developed by the Zen Peacemakers, including the holistic, wrap-around services at the Greyston Mandala, revitalizing individual lives and a community in southwest Yonkers, NY, and peacemaking efforts of activist circles in Europe and the Middle East.
Sunday afternoon, Genki will present an overview of current projects being developed by the Zen Peacemakers and their various practices of peacemaking.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 9:00 am on Saturday, September 27 and ends at 4:30 pm on Saturday, September 27, 2008.
This is a
Monthly
program.
House of One People at the Mother House of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha in Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $25
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext. 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Silent retreat includes meditation, a dharma talk, private study with Sensei Eve Myonen Marko, and lunch.
Cost: Montague Farm Zendo Members: $20; Non-members: $25. Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers. Please register ahead of time.
Roshi Bernie Glassman will give a Dharma Talk at 4:30pm.
Members of Montague Farm Zendo and Zen Peacemakers please call 413-367-2080 ex. 4# to register and receive your membership discount.
Sensei Myonen's future one day retreats, for 2008, are scheduled on October 25 and November 22.
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The event begins at 8:00 pm on Friday, October 03 and ends at 10:00 pm on Friday, October 03, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
The Zen Peacemakers' House of One People 177 Ripley Road, Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $18
Contact Shantigar Office by email or call 413.339.4332 for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Adapted for the stage by
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Produced by Shantigar in association with Pilgrim Theater of Ashfield, with Court Dorsey, Kermit Dunkelberg, Susan Thompson; directed by Kim Mancuso, music by John VanEps and Steve Gorn, set by Jun Maeda.
A Benefit to Rebuild Shantigar's Theatre Barn
Performances October 3 and 4, 8 pm.
Buy Tickets at World Eye Bookstore, Boswell's Books, Food for Thought, Everyone's Books & at Door
information: 413.339.4332 or go to: www.shantigar.org
Tibetan Book of the Dead guides the practitioner through experiences occurring after death, during the interval between death and the next rebirth. This interval is known in Tibetan as the Bardo.
The original texts cover a wide range of subjects, including the signs of death, the stages of after-death states, meditation instructions, visualizations of deities, liturgies and prayers, lists of mantras, descriptions of, and indications for future rebirth, as well as the Enlightened Perspective.
Jean-Claude van Itallie has transformed these texts into a multidimensional psychic journey through life and death, through hells and heavens toward illumination wherever we may be.
Jean-Claude van Itallie is a luminous playwright and a leading figure in the American avant-guard theater. He was one of the founding teachers at Naropa Instittute. These performances will help fund the rebuilding of the playhouse, which adorned Shantigar and burned down last year, the Shantigar Theatre Barn.
Shantigar is a not-for-profit educational foundation dedicated to the practice and cross-pollination of theater, meditation and healing. Located on a spectacularly beautiful old farm on a mountainside in Western Massachusetts, Shantigar offers workshops and hosts theater artists, meditation masters, and healers.
"Jean-Claude van Itallie, one of our most original playwrights and a longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, has taken Guru Padmasambhava's 8th Century masterpiece, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and rendered its essential brilliance into deeply moving and inspiring poems." Richard Gere
"Jean-Claude van Itallie brings us face to face with the radiance and emptiness of our own minds. He has made new a relevant - even urgent - text: A guide for the continually arising moments of choice in our living and dying." Diane di Prima
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Friday, October 10 and ends at 1:00pm on Sunday, October 12, 2008.
This is a
Annual
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People building, Montague MA
Early Registration Fee: $150
Late Registration Fee: $175
Early registration fee deadline is Thursday, September 25.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413 367-2080 ext. 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Roshi Bernie Glassman
Zen masters call a life that is lived fully and completely, with nothing held back, the supreme meal. And a person who lives such a life -- a person who knows how to plan, cook, appreciate, serve, and offer the supreme meal of life, is called a Zen cook.
-- Roshi Bernie Glassman, Instructions to the Cook
Roshi Bernie is a Zen Master and founder of the Zen Peacemakers. He is also an aeronautical engineer, an entrepreneur and a social activist who founded the Greyston Mandala of social service organizations in Yonkers, New York.
According to Roshi Bernie, one of the most useful metaphors for life is what happens in the kitchen. In this workshop, Bernie will offer recipes for the supreme meal, the life lived fully and completely. With the aid of such precepts as Use what you have, Don't reject anything and Recognize your faults as your best ingredients, Bernie will show how these spiritual principles apply to relationships, the marketplace and to building community. He will discuss the five main courses of a complete meal that sustains and nourishes life:
- spirituality
- study
- livelihood
- social action
- relationship/community
This workshop is aimed at people who wish to explore the role of spirituality -- and particularly Zen Buddhist teachings -- in the world of business and social action. Roshi Bernie will provide examples from his own life path: as head of a community of Zen practitioners, he established a profitable gourmet bakery to create jobs in the inner city, build supportive housing for homeless families, and developed a housing and a day treatment center for people with HIV/AIDS. He is currently helping to develop Zen Houses, residential dharma centers to be located in impoverished areas and serving the communities they are located in.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 10:00 am on Wednesday, October 15 and ends at 12:00 pm on Sunday, October 19, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One People Building, Montague MA
Early Registration Fee: $350
Late Registration Fee: $375
Early registration fee deadline is Tuesday, October 07.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413 367-2080 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Roshi Bernie Glassman and Rabbi Jeff Roth
The time following the Jewish high Holy-days and Sukkot is a fitting time to reflect on any wisdom gained while entering this new Jewish year. Using the vehicle of silence and a variety of Jewish and Zen meditation approaches, this retreat will offer you the possibility of looking deeply into your own life and coming to a place of greater wisdom, joy and compassion. The deep work allows each of us to see more clearly how our lives become overwhelmed, causing us to shut down, numb out and hurt ourselves and those around us in the process. These practices allows us to glimpse instead, the Divine Presence, the force of Not-Knowing, that helps liberate us from bondage.
Rabbi Jeff Roth
The retreat includes periods of daily prayer and chant. Daily instructions in meditation will help guide both beginning and advanced practitioners as you enter the sacred space created by the retreat process. The morning sessions, led by Rabbi Roth will explore mindfulness meditation from a Jewish perspective.
Roshi Bernie Glassman
In the afternoon sessions, led by Roshi Bernie, we will use the technique of koan practice as we explore themes from the psalms. Koan practice encourages students to let go of their preconceived ideas, bear witness to ourselves and the world, and explore the loving action that arises.
The retreat, which is conducted in social silence, includes times for questions and answers as well as small group and private interviews with the instructors. The week is culminated in a deep celebration of Shabbat.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 9:00 am on Saturday, October 25 and ends at 4:30 pm on Saturday, October 25, 2008.
This is a
Monthly
program.
House of One People at the Mother House of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha in Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $25
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Silent retreat includes meditation, a dharma talk, private study with Sensei Eve Myonen Marko, and lunch.
Cost: Montague Farm Zendo Members: $20; Non-members: $25.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers. Please register ahead of time.
Roshi Bernie Glassman will give a Dharma Talk at 4:30pm.
Members of Montague Farm Zendo and Zen Peacemakers please call 413-367-2080 ex. 4# to register and receive your membership discount.
Sensei Myonen's future one day retreat, for 2008, are scheduled on November 22.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Friday, November 07 and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday, November 09, 2008.
This is a
Annual
program.
Maezumi Institute
Early Registration Fee: $200
Late Registration Fee: $225
Early registration fee deadline is Saturday, November 01.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Bonnie Mennell
This weekend training will offers an introduction to the Way of Council. In the practice of Council--a dynamic circle process for developing and sustaining direct, honest and effective communication--each person learns to speak from the heart and to listen with full attention. Council is an ancient form and a modern practice whose roots are within the natural world spanning diverse cultures and religions. The Council process encourages community building, conflict exploration and resolution, the sharing of personal and cultural stories, and inclusive decision-making in a supportive and compassionate environment.
Council is a great ally in introducing meaningful change in the settings in which we work and live. It is used in communities, public and private schools and universities, therapeutic settings, non-profit and business organizations and families throughout the United States and around the world. This training will introduce participants to the basic intentions and practices of Council. It will also address the particular interests of the participants and the contexts in which they wish to integrate Council processes.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Friday, November 14 and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday, November 16, 2008.
This is a
Annual
program.
Maezumi Institute
Early Registration Fee: $150
Late Registration Fee: $175
Early registration fee deadline is Saturday, November 01.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Fleet Maull
Transforming Self is one of the 4 Core Trainings of the Peacemaker
Institute's Integral Peacemaker TrainingTM (IPT) program, an
innovative, spiritually grounded, integral and transformative
leadership training program for non-profit leaders, community activists, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, social activists and peace workers. The Transforming Self-training will be lead by Peacemaker Institute founder and co-creator of the IPT program, Fleet Maull.
In Transforming Self, a mindfulness-based, intensive weekend leadership training-retreat, participants will increase their
inner resources, emotional intelligence and overall capacity for leadership and effective action in the world by:
- Cultivating greater self-awareness and developing powerful skills for self-management
- Identifying and beginning to transform negative core beliefs and self-limiting habitual patterns
- Learning and/or further developing basic mindfulness and awareness practices as a support for effective and sustainable work in the world
- Increasing the capacity for self-empathy as a foundation for cultivating greater resiliency, compassion and resourcefulness
- Learning to recognize and manage emotional triggers, including the ability to state shift ourselves to a more resourced state
- Learning to actualize ourselves and reclaim our voice and power through self-responsibility and accountability.
- Clarifying our life purpose and developing great inner/outer alignment around purpose.
- Learning to experience and trust their innate goodness, intelligence and wisdom
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
RENEE ROSARIO, Therapist & Peace Activist
"The Peacemaker Training has helped me to find the deep heart of loving action inside of me."
ERIC WILDEN, Homeless Advocate & Activist
"My introduction to the Peacemaker Institute yearlong training was a 4-day "Street Retreat" in Denver. This deep "plunge" experience not only amplified my empathy for the plight of the homeless in America, but also deepened my awareness of the vulnerable "soft spot" in my heart that has so often prevented me from looking suffering in the face."
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Friday, November 21 and ends at 12:00 pm on Sunday, November 23, 2008.
This is a
one-time
program.
Maezumi Institute, Montague, MA
Early Registration Fee: $150
Late Registration Fee: $175
Early registration fee deadline is Thursday, November 20.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty: Michel Dubois
This retreat will focus on food: the politics of food, addressing hunger from the perspective of nutrition, food aid, models of food production, and food distribution as one of the most basic and direct methods of social action.
There will be lectures and discussions, films and readings. The weekend will culminate in creating a meal as a group for public distribution.
Faculty will include major figures in the field, including Kathy McKenna of Haley House, Mr. X and Ms. Y of Haley House's organic farm and Suzanne Webber of Brook's Bend Farm, and David Smith of Stone Barns Organic Farm in Westchester, NY.
Michel Dubois is the President of L'un est l'autre, a soup kitchen in Paris which gives "good food" on Sundays [since most soup kitchens do not serve food on Sundays].
Last Year Michel started a bearing witness retreat in a French village called Oradour sur Glanes, where during World War II the SS Army massacred almost all the inhabitants.
Kathy McKenna
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The event begins at 9:00 am on Saturday, November 22 and ends at 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 22, 2008.
This is a
Monthly
program.
House of One People at the Mother House of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha in Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $25
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Silent retreat includes meditation, a dharma talk, private study with Sensei Eve Myonen Marko, and lunch.
Cost: Montague Farm Zendo Members: $20; Non-members: $25. Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
Please register ahead of time.
Roshi Bernie Glassman will give a Dharma Talk at 4:30pm.
Members of Montague Farm Zendo and Zen Peacemakers please call 413-367-2080 ex. 3# to register and receive your membership discount.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Monday, January 12 and ends at 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 15, 2009.
This is a
one-time
program.
Maezumi Institute, Montague, MA
Registration Fee: $300
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413.367.2080, ext.3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Roshi Bernie Glassman
As Roshi Bernie Glassman prepares to turn 70, he will use this training week to reflect on his 50 years of Zen practice.
His five decades of Zen study and teaching encompass historic phases in the unfolding of Buddhism in this country, and he has been a guiding influence in this epochal cultural and spiritual development.
Roshi Bernie will reflect on what he has learned and how he sees the future development of Zen in the West. He will discuss:
- His early experiences of meditation without a teacher, and subsequent relationships with Maezumi Roshi, Baiun Kuroda Roshi, Yasutani Roshi and Koryu Roshi;
- Formation of and influences on the first generation of American teachers;
- Search for enlightenment and the raising of the Bodhi Mind;
- Challenges of bringing Zen to different realms of society and to all beings;
- Relationship of Zen to other religious traditions;
- Lessons learned from working with and supporting spiritually-based social activists in various countries;
- Developing new forms and structures for sharing the teachings;
- How he sees his future direction and activities as teacher, Zen master, and Founder of the Zen Peacemakers.
Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 7:00pm on Monday, January 12 and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday, March 15, 2009.
This is a
Annual
program.
Maezumi Institute
Registration Fee Unknown
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413-367-2080 x3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
Roshi Bernie Glassman, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn
Roshi Bernie Sensei Myonen Marko Sensei Genki Kahn
From Monday, January 12 to Thursday, March 12 we are offering a Two Month Winter Zen Intensive, which will include two seven-day Retreats. We are inviting ZP Roshi's and Sensei's to teach at the two seven-day retreats, along with Bernie, Eve and Genki. The dates for the two seven-day retreats are January 19 - 25 and February 16 - 22.
Join an international community of practitioners for part or all of this multifaceted, intimate training experience. The daily and weekly schedule for the Two Month Winter Zen Intensive will include morning, noon and evening zazen, Dharma Talks and Personal Interviews each week with Bernie, Eve and Genki, weekly Council, Yoga classes, Arts practice periods (music, painting, poetry), work and study periods.
Please contact Anne Seiki Bull for fees and housing information for the period of the retreat you wish to sign up for.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Friday, January 16 and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday, January 18, 2009.
This is a
Annual
program.
Maezumi Institute
Early Registration Fee: $150
Late Registration Fee: $175
Early registration fee deadline is Friday, January 02.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413-367-2080 x3# for registration and member discount information.
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Faculty:
This year we are opening the Gathering to Zen Peacemakers Sangha members at large, not just seniors, to help celebrate Roshi Bernie's 70th birthday. Throughout the weekend, our ZP Roshi's will take turns giving personal reflections on their lives and practice, what aspects of practice now seem central, and what aspects of the Dharma they would like to see continued by their students after them. We will hold the festivities for Bernie's 70th Saturday Night with a memorable and deplorable No Talent Show, featuring YOU, plus the Order of Minstrels and the Order of Disorder.
Fee includes food and miscellaneous expenses.
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Zen Peacemakers Sangha.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Monday, January 19 and ends at 1:00pm on Sunday, January 25, 2009.
This is a
Annual
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One Poeple Building, Montague MA
Early Registration Fee: $400
Late Registration Fee: $450
Early registration fee deadline is Friday, January 02.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413 367-2080 ext. 3# for registration and member discount information.
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Roshi Bernie Glassman Founder of the Zen Peacemakers, Sensei Michel Engu Dobbs of the Ocean Zendo, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko of the Montague Farm Zendo and Sensei Paul Genki Kahn of the High Mountain Chrystal Lake Zendo.
Roshi Bernie Sensei Myonen Marko Sensei Genki Kahn
There will be at least 6 hours of daily meditation, daily interviews with all the teachers, a daily dharma talk, liturgy and group processes.
Fee includes tuition and food. Optional Dana (donation) will be requested on behalf of teachers.
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The event begins at 7:00 pm on Monday, February 16 and ends at 1:00 pm on Sunday, February 22, 2009.
This is a
one-time
program.
The Maezumi Institute's House of One Poeple Building, Montague MA
Early Registration Fee: $400
Late Registration Fee: $450
Early registration fee deadline is Monday, February 02.
Contact Anne Seiki Bull by email or call 413-367-2080 x3# for registration and member discount information.
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