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Overview of the Maezumi Institute
Maezumi Institute
In Gratitude
Dana to Teachers
The House of One People of The Maezumi Institute
The Maezumi Institute is the major study/practice center of the Zen
Peacemakers, offering training paths, study programs, and hands-on
internships. The major areas of our programming are:
Zen,
Socially Engaged Buddhism,
Multi-faith and
Sacred Arts.
Main Hall of the House of One People
Roshi Bernie Glassman has served as abbot of three very large Zen centers
in the United States and through his successors, has founded a lineage
of many teachers and many more Zen centers, groups and circles. But his biggest
challenge has been to teach the Dharma outside the meditation hall, in
the worlds of business, social action, conflict resolution, and
environmental stewardship.
This work calls for the creation of new upayas, or skillful means,
that bring people to directly experience the interconnectedness of all
life within the context of everyday behavior. It calls for new
structures, new earth forms.
The Maezumi Institute is a learning and practice center that supports
the work of Zen Peacemakers.
The Institute is located in Montague, Ma on a property endowed by
nature with great beauty -- typical New England foliage, a small river
and abundant wildlife. The Institute is the site of the House of One
People that was born out of a rustic old barn. The weather-beaten
boards, the wide plank floors and the beautiful beams and pillars of the
old barn survived the metamorphosis to grace the newly unfolding House
of One People with an elemental simplicity - stunning and remarkable.
The House of One People is a place for multi-faith practice. A safe place
for the practice and exploration of different religious traditions.
The Maezumi Institute is a place where people contribute their insight,
experience, and aspirations, and are in turn inspired and energized to
effect change in their personal and social spheres. The possibilities
of what we bring back to our communities thus increase in direct
proportion to the networks, resources, and interconnectedness forged at
the Institute.
The mission of the Maezumi Institute is to bring dharma practice and teachings
into all our life paths and to create new structures and techniques to help
us realize that life as it is, in all its manifestations, is our own
basic awakened nature.
A major theme of the Institute is expressed in
the Japanese phrase "gyogaku funi" or "practice and study are
not two." We express this with the term "study/practice".
Playing freely in self-fulfilling and
Other-fulfilling Samadhi,
I vow to maintain and nourish
The One Buddha Mind Seal.
Life after life, birth after birth,
Practicing diligently,
I vow to never let die the wisdom seed
Of the buddhas and ancestors.
Truly! I vow this to you.
In deep gratitude,
Bernard Tetsugen Glassman
Where indicated in the program listings, some teachers do not receive payment for their teachings. Instead, dana is requested on their behalf, providing support for their lives.
Dana, which is the Sanskrit term for giving, has been a part of Buddhist teaching ever since the days of the Buddha. Instead of paying a fee, you are asked to open your heart, feel appreciation for the valuable teachings you've received in the program and for the teacher providing them, and give generously. Dana is optional; it is part of the thread of giving and receiving appearing in all relationships and an eloquent reminder of the interdependence of life. Without dana there would be no teachers; without teachers there would be no teachings.
At the end of each retreat, please consider the value of what you have received and make your own offering to the teacher from whom you have received it.