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First Major Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism

August 9 to 14, 2010

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NOVEMBER 2010 AUSCHWITZ BEARING WITNESS RETREAT

First Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat Trailer

The Zen Peacemakers and Bernie Glassman return to Auschwitz for Bearing Witness Retreats on Nov 1-5, 2010. To read descriptions and/or to register, please click here. This retreat includes Youth from Israel, Palestine, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, US and other countries.


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Jorge Alfano

Listing of Recordings

Tsultrim Allione

tsultrim

Women of Wisdom 1989














Elias Amidon

amidon

Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon, Harper, 1999









Hilda Gutierez Baldoquin

Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism edited by Hilda Gutierez Baldoquin, Oct 1, 2004

David Cooper

cooper

Silence, Simplicity and Solitude Bell Tower 1992
The Heart of Stillness Bell Tower 1992











Virginia Coyle

The Way of Council (Joint Author: Zimmerman, Jack) 1996

Krishna Das

kd

Listing of CD's















George Eich

remember

Remember..To Become Whole Again, a film by George Eich on the 1998 Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat.

zen_streets

Zen on the Street, a film by George Eich on the Teachings of Roshi Bernie Glassman








Norman Fischer

zoketsu

Jerusalem Moonlight Clear Glass 1995











Bernie Glassman

InstructionstoCook

Instructions to the Cook: Living a Life that Matters, by Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields (Hardcopy) $15.00

witness

Bearing Witness, by Bernie Glassman (and Eve Marko) (Hardcopy) $15.00

infinite_circle

Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen by Bernie Glassman (Hardcopy) $15.00

hazymoon

The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman





onzenpractice

On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, Mind by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernard Glassman





Videos

Instructions to the Cook. A Zen MasterÕs Recipe for Living a Life That Matters: $20.00

A Film by Christof Wolf

cook dvd cover

Bernard Glassman teaches a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used as a guide for business, social ventures, peacemaking or just life. The documentary demonstrates the uniqueness and human impact of GlassmanÔs work and life. Not only a Zen teacher, he works as a peacemaker in the field of interfaith dialog throughout the world. He has helped change a whole neighbourhood in Yonkers (New York). The film shows how one can live a life that matters.

Color, 44 Minutes, English, NTSC 16:9

© 2006 Loyola Productions Munich GmbH. All Rights Reserved.

Special Features: Trailers, Additional Scenes, DirectorÕs and ProducerÕs Commentary, Interviews

To view the Trailer for Instructions to the Cook, link below:

Peter Gregory

Gate of Sweet Nectar: Feeding Hungry Spirits in an American Zen Community: $20.00

gate dvd cover

This two-DVD set features the uncut film of the Gate of Sweet Nectar ritual at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. A creative adaptation of the traditional Soto Zen ritual for feeding hungry ghosts (Kan Ro Mon) and a remarkable example of the transformation of Buddhism in an American setting.

Includes exclusive interviews with Roshi Bernie Glassman, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao and Rev. Michael Daigu O'Keefe.



Pia Gyger

pia

That We May Join Earth and Heaven: Lay Religious Community for the 21st Century 1996









Joan Halifax

joan

A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in The Complex 1998
The Fruitful Darkness 1994
Shamanic Voices : A Survey of Visionary Naratives 1991
Shaman 1988
Shaman: The Wounded Healer 1983
The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof)
Metta Practices for Being with the Dying, audiotape
Being with Dying, a six-audiotape set 1997



Peter D. Hershock

Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Jul 1996

Lex Hixon

lex
living_buddha

Living Buddha Zen (Paperback) by Lex Hixon $15.00

Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment 1994
Mother of the Buddhas: Meditaion on the Prajnaparamita Sutra 1993
Atom from the Sun of Knowledge 1993
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna 1992
Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions 1989
Heart of the Koran 1988



Jon Kabat-Zinn

jon

Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (With: Kabat-Zinn, Myla) 1997
Power of Meditation and Prayer (Joint Author with : Moore, Thomas and Dossey, Larry)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life 1994
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness 1990



Robert Kennedy

kennedy

Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: the Place of Zen in Christian Life, Continuum, 1995











Alan Lew

One God Clapping, Kodansha, 1999

Bo Lozoff

bo

Just Another Spiritual Book 1990
Lineage and Other Tales of Wisdom 1990
Inner Corrections: Finding Peace and Peace Making (with Braswell, Michael) 1989
We'Re All Doing Time 1985



Taizan Hakuyu Maezumi

appreciate

Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice By Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Edited by Eve Myonen Marko and Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Foreword by Bernie Glassman (Hardcopy) $15.00

The first major collection of teishos by Maezumi Roshi, founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center.

Experience his "brilliant, simple, infinitely subtle appreciation of this precious life" and the unique teaching style that drew thousands of Dharma students to him.

Peter Matthiessen (partial list)

muryo
dragon

Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 By Peter Matthiessen (Hardcopy) $15.00

From Chapter 1

On an August day of 1968, returning home to Sagaponack, Long Island, after a seven-month absence in Africa, I was astonished by the presence in my driveway of three inscrutable small men who turned out to be Japanese Zen masters. Hakuun Yasutani-roshi, eighty-four...

Lost Man's River: A Novel 1997
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark 1997
No Boundaries 1997
East of Lo Monthang 1996
The Cloud Forest 1996
Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia 1995
Indian Country 1992
Killing Mister Watson 1990
African Silences 1991
Men's Lives 1988
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse 1983
Sand Rivers 1981
The Snow Leopard 1978
Far Tortuga 1975
The Wind Birds 1973
The Tree Where Man Was Born 1972
Sal Si Puedes 1969
At Play in the Field of the Lord 1966
Wildlife in America 1959

Michael O'Keefe

daigu

Raising the Ashes, a film by Michael O'Keefe on the 1996 Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat











Elizabeth Roberts

Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon, Harper, 1999

Marshall B. Rosenberg

nvc

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion (Paperback) by Marshall B. Rosenberg $12.00







Sri Swami Satchidananda

gurudev

Beyond Words
The Golden Present
Guru and Disciple
The Healthy Vegatarian
Integral Yoga Hatha Henry Holt
The Living Gita Henry Holt 1988
Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Mother is the Baby's First Guru
Peace is Within Our Reach
To Know Your Self
Spiritual Intimacy

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Zalman

From Age-ing to Sage-ing Warner Books, 1995
The First Step Bantom, 1983
Fragments of a Future Scroll Leaves of Grass Press 1975
Gate to the Heart ALEPH 1993
Spiritual Intimacy Aronson 1991







Dianne Shainberg

Healing In Psychotherapy, gordon and breach 1983
Path and Process of Inner Change, gordon and breach 1993

Rami Shapiro

wisdom of the jewish sages, Bell Tower 1993

Theophane

Theophane











Arthur Waskow

Waskow

Down-to-Earth Judaism
Godwrestling Jewish Lights, 1994
Godwrestling-Round 2 Jewish Lights, 1996
Seasons of Our Joy Beacon1982
The Freedom Seder
These Holy Sparks Harper & Row 1983











Jack Zimmerman

Flesh and Spirit: The Mystery of Intimate Relationship (Joint Author: McCandless, Jaquelyn) 1998
The Way of Council (Joint Author: Coyle, Virginia) 1996

Ageing

From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Warner Books, 1995

Arts

Listing of Recordings, Jorge Alfano

Listing of CD's , Krishna Das

Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness , (with Eve Marko) Bell Tower 1998

Shiviti, Ka-Tzetnik
Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey, David Schneider. Shambhala 1993
Against Forgetting, Carolyn Forche. Norton 1993

Buddhism

In the Lap of the Buddha, Gavin Harrison
Essential Zen, Tanahashi & Schneider
The Threefold Lotus Sutra, Weatherhill/Kosei 1975

Lex Hixon

Living Buddha Zen 1995
Mother of the Buddhas: Meditaion on the Prajnaparamita Sutra 1993

Christianity

Pia Gyger

That We May Join Earth and Heaven: Lay Religious Community for the 21st Century 1996

Robert Kennedy

Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: the Place of Zen in Christian Life, Continuum, 1995

Community Building

Community Building on the Web: Secret..., Amy Jo Kim, Peachpit Press; April 6, 2000

Conflict Resolution

Council

The Way of Council, Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle 1996

Death and Dying

Rituals of Healing, Jeanne Achterberg, Barbara Dossey, & Leslie Kolkmeier
Mortally Wounded, Michael Kearney
Who Dies?, Stephen Levine
A Whole New Life, Reynolds Price
Living Our Dying, Joseph Sharp 
Metta Practices for Being with the Dying, audiotape by Joan Halifax
Being with Dying, a six-audiotape set by Joan Halifax
Mourning & Mitzwah, Anne Brener.Jewish Lights 1993

Health

Rituals of Healing, Jeanne Achterberg, Barbara Dossey, & Leslie Kolkmeier
Power of Meditation and Prayer , Jon Kabat-Zinn with Moore, Thomas and Dossey, Larry)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn 1994
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness , Jon Kabat-Zinn 1990

Hindu

Listing of CD's, Krishna Das

Lex Hixon

Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment 1994
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna 1992

Sri Swami Satchidananda

Beyond Words
The Golden Present
Guru and Disciple
The Healthy Vegatarian
Integral Yoga Hatha Henry Holt
The Living Gita Henry Holt 1988
Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Mother is the Baby's First Guru
Peace is Within Our Reach
To Know Your Self
Spiritual Intimacy

Holocaust

Auschwitz/Birkenau Films

Raising the Ashes, a film by Michael O'Keefe on the 1996 Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat $20.00

ashes

"Raising the Ashes" brings together interviews, religious practices and historical footage to create poignant and powerful film. Reminding us to remember victims and perpetrators of perhaps the greatest crime of the 2Oth Century. After appreciating Auschwitz as a scene of this crime, the Holocaust, the film demonstrates how Auschwitz, and places like it, can become a source of healing in our time and for all time.

remember

Remember..To Become Whole Again, a film by George Eich on the 1998 Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat. $20.00







Books

Many, many books have been published concerning the Holocaust. Those listed below are particularly recommended because they are very powerful personal accounts of bearing witness and/or raise complex moral and spiritual issues.

Amery, Jean. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. Schocken (New York: 1986).

Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Penguin Books (New York: 1976)

Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After (includes None of Us Will Return, Useless Knowledge, and The Measure of Our Days). Yale University Press (New Haven: 1995).

Eliach, Yaffa. Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust. Vintage Books (New York: 1988)

Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors. Penguin Books (New York: 1979).

Hillesum, Etty. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941- 1943. Washington Square Press (New York: 1983).

Hoess, Rudolf, Commandant of Auschwitz. Phoenix Press.

Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Shivitti: A Vision. Gateways/IDHHB (Canada: 1998).

Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Kaddish. Algemeiner Associates (New York: 1998)

Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust. Oxford Univ. Press (New York: 1995).

Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Yale Univ. Press (New Haven: 1991).

Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. Pantheon (New York: 1985).

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Vintage International (New York, 1989)

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Simon & Schuster (New York: 1996).

Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. Vintage Books (New York: 1998).

Steiner, Jean-Francois. Treblinka. The New American Library (New York 1967).

Szpilman, Wladyslaw, The Pianist: the extraordinary story of one man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, Victor Golancz (London, 1999)

Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam Books (New York: 1982).

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. Schocken Books (New York: 1997).

Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments. Schocken Books (New York: '1997). Please note that this book is probably fiction and the author was involved in legal proceedings.

Inner-City

Interfaith

Robert Kennedy Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: the Place of Zen in Christian Life, Continuum, 1995

Islam

Lex Hixon

Atom from the Sun of Knowledge 1993
Heart of the Koran 1988

Jewish

David Cooper

Silence, Simplicity and Solitude Bell Tower 1992
The Heart of Stillness Bell Tower 1992

Alan Lew

One God Clapping, Kodansha, 1999

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

The First Step Bantom, 1983
Fragments of a Future Scroll Leaves of Grass Press1975
Gate to the Heart ALEPH 1993
Spiritual Intimacy Aronson 1991

Howard Schwartz

The Dream Assembly-Tales of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Gateways 1988

Rami Shapiro

wisdom of the jewish sages, Bell Tower 1993

Arthur Waskow

Down-to-Earth Judaism
Godwrestling Jewish Lights, 1994
Godwrestling-Round 2 Jewish Lights, 1996
Seasons of Our Joy Beacon 1982
The Freedom Seder
These Holy Sparks Harper & Row 1983

Meditation

David Cooper

Silence, Simplicity and Solitude Bell Tower 1992
The Heart of Stillness Bell Tower 1992

Native American

The White Roots of Peace , Paul Wallace. Chauncy Press 1986
Manual for the Peacemaker : An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self & Society, Jean Houston. Quest Books 1995
The Book of Elders: The Life Stories & Wisdom of Great American Indians, Sandy Johnson. Harper Collins 1994

Prayer

Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon, Harper, 1999

Prison Work

We'Re All Doing Time , Bo Lozoff 1985

Socially Engaged Buddhism

Bernie Glassman

InstructionstoCook

Instructions to the Cook: Living a Life that Matters, by Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields (Hardcopy) $15.00

witness

Bearing Witness, by Bernie Glassman (and Eve Marko) (Hardcopy) $15.00

engbud

Engaged Buddhism in the West, edited by Christopher Queen
Engaged Buddhism in Asia, Sally King & Christopher Queen
For a Future to be Possible, Thich Nhat Hanh
Blooming of a Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds, Thich Nhat Hanh
Cultivating the Mind of Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism edited by Hilda Gutierez Baldoquin, Oct 1, 2004

Socially Engaged Spirituality

Vision of Zen Peacemakers

Legend and/or Story

InstructionstoCook

Instructions to the Cook: Living a Life that Matters, by Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields (Hardcopy) $15.00

witness

Bearing Witness, by Bernie Glassman (and Eve Marko) (Hardcopy) $15.00

infinite_circle

Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen by Bernie Glassman (Hardcopy) $15.00

The White Roots of Peace , Paul Wallace. Chauncy Press 1986
Manual for the Peacemaker : An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self & Society, Jean Houston. Quest Books 1995
The Book of Elders: The Life Stories & Wisdom of Great American Indians, Sandy Johnson. Harper Collins 1994

Partnership

Chalice and the Blade , Riane Eisler
Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism, Rita Gross. SUNY 1993

Precepts and Rule of Zen Peacemaker Order

Constitution of the Soto Sect of Japan
Shingon Esoteric Buddhism: A Handbook for Followers, Yusei Arai. Koyasan Shingon Buddhism 1997

Exemplars

witness

Bearing Witness, by Bernie Glassman (and Eve Marko) (Hardcopy) $15.00


Shiviti, Ka-Tzetnik
Street Zen:: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey, David Schneider. Shambhala 1993
How Can I Help, Ram Dass with Paul Gorman. 1985
Collected Works, A.T. Ariyaratne. Vishva Lekha 1989
Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh.Parallex Press 1987
Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism edited by Hilda Gutierez Baldoquin, Oct 1, 2004

Youth

Zen

Bernie Glassman

InstructionstoCook

Instructions to the Cook: Living a Life that Matters, by Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields (Hardcopy) $15.00

witness

Bearing Witness, by Bernie Glassman (and Eve Marko) (Hardcopy) $15.00

infinite_circle

Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen by Bernie Glassman (Hardcopy) $15.00

hazymoon

The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman





onzenpractice

On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, Mind by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernard Glassman





Videos

Instructions to the Cook. A Zen MasterÕs Recipe for Living a Life That Matters: $20.00

A Film by Christof Wolf

cook dvd cover

Bernard Glassman teaches a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used as a guide for business, social ventures, peacemaking or just life. The documentary demonstrates the uniqueness and human impact of GlassmanÔs work and life. Not only a Zen teacher, he works as a peacemaker in the field of interfaith dialog throughout the world. He has helped change a whole neighbourhood in Yonkers (New York). The film shows how one can live a life that matters.

Color, 44 Minutes, English, NTSC 16:9

© 2006 Loyola Productions Munich GmbH. All Rights Reserved.

Special Features: Trailers, Additional Scenes, DirectorÕs and ProducerÕs Commentary, Interviews

To view the Trailer for Instructions to the Cook, link below:

Peter Gregory

Gate of Sweet Nectar: Feeding Hungry Spirits in an American Zen Community: $20.00

gate dvd cover

This two-DVD set features the uncut film of the Gate of Sweet Nectar ritual at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. A creative adaptation of the traditional Soto Zen ritual for feeding hungry ghosts (Kan Ro Mon) and a remarkable example of the transformation of Buddhism in an American setting.

Includes exclusive interviews with Roshi Bernie Glassman, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao and Rev. Michael Daigu O'Keefe.



Peter Hershock

Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Peter D. Hershock Jul 1996