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Maezumi Institute: Overview : Social Action Track

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Zen Peacemakers develop new social enterprise structures that are self-sustaining, holistic and address important individual and community needs. In social enterprise and the business world, Zen teachings promote the triple bottom line: profit, social transformation, and environmental stewardship. Beginning with the Greyston Mandala of social service companies in 1980 in Yonkers, New York, Zen Peacemakers has built nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that integrate individual transformation along with community growth and that function interdependently to create a balanced and harmonious whole. Zen Peacemakers recently launched the Pathmakers Partnership in Springfield, MA to solve the problem of homelessness in that city and to provide jobs, housing and Pathmaking services to the formerly incarcerated. Training for the Pathmakers Program takes place at the Maezumi Institute.

Guided by a belief in the oneness of life, the ocean of wisdom/ compassion expressed through the diversity of life and the harmonious interdependence of all creations, program participants will learn the three tenets of the Zen Peacemakers: not knowing, bearing witness and loving action, via the 10 practices and four commitments of the Zen Peacemakers.

The PathMaker Program

The PathMaker Program utilizes a personal life path developmental model based on the ancient Buddhist Teaching of the Five Wisdom Energies. These five energies or fields comprise a mandala (circle of life) that graphically depicts the wholeness of life.

The five spheres of energy operating in a personÕs life are broken down into the following five categories and each category and its associated aspects are developed and enhanced trough training in the PathMaker Program:

  • Spirituality
  • Study and Learning
  • Resources
  • Relationships
  • Service


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