| Bearing Witness:
A Spiritual Approach to Social Action
Roshi Bernie Glassman and
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Using examples of work in the Middle East and the United
States, this workshop will explore the three tenets of the
Zen Peacemaker Order: Not-knowing, Bearing Witness, and Loving
Action. Participants will experience “Not-knowing,”
and personally bear witness to areas of joy and despair in
their own life and work. They will also see first-hand how
loving action arises naturally out of this process. During
the workshop, participants will practice silent meditation
and learn to speak and listen from the heart using a council
forum. Finally, they will explore the meaning of spiritually
based action—action that responds to as many diverse
voices as possible.
|  Roshi
Bernie Glassman, PhD, is the cofounder
of the Peacemaker Community, an interfaith, global
community of peacemakers who integrate their religious
and spiritual traditions with their social action
paths. He is also the spiritual director and founder
of the Zen Peacemaker Family, comprised of Zen
sanghas, Peacemaker Circles, and the Zen Peacemaker
Order. Roshi Glassman served for many years as
the abbot of the Zen Community of New York and
is the founder of the Greyston Mandala, a network
of businesses and nonprofit organizations engaged
in community development in Yonkers, New York.
He is the author of Bearing Witness: A Zen
Master’s Lessons in Making Peace and
Infinite Circle: Studies in Zen.
 Sensei
Eve Myonen Marko cofounded Peacemaker
Circle International with Bernie Glassman, building
coalitions of activists in the Middle East, particularly
Israel and Palestine. She is a founding teacher
of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Eve has led street
retreats and is one of the leaders of her organization’s
annual bearing witness retreats at the site of
the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau
in Poland. She has also worked with the Greyston
Mandala, a Buddhist-inspired network of for-profits
and nonprofits in Yonkers, New York.
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