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2007 April Apr 27: Upcoming Talk: Money Can Heal: Transforming Our Consciousness by Siegfried Finser Siegfried Finser wants to redefine our relationship with money. Money, he says, is evolving along with humanity and is currently being redefined as a powerful tool to be used for promoting peace, spiritual development, and social renewal. Siegfried Finser will discuss his ideas, his work, and the financial organization he created to put his ideas in play (rsfsocialfinance.org), on April 27th, 7pm, at the Hartsbrook School, Piening Hall, 193 Bay Road, Hadley. His book, Money Can Heal: Transforming Our Consciousness, will be available that evening. You will never see money in the same way after reading this ground-breaking book,Ó says Hazel Henderson, author, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. A $10 donation is requested for the evening, to help with expenses. For more information call John at 413-253-3053. 
On April 1, 2007, Peter Kuku-Sama Cunningham, Michel NoCanDo Dobbs, and Mr. YooWho launched the OD Website. Link here and enjoy! March Mar 12: SPRINGFIELD EDITORIAL: Trunks to Treasure 
Springfield hopes to combine profit with a purpose in a recycling effort that will put Hampden County House of Correction inmates to work fashioning Adirondack chairs from the city's dead trees. Credit for the innovative plan to help the homeless goes to Hampden County Sheriff Michael J. Ashe Jr., Bernie T. Glassman of the Zen Peacemakers in Montague and E. Joseph Sibilia Jr. of the Gasoline Alley Foundation. This is the way it works: City crews will haul dead trees to Forest Park where inmates will saw them into planks. The planks will then be sent to the jail where inmates will build the popular style of lawn chairs. Next, the chairs will be sold for $50 to $100 each on an eBay store called Pathmakers. The longer-range goal of the venture is to set up a factory that will employ former inmates and homeless people. We salute the Pathmakers Partnership of Ashe, Glassman and Sibilia for their enterprise. It's a worthy endeavor - one that will train inmates and eventually help former inmates and homeless people carve a better future for themselves. Mar. 8: SPRINGFIELD - It's a recycler's dream. Crews haul dead trees from around the city to Forest Park. Inmates on a work program from the county jail have been using a
sawmill at the park to turn the trees into planks. The planks will be sent to the jail where inmates will fashion them
into Adirondack chairs. The chairs and other items will be sold in a program aimed at helping
homeless people and inmates with nowhere to go once their sentences are
done. Mar. 4: Formation of Zen Peacemaker Sangha Task Force Committees This letter follows-up on the Summary Report that we sent out from
the work we all did together at the Zen Peacemaker Sangha Seniors
Meeting. If some of you who did not volunteer to be on the Task Force to
work in committees want to join, that would be wonderful. E-mail
Genki@optonline.net.
February  New Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders Feb. 25: February 17, 18 and 25, 2007 Empowerments During February 2007, Roshi Bernie Glassman conducted various Empowerments in the Zen
Peacemakers Sangha (ZPS). Feb. 12: Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Grant 
The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism promotes the benefits of Zen Buddhism and related Buddhist practices in a manner complementary to our modern American society. The Foundation awarded a grant of $250,000 to promote our fundraising activities, the establishment of the Maezumi Institute and seed money for our Springfield Project. As part of their mission, they maintain a storefront offering American Buddhist books, talk CDs, music and videos. We invite you to visit their storefront. November Nov 5: Helping the Homeless Nobody with a conscience can ignore the homeless. Their misfortune is heartbreaking. But it's hard not to resent the panhandling and the sanitary issues. Sometimes the homeless feel like a threat. What can be done about the situation? That's the question people have been asking in Springfield, where, a few years ago, a 46-year-old homeless Vietnam veteran froze to death at the doors of Symphony Hall. Enter Bernie Glassman of Montague, a Brooklyn-born Zen master, or "Roshi." He has some ideas on the subject And, given his track record, it's a good idea to pay attention. |
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