Bernie's Zen
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General Information: Overview: Press Clips The work of Roshi Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemakers has elicited significant critical and media acclaim. Below are links to a selection of articles: Republican Jan 14, 20071.) Needy getting a hand SPRINGFIELD - Two entrepreneurs and a sheriff are joining forces to help homeless people. Their project will include more than $10 million, 40 units of housing, training and jobs, they said on Thursday. The plan is a partnership of 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 on Albany Street. Republican Nov 5, 20061.) 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. 1.) Greyston Bakery Part I: When Bernie
Met Ben & Jerry When Bernie Glassman met Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, it was the beginning of a high - caloric connection. 2.) Greyston Bakery Part II: Sweet Success:
At Greyston Bakery, The Formerly Hard-Core
Unemployed Turn Their Lives Around While Turning
Out Delectable Desserts The Greyston Bakery, once an experiment in job-making, has become the for-profit wing of the Greyston Foundation. 3.) 60 Minutes Segment Bob Simon, CBS anchor, visits the Greyston bakery and discusses its history and accomplishments with Bernie Glassman and the Bakery’s current employees. 4.) Maya Lin's Sweet & Socially
Conscious Project The Greyston Bakery, which hires the homeless and makes brownies for Ben & Jerry's ice cream, has a new bakery building designed by Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 5.) Bringing Spirituality Into The Workplace
Violates The Old Idea That Faith And Fortune
Don't Mix. But A Groundswell Of Believers
Is Breaching The Last Taboo In Corporate America. Founded in 1982, Greyston was the brainchild of a Zen Buddhist and entrepreneur known as Roshi Bernard Glassman. 6.) Hard Cases Find Soft Spot In Sweet Place The Greyston bakery, which sends the aroma of sweet butter through a block of warehouses and factories by the Hudson , is run by the Greyston Foundation, which provides permanent housing for former shelter residents, low-cost day care, drug and alcohol counseling, and, soon, housing for people with H.I.V. and AIDS. 7.) Life lessons discovered at Auschwitz Mike Smith recounts his life-changing experience traveling to Auschwitz as part of Peacemaker Community’s annual retreat. Buddhism in Action: A Zen Master Teaches at Harvard Divinity School On a bright morning in September, as the humidity lingered and autumn struggled to find its grip, a small classroom on the second floor of Divinity Hall was buzzing with chatter and anxious movement. Some 40 students were crammed into room meant for 17, crowding into chairs pushed tight against the conference table, sitting on window ledges, and standing along the walls and in the doorway.
Is That Me Bleeding? ANDREW COHEN: This is a delicate moment in the history of planet earth. Overpopulation, environmental pollution, and modern technology's weapons of mass destruction threaten the survival not only of our own species but of all life on the planet. Duane Elgin, social scientist and evolutionary thinker, in this issue of WIE, states, "What we're really facing is the convergence of a number of powerful trendsÑclimate change, species extinction, the spread of poverty, and the growth of population. ...
Roshi Glassman, you're a Zen activist, a passionate Zen activist. For many years you have been responding in very practical ways to the immense suffering that you have seen in the world around you. Ethically and spiritually, how should we deal with this crisis? What, in your view, is the appropriate attitude for us to cultivate in order to come to terms with the ultimacy that Elgin and Berry so graphically describe?
Two Faiths Nourish The 'Wisdom Of The Heart'
Religion Members of the Jewish and Zen traditions unite to
discover they have much in common and much to share,
thanks to people like Maezumi Roshi, Don Singer,
Bernie Glassman, and Egyoku Nakao, teachers on both
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