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Montague Farm Zendo
The Montague Farm Zendo was opened by Sensei Eve Myonen Marko in
September 2005. It offers
opportunities to practice Zen meditation, study with a teacher and a
sangha, do liturgical service, and soon, become involved in social
action. The Montague Farm Zendo is the Zendo of the
Mother House of
the Zen Peacemaker Order.
Sensei Eve Myonen Marko  Sensei Eve is a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman and a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Through her numerous writings and her role as one of the leaders of the Order’s annual bearing witness retreats at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she has made the teachings of Zen in the areas of peacemaking and love accessible to a broad audience. Eve has written and edited numerous articles about the Zen Peacemakers and its member activists, and also collaborated with Roshi Bernie Glassman in the writing of Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Instructions on Making Peace, which was published by Random House in 1998. She has also written biographies and mystery books for children, published by Waldman Publishing. She was a long-time member of the Zen Community of New York, which founded the Greyston Mandala organizations in Yonkers, New York. She was critical in the organization’s progress and developed resources and funding for Greyston Family Inn and Greyston Foundation. Marko was also Executive Director for the Music For the World Foundation, which funds and advocates on behalf of music education programs in American schools. (Dharma talks given by Sensei Eve Myonen Marko at the Montague Farm Zendo) |
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