Bernie Glassman at Upaya
This podcast features Roshi Bernie Glassman's teachings at Upaya over the years and is a memorial series honoring his profound Zen teachings and socially engaged work in the world.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 6 of 8)
Householders and sanghas. Roshi Bernie Glassman grills the audience on what one might mean by being a “householder” or by participating in a “sangha.” He then illustrates his understanding of househo…
01:10:18 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 5 of 8)
The practice of council. How do actions arise from bearing witness? Bernie fields various questions including how to practice not-knowing in the context of running an organization. He also explores a…
00:48:59 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 4 of 8)
The Three Tenets of the Peacemaker Community. Roshi Bernie, with contributions from Roshi Joan Halifax, applies the practice of training in the Three Tenets of the Peacemaker Community to the current…
00:53:09 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 3 of 8)
Street Retreat beginnings. Roshi Bernie looks at how humans develop what he calls “clubs” and the consequences of this behavior, applying insights from his bearing witness retreats both at Auschwitz …
00:43:21 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 2 of 8)
Attachment. Roshi Bernie talks about attachment in relation to meditative states and in relation to preferences and opinions. He also considers how to be in relationship with those of differing opini…
00:38:15 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Making Peace—The World as One Body 2012 (Part 1 of 8)
Going out into the world. Roshi Bernie Glassman introduces Zen Peacemaker tenets by sharing the story of watching his daughter, son-in-law, and newborn son interact. He fields a question from an audi…
00:40:10 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 6 of 6)
Episode Description: Bearing witness to yourself. Bernie answers more questions on socially engaged Buddhism, and talks about his Street Retreat practice, Zen Peacemakers, and the waiting room of the…
01:07:35 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 5 of 6)
Episode Description: That’s life! “My boss, Shakyamuni Buddha, said everything is change, but we don’t necessarily want it, so we have these expectations and out of that comes, guess what? Suffering!…
00:48:56 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 4 of 6)
Episode Description: Hope and expectations. Bernie invites an audience member to speak about her own path of service and how to overcome the well-meaning help we get. He talks about the origins of Gr…
01:01:53 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 3 of 6)
Episode Description: Get out of the way. Another way to define bearing witness, Bernie says, is to get out of the way, and reminds us that zazen is a major practice for letting go. He reflects on the…
00:32:41 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 2 of 6)
Episode Description: The depth of enlightenment. Roshi Bernie answers some of the questions, ideas, thoughts, and doubts from last night’s discussion. Dissecting Kōbōdaishi’s quote, “The way you can …
01:21:01 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 1 of 6)
Episode Description: What’s the deal here? In the first of this six-part workshop, Bernie Glassman asks, What does spirituality bring to social engagement? And, in particular, what does the experienc…
00:58:19 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
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