3 min
Interview
What Is Zen?
Three minutes, answered without a single technical term.
About the teacher
Bernie Glassman
American Zen teacher (1939–2018), trained as an aeronautical engineer and a dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi. He founded the Zen Peacemakers, built the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers on open hiring so that anyone could get work, and held street retreats in which practitioners live homeless for days. He treated the street as the zendo.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
37 min
Interview
Sixty Years of Practice
Looking back over six decades, from engineering drawings to Yonkers.
108 min
Talk
Making Peace: The World as One Body
Nearly two hours at Naropa on treating society as a single body, which is where the bakery and the street retreats came from.
Path
The wider context.
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Zazen & everyday awareness
Zen
Direct meditative practice, zazen and everyday awareness in traditions rooted in Chinese Chan and its later forms.
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