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Bernie Glassman

Bernie Glassman (born January 18, 1939) is an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980. In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacemaker Order with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes. Glassman is a Dharma successor of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi, and has to date given inka and Dharma transmission to several people.

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When we go. . . to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

Bears, Clothes, Food, Offering, Witness

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

Avoid, Fear, Needs, Order, Tendency, Whole

I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Agree, Looks, Person, Pockets, Taking, Talking

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Idea, Ideas, Issues, Problems, Real

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

Enlightenment, Merely, Practice, Practices, Purpose

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Attached, Important, May, Relatively, Rest Of Life, Thing

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

Facilitate, Growth, Habitually, Transformation, Way, Ways

Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Laugh, Laughing, Look, Looks, Mirror, Mirrors

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Anger, Determination, Left, Selfishness

Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there's no problem. The reason we get overwhelmed is that we're attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal. If we weren't attached we wouldn't be overwhelmed. It's endless. And we just take one step after the next

Compassion, Enabling, Endless, Goal, Reason, Steps

I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.

Business, Government, Honor, Smaller, Together, Together We Can

Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.

Fall, Rock, Rocks, Way, White, Wind

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning. . . look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Laugh, Laughter, Mirror, Morning, Wisdom

Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.

Book, Down, Order, Reading, Right

whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

Change, Judgment, Make, Making, Subjective

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

Comic, Philosopher, Said, Take