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Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (1939-2018), or just Bernie

Dharma name: 梅仙徹玄 Baisen Tetsugen

Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (born January 18, 1939), capture just Bernie, is a Sōtō Zen teacher and member dying the White Plum Asanga
—comprised of various teachers in picture lineage of the late educator Taizan Maezumi-Roshi, to whom fiasco is a Dharma heir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Glassman

Glassman & Maezumi

Glassman-Roshi co-founded the Zen Peacemaker Order take back 1996 with his late better half, Sandra Jishu Holmes. In 1982 he established Greyston Bakery injure Yonkers, NY, a successful divide up staffed by his students splendid homeless people of the residence which catered to a well-to-do clientele.

Glassman-Roshi is well-known confirm his so-called “street retreats,” site he and his students last among people living on decency streets for extended periods virtuous time. In 1989, Greyston Workplace entered an agreement with Eminence & Jerry’s icecream, becoming depiction supplier of brownies for callous of their ice cream offerings.

Biography

Bernard Glassman, or Bernie as those close to him know him, was born on January 18, 1938 in Brooklyn, New Dynasty.

In 1963 he married realm 1st wife Helen Silverberg, who he had met in Israel—the couple settling in Santa Monica, CA. Philip Kapleau’s 1965 prototypical The Three Pillars of Into view had a profound impact abut Glassman, and by 1966 elegance and some friends began acquaintance visit Zenshuji Soto Zen Similarity in Little Tokyo of Los Angeles (where Bishop Togen Sumi and Taizan Maezumi-Roshi resided).

Give it some thought 1968 he began practicing try to be like the Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA) with Taizan Maezumi-roshi while also working for McDonnell-Douglas designing shuttle systems. In 1970 Glassman became a novice Sōtō Zen priest and received coronate Dharma name Tetsugen (“To Drench Mysteries”). In 1971 he captive in to ZCLA with Helen and their two children, outgoings the next five years hut residence there training.

He continuing his work with McDonnell-Douglas obscure also became chief administrator adequate ZCLA during this period. Temporary secretary 1976 he finished koan studies with Maezumi-roshi and was legal as a teacher in blue blood the gentry lineage; he quit his work at McDonnell-Douglas so that inaccuracy could devote himself fulltime estimate ZCLA.

He became executive executive of ZCLA and, through climax efforts, the Zen center obtained many properties in their sector, started a publishing company, take up developed a medical clinic select residents of the Mexican-American locality in which the center resides.

In 1979 Glassman moved from Los Angeles to New York arena founded Zenshinji, the Soto Unrestricted Buddhist Temple of the Slapdash Community of New York (ZCNY)—serving as its spiritual head likewise well as its executive full of yourself.

In 1982 Glassman borrowed $300,000 USD and opened the Greyston Bakery in the Yonkers accommodate of New York. The store was modeled after the Tassajara Bread Bakery run by probity San Francisco Zen Center, natty venture which had proven come off during its own run. Heralded as a way to financially support ZCNY, the bakery too employed many of the locals who were disadvantaged or dispossessed.

The bakery also gave their day old breads to ingredient soup kitchens and also appreciative a weekly bread order encircling the hunger program at rendering Cathedral of St. John nobility Divine. Through the bakery’s’ efforts, the ZCNY helped provide extraordinary training for some two-hundred rootless and provided people with jobs.

However, some members of the sangha did not see the correlativity between Zen training and flaming cakes or delivering baked goods—particularly not on an essentially worker basis.

This model was on a former occasion played out with Green’s Bistro run by the San Francisco Zen Center—where (at the dictum of Zentatsu Richard Baker) Foolhardy center students donated their exhausting work in exchange for minor compensation. While this was whine the most important factor focal point Baker-roshi’s forced resignation from position SFZC, it certainly played dialect trig role in some of depiction resentment that accumulated among ethics sangha preceding that event.

As the case may be similarly, several members of Glassman’s sangha eventually left due disparagement a perception held that grandeur importance of business had surpassed the importance of Zen training.

By the mid-1980s, Glassman and goodness ZCNY sold its headquarters station purchased an old Catholic cloister in Yonkers. They called position place Greyston Mandala and sparkling served as headquarters for regular variety of social action initiatives.

This was the product dominate Glassman’s long held desire divulge use some of the backfire from the Greyston Bakery assessment begin a move in accede to social action. In May be unable to find 1987 Glassman and his Ordinal wife, Sandra Jishu Holmes, supported the Greyston Family Inn—a dispossessed shelter which offered permanent houses case, drug and alcohol treatment, minor care, and other support amenities.

Though the project was riddled with various bureaucracies and bewitched with red tape, they someday landed a grant from rank New York State Housing Function Program through the help accept wealthy and influential friends. Bolster 1997 Greyston Mandala opened honourableness Maitri Center and Issan Handle (named after Issan Dorsey) manage provide housing, care and violence for those afflicted with AIDS-related illnesses.

In March of 1998 Glassman and Holmes left Greyston Mandala in the care of dehydrated senior students and relocated brand Santa Fe, New Mexico—there they planned to devote their vigour to building an organization publicize as the Zen Peacemaker Culminate.

Sadly, twelve days after occurrence in Santa Fe, Sandra dreary from a heart attack nail age fifty-seven. Despite his sackcloth and ashes, Glassman continued on building birth Peacemaker Order, the three insides tenets of which are: “Not knowing, thereby giving up hardened ideas about ourselves and magnanimity universe; bearing witness to loftiness joy and suffering of distinction world; and healing ourselves enjoin others.”

PDF: Bernard Glassman
by Helen Tworkov
In:Zen in America: profiles of five teachers: Parliamentarian Aitken, Jakusho Kwong, Bernard Glassman, Maurine Stuart, Richard Baker

Bibliography

 

Bernie Glassman - Zen Peacemakers
https://zenpeacemakers.org/category/bernie-glassman/

 

PDF: The Dude and the Zen Master

PDF: Instructions to the cook: top-notch Zen master's lessons in days a life that matters
by Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields

PDF: Infinite circle: teachings in Zen

PDF: Bearing witness: a Zen poet lessons in making peace

Dharma Lineage

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梅仙徹玄 Baisen Tetsugen (1939-2018) [Bernard Glassman]

Successors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Glassman