Precepts Weekend in Leicester, Jan 2010


Peacemaking in an Interconnected World

‘Buddhist Ethics for Healing Self and Society’

A Two-Day Workshop with Swiss Peace Activist and Zen Buddhist Preceptor, Barbara Salaam Wegmueller

'Eco House', Leicester - Sat 9th and Sun 10th January 2010, 11am-4pm

Buddhist philosophy teaches that everyone and everything is interconnected, that each action we make has infinite consequences that ripple out across the great network of life, brining happiness and suffering to ourselves and others. From the earliest days of the Buddha in India, up to today’s great teachers, Buddhism has taught ethical guidelines useful for everyone who wants to lead a life of less harm, who want to heal themselves and their environment. This weekend workshop will explore one version of Buddhist ethics- the ‘Sixteen Zen Precepts’ used by the Zen Peacemakers Tradition for socially engaged work around the world.

Barbara Wegmueller is a Preceptor (ethical teacher) in the Zen Peacemakers lineage of Roshi Bernie Glassman. For many years she has helped coordinate an annual multi-faith healing retreat in the grounds of the former prison camp in Auschwitz, she’s taken part in peace initiatives in the Middle East and Europe, and is currently helping to set up a residential house in Switzerland that will serve deprived communities using Zen principles. She’s also a mother of five, a grandmother, and a wife, and is a great example for how Buddhist ethics can be applied in regular family life.

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