Bridging Heaven & Earth Show # 120 with Bernie Glassman and Shelley Flanders

Bernie is a key figure in American Buddhism, and as a Zen Master for over 40 years, he has dedicated himself to tirelessly relieving the suffering of his fellow man. He is renowned for his teachings and for his in-the-trenches work to relieve the suffering of the homeless, the addicted, and the people with AIDS in New York City. In 1994, Bernie founded the Peacemaker Community, a new Zen order to address social problems worldwide. The Peacemaker Community is based upon three core tenets of Bernie Glassman's teaching. Entering a state of "not knowing" and giving up fixed ideas about oneself and the universe; bearing witness to the joy and suffering of the world; and healing oneself and the universe.

Shelley was born in New York on May 8, 1948 to creative and loving parents who named her after the poet, Percy Bysch Shelley and gave her a dog named Keats when she was five. It was at about that same age when Shelley decided that something a great deal larger than she could understand fully at the time, was driving her small human frame.

After graduating college, with more questions than answers, Shelley traveled to India where she spent 8 years. From the moment she arrived in New Delhi, Shelley knew that her spirit had come home. She began to have experiences that vividly reminded her the reason for her existence, past, present and future, which culminated under a tree in Goa, India. Where like, Siddhartha, she too, received enlightenment.

Returning to the United States and to Santa Barbara, California, she joined forces with Allan in 1998 and began dedicating herself to helping him further develop Bridging Heaven & Earth as a vehicle for expansion and awareness--through the education of the Oneness of all life. Shelley is the Operating Director of The Bridging Heaven & Earth Foundation; a nonprofit, 501(C)3, educational organization. The goal of the Foundation is to support and expand the production and distribution of the Bridging Heaven & Earth television show and in addition, to establish The Bridging Heaven & Earth Communication and Retreat Center.

Bridging's website is:

http://www.HeavenToEarth.com

Bridging's International Healing Art Project website is:

http://www.HeavenToEarthArt.com

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[anomistars]

I love Bridging Heaven & Earth. All the best Allan - from Australia, & Thx.

[bridgingheaven]

@anomistars

wonderful....so glad you like the show.....thanks for commenting....we really appreciate it.....

and if you haven’t already done so, you also might want to subscribe to the bridging videos as there are many already available that you'd really like and more on the way.....

thanks again.....

love and blessings.....bh&e....

[bridgingheaven]

so glad you liked the show....thanks for commenting.....you might want to subscribe to the bridging videos as there are many more you might really like already available and more on the way.....thanks again.....love and blessings....bh&e.....

[Cutedervish]

hi thank you this is very nice open lecture-talk. )