Barbara and Roland Wegmueller came over from Switzerland to lead a Zen Peacemakers Circle Dharmaholder Ceremony on the afternoon of Oct 26th. Barbara and Roland are Zen teachers in the lineage of Bernie Glassman, and the main coordinators for the Zen Peacemaker Circles in Europe.
The role of Circle Dharmaholder is to hold the vision of Zen practice and share it wiith circles of peers training together. Steve Hart and Chris Zang Starbuck were presented with lovely handmade Dharmaholder scarves at the end of a short ceremony of making vows.
The afternoon began with lunch in the Roman Amphitheatre, where we sometimes meet to begin our circles. Then we went to the ruins of the old Norman cathedral, where Roland led some zazen beneath the open sky. After the ceremony we walked down by the River Dee and made a pilgrimage to the Roman shrine of Minerva, Goddess of wisdom still carved into a rock. Barbara led us in the Buddhist Prajnaparamita wisdom chant Gate Gate Paragate Parasmgate Bodhi Svaha.
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