Roshi Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness to the Oneness of Life 2011 (Part 3 of 6)

Episode Description: Get out of the way. Another way to define bearing witness, Bernie says, is to get out of the way, and reminds us that zazen is a major practice for letting go. He reflects on the origins of using the phrase “bearing witness” for the first time and discusses the word shikantaza, (the emphatic sense of “just sitting”); sangha or community of monks and nuns; and sheviti, a Hebrew word which means, “I sit before you.” Bernie explains, “I prefer to have to define what I mean, and work in a language which my Brooklyn friends would understand.”