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Francisco Lugoviña Home Page - SHOSHIN (Beginner's Mind)

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If you reached this page by clicking a link from the Zen Peacemaker's Order Page, then you already know that I am involved with the Peacemaker Community ...

If your reached here by some other means, let me tell you about myself , the Peacemaker Community..and the Zen Peacemaker Order

My Name is Francisco Lugoviña, Paco to my friends.  I was born in Puerto Rico and came to live in the South Bronx when I was just a child. The music you hear is a Danza and native to Puerto Rico.

Shortly after graduating from Iona College, I promised myself that I would use my talents to help my community obtain a better life through career and economic development, and most important, through self realization. As President and founder of Principle Centered Associates, Inc., a company dedicated to providing leadership training to the business, education, government and not-for-profit sectors, my work has taken me from the sidewalks of the South Bronx, to the boardrooms of the Fortune 500 Corporations. Along my journey, I have meet many people, and the one thing we all share is a need for connectedness.

In 1996, I became involved in the Peacemaker Community, an interfaith network of people and organizations practicing a vision of peace through study, spiritual practice, and social action. We are a worldwide community of lay people and clergy, from different cultures and religious traditions, dedicated to making peace in our own lives and in the world around us. We subscribe to the Four Commitments agreed upon by representatives of 200 religions at the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1993.

I commit myself to a culture of nonviolence and reverence for life;
I commit myself to a culture of solidarity and a just economic order;
I commit myself to a culture of tolerance and a life based on truthfulness; and
I commit myself to a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women.

Recognizing that we are interdependent and that each act of peacemaking touches all of us, we offer and support spiritually-based peacemaking models and programs based on the following Core Tenets:

Not-knowing, thereby giving up fixed ideas about ourselves and the universe;
Bearing witness to the joy and suffering of the world; and
Healing ourselves and others.

These Commitments and Core Tenets serve as the foundation for The Community's work. They underlie our commitment to broad-based inclusivity, service, interfaith celebrations and communion, and to a lifelong peacemaking path that integrates work, training, and practice. The Mission Statement of the Peacemaker Community is constantly being revisited to ensure its relevancy.

Shambhala Sun, a Zen Magazine, has just published a piece that I wrote. Join me in a Meeting in the darkness .

Join me on my journey.

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