"thanks terry to answer me.
are you working with prison guards as well?
i will be happy to hear about your program, and to know if you work in different ways or emphasise different subjects than to the prisoners?
thanks again
michal"
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"The Foundation for Active Compassion site, foundationforactivecompassion.org has a link, "FAC in Community" to download the Lojong booklet I put together for the correspondence course plus more detail about the programs we offer in…"
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I will be happy to hear more about your work in prison. we are volunteers in 11 Israeli prisons, and we have 14 groups. we have more 4 groups to prisoners that lives in hostels outside the prison before they can come back to…"
"Hi Randy, we offer a correspondence course to inmates on the Lojong. I put together a small study guide that seems to work pretty well. You can download it at the following site
Let me know if you find it useful.
Terry Conrad, Director, Project…"
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I've been leading a Lojong practice and study group at Oregon's only maximum-security prison for about 9 months. We have between 10 and 20 men attending 2-hour evening sessions twice a month.We are moving slowly. It took us about 6 months to go through the first slogan ( "First, train in the preliminaries"), and another couple of months to go through the two broad post-meditation slogans ("Three objects, three poisons..." and "In all activities..."). We're just now embarking on the two tonglen…See More
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I've been leading a Lojong practice and study group at Oregon's only maximum-security prison for about 9 months. We have between 10 and 20 men attending 2-hour evening sessions twice a month.We are moving slowly. It took us about 6 months to go through the first slogan ( "First, train in the preliminaries"), and another couple of months to go through the two broad post-meditation slogans ("Three objects, three poisons..." and "In all activities..."). We're just now embarking on the two tonglen…See More
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