Check out an interview with Fleet Maull on Prison Radio, CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal:



Visit CKUT's program page and click on the drop down option, right above the schedule. Choose "Prison Radio" and click to the right of "Friday… Continue

A new study offers the strongest evidence to date that meditation can change the structure of your brain

I consider myself something of a prospective meditator—meaning that a serious meditation practice is always something I’m about to start… next week.  So for years, I’ve been making a mental note of new…

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Here's a link to a recent talk PDN's Rebecca Foster gave on laughing in prison:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMD1Lk3S_U…

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i have been out of prison for four months and have done so much, and so little. after my release i was staying at my moms house in iowa, two weeks after i got out i was in the ER getting my gal bladder removed. six weeks with my drunk mother was enough to drive me crazy, so my and my mastiff puppy, named Dharma hit the road, we hitch hiked to seattle, saw lots of friends and sudo family who i have not seen since before i got locked up. five days on my Dharma mentors farm in olympia, wa was…

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All of my life, as far back as I can remember, I've been looking for the end of the movie, the part where the end-credits roll. I thought that if I got this girl, got into that school, got this job, built those muscles, did that major life-task... everything would be OK. It'd all be smooth sailing from there. Roll the credits. Buddhism has a word for it: samsara. The endless chase for the end of the film. And the reason it's an endless chase is that none of those things actually are the end of… Continue

At www.theinnervoice84.wordpress.com, Shannon Ross has a blog

dedicated to helping felons stay on a straight path. Too often individuals forget about the pain of prison and the

resolutions they made to change their lives. The noise and colors of freedom simply begin to drown out those memories and promises.

Mr. Ross, currently an inmate, shares his experiences in blog form in

order to remind former inmates about the… Continue

  While I was locked up I developed a type of Tonglen practice that I think is very helpful on a heart level.  I breath in the pain and harm I caused my victims, and breath out my purest well being to those who have harmed or victimized me.  I generate empathy for my victims, and a way to let go and forgive the wrong done to me.  The best way, I feel, to do this is first Go for refuge in the Three Jewels, then I do 10-30 minutes of shamatha and then enter into Tonglen in this manner until I…

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from NPR.org

February 8, 2011. Deep in the Bible Belt, an ancient Eastern practice is taking root in the unlikeliest of places: Alabama's highest security prison.

Behind a double electric fence and layers of locked doorways, Alabama's most violent and mentally unstable…

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Associated Press

Meditation program helps reduce violence AL prison

By JAY REEVES , 02.02.11, 04:33 AM EST… Continue