November 2010 Blog Posts (9)

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Unconditonal Acceptance

Last night I watched a video on TED talks about an Israel man, Shimon Schocken, who is an avid mountain bike rider. On his rides he would pass by the Juvenile Detention Center, so one… Continue

Added by Susan Austin on November 25, 2010 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

PDN member teaches Tai Chi to kids

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on November 18, 2010 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Tihar Prompts B'desh to Introduce Meditation in Prisons from OutlookIndia.com

by Anisur Rahman/Dhaka | Nov 09, 2010



Bangladesh has introduced a meditation course for its jail inmates with prison officials saying the pioneering work at India's Tihar jail prompted them to launch the service to reform prisoners.



"In the past three years of my experience as the prison chief, I saw same people

are coming back to… Continue

Added by Fleet Maull on November 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The was it is

I have grown a lot in the last few years. I have seen things with in the way i was living and had the time to make my self a better person. I am Zen Buddhist. I am the dread-locked Buddha in the making, but that does not mean i am not still Kat Bastard. I am still the same ass hole I was the last time you saw me, just a bit wiser, and a bit nicer. I seen the way i was living my life in the past was not only hurting me but a lot of the people around me. I lost a lot of the things I love for the… Continue

Added by Kat Dharma on November 16, 2010 at 2:36pm — 5 Comments

Teaching Meditation at Mokotów Prison in Warsaw, Poland

Today, I taught a meditation program at Mokotów Prison, the infamous Warsaw prison where the Gestapo detained, tortured and killed political prisoners during World War II and where the KGP and Polish communists detained, tortured and killed political prisoners from 1945 to 1955. At the street side entrance on a busy street in Warsaw, there is a memorial to the political prisoners killed there by the Nazis and the communists. This is a reflection of the tortured history of Poland,… Continue

Added by Fleet Maull on November 10, 2010 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Prison Work in Poland

With the help of my friends Andrzej Krajeski and Rober Sudol, I led meditation workshop for about 30 prisoners in their 20's and 30's at a large jail outside of Warsaw, Poland near the airport. We talked about how our conditioning drives our behaviors unconsciously until we awaken an awareness that can see the operation of this conditioned mind and not go along with it, awareness that leads to new choices and freedom. We practiced body scan, close placement mindfulness and counting breaths… Continue

Added by Fleet Maull on November 9, 2010 at 12:07pm — No Comments

New Book:: Are We There Yet?

In 1982, writer Peter Muryo Matthiessen, the first dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman, traveled with Glassman to pay respects to the teachers in their lineage, some of the great living Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. What took place was an important meeting of minds representing the past, present, and future of Zen practice, an intimate connection between ancestors and descendants marking a critical point in the Zen journey from the East to the West. This historic event… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 9, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Addition to PDN Board of Spiritual Advisors

This month we are pleased to welcome dharma teacher Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel to our PDN Board of Spiritual Advisors.


Elizabeth has studied and practiced the Buddhadharma for 25 years under the guidance of her teacher and husband, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. She has been intimately involved with Rinpoche’s work in…
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Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 5, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

PRACTICAL YOGA OUTREACH TRAINING TO SERVE INCARCERATED COMMUNITIES





http://www.prisonyoga.com/

NOVEMBER 6-7, 2010





The Prison Yoga Project, Yoga Activist.org, and the Give Back Yoga Foundation are offering a special training for yoga teachers and students interested in working with the incarcerated.



James Fox, the founder and director of PYP, will lead the training drawing on his years of experience teaching yoga and meditation to… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on November 3, 2010 at 1:06pm — No Comments

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