013: Filmmaker and Cultural Anthropologist Jenny Phillips on the Wisdom Found Behind (and Beyond) Prison Bars

The Dhamma Brothers have taken their own passage to India and discovered a practice of meditation that guides them down their inner path to freedom. – John Lewis, U.S. Congressman “Jenny Phillips is a cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, writer and psychiatric nurse. She has a psychotherapy practice in Concord, MA, specializing in crisis intervention, family and marriage therapy, behavioral medicine, and mindfulness training. In 2002, working with the Alabama DOC, Jenny successfully brought a Vipassana meditation program inside a maximum-security prison in Alabama. In 2008, Phillips produced and directed a documentary film, The Dhamma Brothers, with a national theatrical release and …

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012: Your Teacher’s Teacher: Mirka Knaster on the Dharma, Quirks and Stories of Munindra (Teacher of Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Kamala Masters and many more)

Munindra was one of the most important teachers for Westerners in the establishment of Vipassana and mindfulness meditation. – Jack Kornfield “Mirka Knaster is the author of Living This Life Fully: Stories and Teachings of Munindra, a book about the Bengali meditation master who was a grandfather of the vipassana/mindfulness movement in the West and who taught many of today’s most prominent Western dharma teachers. She interviewed nearly 200 people around the world for their down-to-earth yet inspiring poignant and humorous remembrances of someone who embodied the qualities of awakening and who believed it was possible for all of us …

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011: Trailblazing in Academia, David Germano on the Contemplative Sciences

David Germano is a man who holds many posts at the University of Virginia. Germano’s astute and focused work related to the integration of contemplation into all facets of life makes him an easy conversation partner on Contemplify. His deep attention to the contemplative sciences is astounding to witness and damn near impossible to keep pace with. Be sure to check out the U.Va.’s Contemplative Sciences Center to hear what he, his team and his students are engaged in. “David Germano has taught and researched Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia since 1992. U.Va.’s Tibetan Studies program is the …

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