Marianne is one of the best teachers I’ve experienced and I’ve been a teacher for many years. -Brene Brown Marianne Elliot is a human rights advocate, writer, runner and yoga teacher. She served in the United Nations mission in Afghanistan with a focus on human rights and gender issues, helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste and worked as Policy Advisor for Oxfam. She’s written a book about doing good and being well in Afghanistan (Zen Under Fire, Penguin, 2013) and writes for the Huffington Post. (Adapted from marianne-elliott.com) In this episode, Marianne shares reflections …
Author: Swanson
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 …
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 …
You must be logged in to post a comment.