Sit, Breathe, Bow

Yonathan Dominitz began practicing Insight Meditation in 1997 and has been teaching the dharma since 2002 mainly with Tovana, the largest Buddhist community in Israel. In 2015, inspired by more than 10 years of service as a hospice volunteer, Yonathan co-founded Meditation 1:1 to help cancer patients find and foster inner strength during periods of crisis and uncertainty. He is also the founder of Mindscapes, where he trains and teaches creative thinking to companies worldwide. If you understand Hebrew you can listen to his dharma talks here: https://www.tovana.org.il/en/user/153 If you would like to help support the work of Meditation 1:1, you can find their information here (If you're using Chrome, right click and use the translate page option if you don't speak Hebrew) https://www.yaelsimcha.org.il/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Acharya Fleet Maull, Ph.D came of age in the late sixties and discovered Buddhism as part of the counter-cultural search for authenticity. After college he moved to Peru where he encountered the writings of his first teacher, Trungpa Rimpoche, and the opportunities of living outside the system by smuggling drugs. He moved to Colorado to study with Trungpa becoming one of his primary attendants but continued to live a dual life as a dharma practitioner and drug user and smuggler. This karma caught up to him in 1985 and he faced the choice of going on the run or turning himself in. He turned to Trungpa for advice and he recommended that Fleet face what he had created, which began the pain and chaos of long term incarceration. Again faced with the choice of hunkering down and just trying to get through the time or finding a way to help others with their suffering, Fleet began to develop his practice along the ethical teachings of the precepts. Four years into his fourteen-year sentence, Fleet founded the Prison Mindfulness Institute, which has become a leading provider of mindfulness programming for both prisoners and criminal justice professionals. Today Fleet is a senior lineage teacher in the Shambhala community and is a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He is a senior priest in the Zen Peacemaker community assisting with Auschwitz Bearing Witness retreats and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness retreats. To find out more about Fleet Maull's work visit his websites: https://windhorseseminars.fleetmaull.com/ https://fleetmaull.com/ He also has a website for his new book Radical Responsibility: https://www.radicalresponsibilitybook.com And you can buy Fleet Maull's books at Radical Responsibility https://amzn.to/2LMPw8o Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull https://amzn.to/30oPFCe Fleet Maull is involved with a number of other organizations, many of which we talked about in the podcast. You can find information about there here: Prison Work: www.prisonmindfulness.org Work with Criminal Justice Professionals: www.mindfulpublicsafety.com Training Mindfulness Teachers in Trauma-Informed Approaches: www.engagedmindfulness.org Mindful Justice Advocacy: www.mindfuljustice.org Bearing Witness work: www.zenpeacemakers.org Prison Hospice work: www.npha.org

When The String Is Too Tight

Paul Park, JDPSN first met Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1972 in Los Angeles when he was 14. He began practicing Zen in earnest in 1980 after he got out of the military. He received inka, or permission to teach, from ZM Seung Sahn in 1998. He is the guiding teacher of Dharma Zen Center, a residential Zen Center, in Los Angeles. You can find his practice and retreat schedule by visiting www.DharmaZen.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Lama Willa Miller is the founder and spiritual director of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA, and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after 12 years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. In 2013, she received a doctorate from Harvard University in Religion, and was a Visiting Lecturer in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School from 2013 to 2017. Her academic interests include Tantra and the Body, Buddhism and Ecology, and Buddhist Contemplative Care. Her dharma teachings investigate the body as a door to awakening, natural meditation (mahamudra), and heart-cultivation (lojong). She is the editor, author, and translator, respectively, of three books: The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work, Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You, and Essence of Ambrosia, a 17th-century collection of meditations by Tibetan scholar Taranatha. Her articles and translations have appeared in Lion’s Roar, Buddhadharma, the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the Tibet Journal, and other periodicals. You can find out more about Lama Willa Miller's teaching by visiting: https://www.naturaldharma.org/ and http://www.wonderwellrefuge.org/ Please explore her books: The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You Essence of Ambrosia A Guide to Buddhist Contemplations Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen

Dr. Einav Rosenblit is a dharma teacher and a lecturer of Dance Research and Philosophy of Arts. She earned her Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University with a dissertation called The Original Face of the Body, which presented a Zen reading of contemporary dance. Einav's first book: Too Human Body: Zen Buddhism in the Art of Contemporary Dance was published in 2014. Her second book: Hungry Ghost: Israeli Dance and National Identity was published in September 2018. If you would like to communicate with Einav you can reach her through Facebook https://www.facebook.com/einav.rosenblit.3 Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Ofosu Jones-Quartey aka Born I has been practicing meditation since 1999. In 2002, he met his teacher, Bhante Buddharakkhita, who taught him Vipassana meditation in the Burmese tradition. Ofosu has taught with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. since 2004 and has also served as a guest teacher with the Insight Meditation Society. He is currently a guest teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Ofosu has been working with Minds, Incorporated since 2014 to bring mindfulness practice to schools. Ofosu is also an accomplished hip hop and electronic music artist, performing under the stage name Born I and often weaves his Buddhist philosophy into his music. He currently lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and their four children. You can listen to some of Ofosu's dharma talks on dharmaseed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/480/ You can find out about his retreat schedule with IMCW here: https://imcw.org/Calendar/Event-Calendar/PageId/EventListView/categoryId/28/teacherId/22 And at Spirit Rock here: https://calendar.spiritrock.org/event-speaker/ofosu-jones-quartey/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Kate Lila Wheeler was born in Oklahoma but was raised in four South American countries. She graduated from Rice and Stanford and was, for a time, a lecturer in creative writing at Tufts University. She has written 2 books of her own fiction and edited 3 books for Wisdom Publications—2 collections of talks by her late teacher, Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma; and a collection of Buddhist short fiction. Kate has received prizes, fellowships, and grants for her writing from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute, NEA and others. In April 2019 she was a Buddhist writer in residence at Smith College in Northampton, MA. Kate sat her first meditation retreat in 1977 and was empowered to teach by Spirit Rock and IMS in 2006; more recently her Tibetan lama, Dza Kilung Rinpoche, invited her to offer Vajrayana attitudes in her teaching, and instruct students in his system of seven Relaxed Mind meditations. Presently she serves as one of three coordinators of the 2017-2020 Teacher Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock. You can find out more by visiting her website: http://katewheeler.com/ Or https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/109 which hosts the audio of many of her talks. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Yuval Ido Tal is a poet, meditation teacher, and translator of modern and ancient Buddhist writings. He is the academic director of Psycho-Dharma (The Israeli School for the Buddhist Study of the Mind) and works with therapists studying at the Mindfulness Clinic at the Be’er Sheva Mental Health Center. He has been teaching Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, primarily in the Zen tradition, for 20 years and leads retreat 50 to 60 days of the year. He is the author of 4 books, including Buddhism: a Short Introduction, and has translated 9 more. His most recent work is a translation of and commentary on 130 Tang period poems called My Heart Startled by the Moon, co-authored with Yoav Rappoport. If you speak Hebrew, please visit the Psycho-Dharma website at: https://www.pdharma.co.il And if you don’t feel free to contact Yuval on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/yuvtal Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Myong An Sunim was born to a Chinese family in Malaysia in 1959. He was educated in the United Kingdom, went on to earn an MBA and worked in finance. In 1992, he after hearing a dharma talk by Zen Master Seung Sahn in Hong Kong, he began to practice Zen. He served as one of the Su Bong Zen Monastery’s first directors' group and later become a dharma teacher. After completing four 90-day retreats in Korea he ordained in February of 1997, becoming the last monk to be ordained by Zen Master Seung Sahn. He continued to train in Korea, sitting several additional 90-day retreats. In 2013, he returned to Malaysia and started Zen Space Penang at the Haeng Won Zen Centre in Penang, Malaysia. You can find out more by visiting the Facebook Page for Zen Space Penang at: https://www.facebook.com/haengwonzen Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"