Sitting Inside Buddhist Practice In America S Prisons

Author : Scott Whitney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780971814301

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Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in America's Prisons by Scott Whitney Pdf

The book has two audiences: prison inmates who want to start practicing Buddhism and volunteers from American sanghas who want to work with prison dharma groups. The book discusses the basics of meditation, compassion and precept practice within the correctional facility context. Whitney discusses some of the history of Buddhist involvement in American prisons as well as the history of constitutional interpretations of religious freedom as applied to inmates. The book is meant to be as practical as possible and it emphasizes Buddhism in action - through the precepts, peacemaking and sangha building inside and out.

Author : Calvin Malone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458783837

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Razor-Wire Dharm by Calvin Malone Pdf

Calvin Malone has plenty to teach us all about ideas that we rarely associate with the penal system; Dignity. Compassion. Freedom behind bars. He speaks from experience; Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence himself. Razor-Wire Dharma is his eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how he found Buddhism-and real, transformative meaning for his life-despite being in one of the world's harshest environments. Some of his stories are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do. Malone is living it, and in the unlikeliest of places. For him, the choice of staying true to his principles often requires that he quite literally jeopardize his life, safety, and the few small comforts available to him to try to do what's right. Razor-Wire Dharma makes it clear that if Calvin can do what's right in jail, he can do it anywhere. What's more, it proves that we can, too.

Author : Calvin Malone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861719549

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Razor-Wire Dharma by Calvin Malone Pdf

Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.

Author : Cuong Lu
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781682191866

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The Buddha in Jail by Cuong Lu Pdf

This is a book of 52 vignettes—stories and teachings about Cuong Lu’s six years as a prison chaplain. Lu shares insights into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. As a prison chaplain, Cuong discovered that when the men inside allowed themselves to feel their pain—including remorse from committing crimes—knowing and feeling the truth became a source of strength for them. And when the inmates felt listened to, understood, and not judged, it transformed their sense of who they are, and as a result changed their attitudes and their behavior. This book is not just about the prisoners. It’s about all of us. We’re each caught in distorted and limiting ideas of ourselves. We don’t believe freedom and happiness are attainable. But when we come to believe in ourselves, we discover the freedom and happiness already within. Cuong Lu, Buddhist teacher, scholar, and writer, was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1968. He majored in East Asian studies at the University of Leiden, and in 1993 was ordained a monk at Plum Village in France under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, he was recognized as a teacher in the Lieu Quan line of the Linji School of Zen Buddhism. In 2015, he received a master’s degree in Buddhist Spiritual Care at Vrije University in Amsterdam. Lu is the founder of Mind Only School, in Gouda, the Netherlands, where he teaches Buddhist philosophy and psychology, specializing in Yogachara Buddhism combined with the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) School of Nagarjuna.

Author : Calvin Malone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861715633

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Razor-Wire Dharma by Calvin Malone Pdf

For Calvin Malone, staying true to his principles of altruism, compassion, and nonharming often requires he quite literally jeopardize life, limb, and the few small comforts available to him in order to do what's right. Calvin is nearing the end of a twenty-year prison sentence; he's also a practicing Buddhist. And remarkably, it was in prison that Calvin learned about Buddhism.

Author : John S. Harding,Alexander Soucy,Victor Sōgen Hori
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773590496

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Flowers on the Rock by John S. Harding,Alexander Soucy,Victor Sōgen Hori Pdf

When Sasaki Sokei-an founded his First Zen Institute of North America in 1930 he suggested that bringing Zen Buddhism to America was like "holding a lotus against a rock and waiting for it to set down roots." Today, Buddhism is part of the cultural and religious mainstream. Flowers on the Rock examines the dramatic growth of Buddhism in Canada and questions some of the underlying assumptions about how this tradition has changed in the West. Using historical, ethnographic, and biographical approaches, contributors illuminate local expressions of Buddhism found throughout Canada and relate the growth of Buddhism in Canada to global networks. A global perspective allows the volume to overcome the stereotype that Asia and the West are in opposition to each other and recognizes the continuities between Buddhist movements in Asia and the West that are shaped by the same influences of modernity and globalization. Flowers on the Rock studies the fascinating and ingenious changes, inflections, and adaptations that Buddhists make when they set down roots in a local culture. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Buddhism, religious life in Canada, and the broader issues of multiculturalism and immigration. Contributors include Michihiro Ama (University of Alaska), D. Mitra Barua (University of Saskatchewan), Paul Crowe (Simon Fraser University), Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (University of Iowa), Mavis Fenn (University of Waterloo), Kory Goldberg (Champlain College), Sarah F. Haynes (Western Illinois University), Jackie Larm (University of Edinburgh), Paul McIvor (independent), James Placzek (University of British Columbia), and Angela Sumegi (Carleton University).

Author : Charles L. Cohen,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199931903

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Gods in America by Charles L. Cohen,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

Religous pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.

Author : Stephen John Hartnett,Eleanor Novek,Jennifer K. Wood
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094965

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Working for Justice by Stephen John Hartnett,Eleanor Novek,Jennifer K. Wood Pdf

This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism. Through life-changing programs in a dozen states (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin), PCARE works with prisoners, in prisons, and in communities to reclaim justice from the prison-industrial complex. Based on years of pragmatic activism and engaged teaching, the materials in this volume present a sweeping inventory of how communities and individuals both within and outside of prisons are marshaling the arts, education, and activism to reduce crime and enhance citizenship. Documenting hands-on case studies that emphasize educational initiatives, successful prison-based programs, and activist-oriented analysis, Working for Justice provides readers with real-world answers based on years of pragmatic activism and engaged teaching. Contributors are David Coogan, Craig Lee Engstrom, Jeralyn Faris, Stephen John Hartnett, Edward A. Hinck, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, Bryan J. McCann, Nikki H. Nichols, Eleanor Novek, Brittany L. Peterson, Jonathan Shailor, Rachel A. Smith, Derrick L. Williams, Lesley A. Withers, Jennifer K. Wood, and Bill Yousman.

Author : Ruth T. Zaplin
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0763741159

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Female Offenders by Ruth T. Zaplin Pdf

The number of female offenders in the United States is skyrocketing. Our "tough on crime" approach puts a female offender behind bars, but doesn't consider the factors eading to her incarceration. Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions, Second Edition proposes an alternative, one that truly addresses the needs of female offenders and the root issues connected to their maladaptive behaviors, trauma histories, and mental health problems. By focusing on these root issues, this text prepares future correctional managers and supervisors to rehabilitate and empower female offenders to reenter society in a meaningful and productive way.The Second Edition includes chapters written by experts in the field that discuss the diversity of issues facing female offenders in our culture from a variety of perspectives. Grounded in the relevant research and literature, this book blends theory with practice by presenting theories on the rehabilitation of female offenders alongside program models and effective strategies for reentry into society.

Author : Elizabeth R. Mackenzie, PhD,Birgit Rakel, MD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826138064

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults by Elizabeth R. Mackenzie, PhD,Birgit Rakel, MD Pdf

The field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is expected to grow tremendously in the next few years. In addition to an increase in the general population, the baby-boomer generation is quickly entering retirement and will likely take advantage of CAM increasingly as it ages. Although CAM research as applied to aging is just beginning and health professionals receive no special training in CAM and aging, the United States population still continues to employ it. For diagnoses that accompany aging such as cancer, neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, and physical disabilities, CAM has often been used in addition to or in place of unsuccessful conventional methods of treatment. This new and up-to-the-minute compendium of reliable and authoritative information on complementary and alternative therapies seeks to provide information that older adults may use as they seek to improve their health and quality of life. Covering dietary means; physical, mental, and spiritual methods of treatment; and various types of therapies, this handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on complementary and alternative medicine available today. Each chapter or article includes: Brief definition of modality Anecdotal reports of usefulness Discussion of scientific evidence for and against modality List of resources that reader can use to find further information Examples of therapies covered include: Art & Music Massage Acupuncture Meditation Homeopathy Ayurveda Aromatherapy

Author : Andreas Vossler,Catriona Havard,Graham Pike,Meg-John Barker,Bianca Raabe
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781473968387

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Mad or Bad?: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology by Andreas Vossler,Catriona Havard,Graham Pike,Meg-John Barker,Bianca Raabe Pdf

A cutting-edge text that provides a comprehensive introduction to mental health problems and criminal behaviour, this book explores the link between mental health and criminality and considers the most common and effective therapeutic approaches for working with offenders and victims of crime. · Part 1 explores the predominant tensions between forensic and therapeutic agendas; · Part 2 considers how criminal and ‘insane’ identities and careers may be considered gendered, classed, culturally and age-dependent experiences, and be related to power and oppression; · Part 3 examines issues around sex and sexuality in forensic and therapeutic settings; · Part 4 introduces a range of therapeutic approaches for working with offenders and victims of crime; · Part 5 covers forensic and therapeutic practices, including programmes for the prevention of both mental health issues and offending. Edited by an expert team from the Open University and written by a broad range of contributors, this book draws on a wealth of experience in this popular subject area. It will be a key text for students of forensic psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, and for health and social care professionals working in therapeutic and forensic settings.

Author : Milton Scarborough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441108968

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Comparative Theories of Nonduality by Milton Scarborough Pdf

It is a commonplace that while Asia is nondualistic, the West, because of its uncritical reliance on Greek-derived intellectual standards, is dualistic. Dualism is a deep-seated habit of thinking and acting in all spheres of life through the prism of binary opposites leads to paralyzing practical and theoretical difficulties. Asia can provide no assistance for the foreseeable future because the West finds Asian nondualism, especially that of Mahayana Buddhism, too alien and nihilistic. On the other hand, postmodern thought, which purports to deliver us from the dualisms embedded in modernity, turns out to be merely a pseudo-postmodernism. This book's novel idea is that the West already contains within one of its more marginalized roots, that of ancient Hebrew culture, a pre-philosophical form of nondualism which makes possible a new form of nondualism, one to which the West can subscribe. This new nondualism, inspired by Buddhism but not identical to it, is an epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, and praxical middle way both for the West and also between East and West.

Author : John Douthwaite,Ulrike Tabbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108471008

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The Linguistics of Crime by John Douthwaite,Ulrike Tabbert Pdf

This book explores the social and ideological importance of crime, and the great fascination it holds, from a linguistic angle. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres.

Author : Fleet Maull
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Buddhists
ISBN : 9780971814318

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Dharma in Hell by Fleet Maull Pdf

"Prison activist and meditation teacher Fleet Maull shares his journey of transformation and service amidst the anger, violence, darkness and despair of a maximum security federal prison"--Back cover.

Author : John Speer
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church work with prisoners
ISBN : 9781558965386

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Uncommon Community by John Speer Pdf