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Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars

Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars


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Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive, silent 10-day program inside the walls of a corrections facility--many serving life sentences without parole--detail the range of their experiences, the depth of their understanding of the Buddha's teachings gained by direct experience, and their setbacks and successes. During the Vipassana meditation program, they face the past and their miseries and emerge with a sense of peace and purpose. This compelling story shows the capacity for commitment, self-examination, renewal, and hope within a dismal penal system and a wider culture that demonizes prisoners.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTSForeword ... 5The Journey Inside: Bringing Wisdom to a Prison . . 7Bringing Vipassana to Donaldson Prison ... 12Setting Up the Vipassana Retreat ...19Moving Inside ... 21The Anapana and Vipassana Course ...26The Dhamma Brothers ...30Benjamin OB Oryang ... 30James George ... 32Wayne Finch ... 33Leon Kennedy ... 35Edward Johnson ...37Larry Singletary ... 42Omar Rahman ...44John Johnson ... 47Charles Ice ... 48Grady Bankhead ... 50Rick Smith ...51Johnny Mack Young ... 53Willie Carroll ...54Torrence Barton ... 55Letters from the Dhamma Brothers ... 57Address to Inmate Students by S. N. Goenka . .. 168Conclusion ... 172Glossary ... 178About Vipassana ... 180Resources ... 186About the Author ...187

Review :
"Illuminating." School Library Journal, "[An] extraordinarily telling and inspiring book, its contents a witness to the human connection achieved... Jenny Phillips manages to enable the far off, the imprisoned, to become the reader's informants and teachers." Robert Coles, from the book's foreword. "The stories ring with the truth and power of their experiences and offers hope for renewal and rehabilitation within a dismal punishment-oriented correctional system. Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking, "An absolutely compelling story of an astonishing treatment program with prison inmates that, against all odds, actually worked... Should reshape the ideas of all of us, policy makers and citizens alike." Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author, No Ordinary Time, "One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health ... Points to an effective reentry program for even the most serious offenders." Scott Harshbarger, former Attorney General, Massachusetts; 30 years as a public prosecutor, defender and civil rights lawyer


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781928706724
  • Publisher: Pariyatti Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pariyatti Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Meditation Behind Bars
  • ISBN-10: 192870672X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 240


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