The skills of a mature Vipassana meditation practice come to meet Jewish contemplative Practice
This site is in the process of being developed for myself and folks who share my interests. A good number of these pieces are still in need of editing and reworking. My apologies ahead of time.
Writings and Recordings
About Me
Who knows why a life unfolds the way it does, but this web-site represents the writing and the recordings from the work I have done since I first sat on a meditation pillow at the age of 21.
In 1973, in the usual series of improbable circumstance, I found myself in a Goenka led 30 day silent Vipassana meditation retreat in India. This was followed by a long series of retreats as Insight Meditation became a thing here in the states, as well as a year spent as a student of Tarthang Tulku, cooking at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley in the mid- seventies.
After graduate school, marriage, and 4 children, I began a decades long relationship with R. Jonathan Omer-man, who understood old contemplatives like myself. Jonathan taught me how to enter into Jewish text study and Jewish contemplative practice.
These writing and recordings represent both my Buddhist and Jewish contemplative work that I have done with groups. Obviously, one informs the other.