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I visited the prison in Tehachapi last week as a guest chaplain for some inmates who requested a Buddhist priest to conduct services for them. As the director of the Zen Fellowship of Bakersfield, I was contacted through the Prison Dharma Network, a...

By Travis Newbill Fleet Maull will be hosting the “Waking Up through Service” day of our upcoming Free Online Conference: Awake in the World – October 19-24, 2014. In our daily, weekly, monthly lives, the opportunities for stepping out of our comfort...

Meditation is more complex than some people realized. In 1979, a 35-year-old American Buddhist and MIT-trained molecular biologist was on a two-week meditation retreat when he had a vision of what his life’s work—his “karmic assignment”—would be. While...

How Laurie Anderson Brought Guantánamo to New York by Andy Worthington I’ve been very busy lately — mainly with the launch of Fast For Shaker, a new campaign for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo — and didn’t have the time until...

Fleet Maull founded Prison Dharma Network in 1989 while serving a 14.5 year mandatory-minimum sentence for drug smuggling at a maximum security federal prison medical facility. He led a twice weekly meditation group in the prison chapel for 14 years...