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Jewish Buddhist Dialogue: International Symposium on Jewish Meditation
I will join authors Brenda Shoshana and Judith Linzer for a great discussion of how we have learned to make use of Buddhist wisdom in Jewish practice.
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About the presenters:
Brenda SHOSHANNA
Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D., award-winning author, speaker, playwright, psychologist, long term practitioner of Judaism and Zen. Brenda integrates Eastern and Western principles and offers ways of making them real in our everyday lives. The author of Jewish Dharma (A Guide To The Practice of Judaism and Zen). Her recent Memoir – The Diary of A Zen Mama (Who Turns Into A Jewish Mama) received honors in Book Excellence International Award and Reader’s Favorite Award. Presently, she is preparing an online program on practicing Judaism and Zen. Weekly article, zenbybrenda at brendashoshanna.substack.com. Contact her at topspeaker@yahoo.com.
Judith LINZER
Judith Linzer Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in California. Her book Torah & Dharma: Jewish Seekers in Eastern Religions, based on her dissertation, was published in 1996. She is a long-time Soto Zen practitioner. Her focus these days is writing and performing “solo performance” (one-woman autobiographical shows), being a political activist on the “Jewish left” working for peace and justice for the Palestinians, studying Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. She recently spent four months in Jerusalem and in the West Bank. She found an Israeli Zen group to sit with while she was in Jerusalem.
Rodger KAMENETZ
Rodger Kamenetz is an award-winning poet, author and teacher, best known for The Jew in the Lotus, an international bestselling account of Jewish-Buddhist dialogue that became a PBS documentary and a book acknowledged by the New York Times as a “revered classic.” Among his fifteen other books Stalking Elijah won the National Jewish Book Award and The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s “soul series.” Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University, he founded Natural Dreamwork and leads an international group of practitioners who use dreams for spiritual growth. His latest book, Seeing Into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter explores the power of relishing images in perception, memory and dream as a spiritual practice, tied into the traditional Jewish morning blessing.
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