Bo Lozoff of Human Kindness Foundation Educates prisoners
Bo Lozoff, a teacher and singer who has visited more than eleven-hundred U.S. prisons, tries to uplift inmates by teaching that even while incaracerated, a person can become free.
- (1888PressRelease) August 16, 2011 - Not physically liberated while confined behind bars, but inwardly free -- by focusing on their true human potential. He's witnessed how people who've committed horrible crimes can truly change. Since the 1970s, this has been the vision of the Prison-Ashram Project that Bo founded with the author and teacher Ram Dass. More than eleven-hundred prison visits later, he still travels the United States reaching out to inmates.
Hi book, "We're All Doing Time" is often called "The Convict's Bible." This book is also relevant and important to any spiritual seeker. Interfaith wisdom, divided into 3 sections: The Big View describes Bo and Sita Lozoff's life of activism and spiritual exploration. Getting Free is a section of detailed instruction in classic spiritual practices. Dear Bo is correspondence between Bo and dozens of the inmates he has challenged, encouraged, and loved. This is an amazing book, which has moved people to great extremes. It has been translated into 5 languages.
He's also the author of Lineage and Other Stories and Just Another Spiritual Book. (All three are published by the Human Kindness Foundation.) Lozoff's most recent book, It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice (Viking), is a practical guide to a happier and more fulfilled existence. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said of it, "Anyone of any faith, or none, can benefit from the universal ideas and realistic advice in this book."
Bo and Sita Lozoff have received numerous humanitarian awards, including the Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute for Noetic Sciences. Bo was given an honorary doctorate by the Chicago Theological Society, one of the oldest divinity schools in the nation.
For more info:
http://www.bolozoff.com
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