Paths of Practice: Conversations on Journeys into Buddhism
Jeremy David Engels, Ph.D., is the Liberal Arts professor of Communication and Ethics at Penn State University. He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga and since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh. He is an award-winning teacher and scholar, and has published numerous books and articles about democracy, community building, deliberation, and peace. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife Anna run a community yoga and meditation studio called Yoga Lab. Jeremy joyfully joins the Plum Village Beloved Community in practicing mindfulness as “the practice of peace.”
For more information about Jeremy and other resources, please visit the following links:
https://jeremydavidengels.com/
https://zenandtheartofdemocracy.substack.com/
https://www.parallax.org/product/on-mindful-democracy/
https://www.statecollegeyogalab.com/
We discussed:
*The Walk for Peace, deliberation, and the need for and the impact of Beloved Community
*Tech awareness, teaching mindfulness to university students, and the invitation to be our own anthropologist
*Interdependence, a Buddhist pilgrimage in India, and the miracle of our life
*Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam, and how to go about embracing our mud
*And the importance of remembering that we are not alone on the Buddhist path and to exercise kindness to ourselves