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Title: “Cultivating Inner Peace Through Vipassana Meditation”
Speaker: Paul Fleischman, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Author, and Assistant Teacher of Vipassana
Date: March 27 (Saturday), 2004
Time: 2-4PM (arrive at 1:45PM)
Dr. Fleischman will be available for meeting in person. Dr. Fleischman's books will be on sale.Refreshments served
Location: William James Hall #1, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University
Synopsis:
"Through history and throughout different cultures, people who prioritize the quest for inner peace have recorded a very similar vision of how to increase their sense of peace. So we can say there is a common, universal path towards peace. Today, as the wish for peace becomes more urgent, knowledge of the methods of the great historical exemplars becomes more important and valuable. How did Thoreau, Gandhi, or the Buddha pursue inner peace, and what did they have in common that might be applicable for us today? Many of the core answers have been preserved in the practice of Vipassana Meditation as the Buddha taught it and as it is still practiced by some people today. The author and psychiatrist Paul Fleischman, M.D., who has been a teacher and student of Vipassana for more than half his life, will discuss the common universal path of peace, the biographical details of some of its prominent proponents, and the practice of Vipassana as a compass within the tradition."
Speaker: Paul Fleischman
PAUL FLEISCHMAN, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist, was awarded the Oskar Pfister Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 1993 for his outstanding contributions to the field of psychiatry and religion. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society, he received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and trained in psychiatry at Yale University. Dr. Fleischman has been a psychiatric consultant to hospitals, colleges, and clinics, and has been a Williamson lecturer in medicine and religion at the University of Kansas, special guest lecturer at Smith College Chapel, as well as a keynote speaker at medical schools, psychiatric societies, churches, synagogues, retreat centers, and colleges. His professional papers have appeared in the Yale Review, Nature, Landscape, American Journal of Psychiatry, and numerous other professional journals. He is the author of, The Healing Spirit, Spiritual Aspects of Psychiatric Practice, Karma and Chaos and The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism. His recent focus has been on poetry. Forthcoming collections are: You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things and The Tides of Renewal. A new edition of his book, Cultivating Inner Peace is being published by Pariyatti Press in April, 2004. It includes a new preface written by Professor William Radice, Head of Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and Tagore scholar.
Dr. Fleischman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, children’s book author and teacher Susan Fleischman.
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Venue:
William James Hall #1, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University
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