Bo Lozoff started the Prison Ashram Project with Ram Dass in 1973, which has grown into the largest interfaith prison ministry in the world. Bo’s book, We’re All Doing Time, now in its 17th printing, is widely referred to as “the convicts’ bible” and was named by Village Voice as “one of the ten books everyone in the world should read.”
For over 30 years Bo has traveled around the world giving talks in thousands of prisons, churches, and community centers. His many roles include author, spiritual teacher, friend, counselor, musician, and modern day mystic.
In this interview Bo talks about the catalysts in his spiritual journey, the history of the Prison Ashram Project, a critique of today’s spiritual market place, and dying into service.
For more information on the work of Bo, his wife Sita, and the Human Kindness Foundation, please visit www.humankindness.org
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Very powerful. Honest. Lucid.
I am a physician working in a prison and I am a spiritual seeker. This great interview motivated me to think that I can do more to the inmates than being their physician. I would like to meet Mr. Bo Lozoff in near future. Thank you very much.
Prasad
Simple truth, profoundly stated.
Thank you
Enjoyed your concert at SPACE ( April 11,2009). Please keep us informed re: your upcoming performances.
Mahalo,
Linn
Thank you for posting this great interview with Bo Lozoff. Hanuman has been teaching me for about two years now, and this wonderful Spiritual teacher, (along with his wife and partner Sita), exemplifies the life of service of Hanuman, deeply inspiring my life. He has changed the lives of uncountable thousands of people in and out of prisons all over the world.
Jai Sita Ram!
Thank you for this beautiful talk by Bo Lozoff. He speaks from such a recognizable place of humanity and practicality, as well as from the wisdom of having touched the transcendent. It’s a powerful combination!
I’m a middle aged woman who just happened to pick “We’re All Doing Time” off of the library shelf in West Vancouver, BC Canada and it has started a change in me that was long overdue having misspent a lot of time with posers pretending to be something they aren’t and drinking themselves into a pseudo happy state. I guess I was one of them; selfish and unaware. Bo’s down to earth wisdom reached a part of me that knew there was more to life than this. I have been reading the newsletters on humankindness.org and have been inspired by the stories and letters from people in the worst situations who have attained enlightenment. Thank you for allowing access to this interview – it is the only time I have heard Bo speak. Bo – you are reaching people who needed help so badly they didn’t even know it; people living soul less lives who look like they have it all but are only grasping at air.
There is another side to this story; I was very impressed with Bo, Sita, and the Human Kindness Foundation when all I knew was what I read in their material. However I learned from personal experience and from those of my friends that Bo has serious personal problems with anger, sexual misconduct, and a formidable power trip. He tried to set up a cult where he would be the center of attention, devotion, and obedience; anyone objecting would be abused with his anger and the foulest of language; I know this as he directed this at me in letters. After a sexual scandal the ashram scene fell apart and Bo left the state.
I recommend reading
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-two-faces-of-bo-lozoff/Content?oid=1210498
for the Independent Weekly article of 2008.