Tag Archive for ‘human kindness foundation’
Human Kindness Foundation and Prison-Ashram Project
In 1973 a spiritual teacher named Ram Dass and I got together and talked about helping prisoners to use their time for spiritual growth. It was a quiet chat, no solemn pronouncements or bolts of lightning, no press releases or fund-raising campaigns. We just sat together on the lawn of the ashram where Sita and [...]
11/1/10 4:24 PM
The Two Questions
A friend of mine got out of prison on the last day of 1997. He was thirty-seven years old and had been in prison since he was nineteen. Because he was on a 90-year sentence, he had spent his whole prison time in one old maximum-security facility in mid-Florida which has a very tough reputation. [...]
10/15/10 4:14 PM
Microcosm & Macrocosm
Dear Family, There are times in our lives when our problems seem so overwhelming we don’t have any idea what to do next in any significant way – how to change our lives, how to address the biggest problems, how to heal the damage between us and our loved ones, how to motivate ourselves to [...]
09/10/10 1:28 PM
God is Real
From a talk given by Bo Lozoff at a meditation center in Tallahassee, FL, December 11, 2005. I see meetings like this as just this very classic, traditional situation that’s been going on since the beginning of time: there’s a world that’s gone mad, and small pockets of people meeting here and there to talk [...]
02/18/10 8:16 PM
Bo Lozoff: Prisoners and Spiritual Life
Bo Lozoff co-founded the Prison Ashram Project with Ram Dass and the Human Kindness Foundation. In this interview Bo talks about three surprising realities of U.S. society and how the incarcerated are some of the most hungry and ready for genuine spiritual transformation.
08/27/09 6:08 PM
Bo Lozoff: Bliss Interrupted
Bo Lozoff co-founded the Prison Ashram Project and the Human Kindness Foundation. In this interview Bo talks about activism in the context of injustice and spiritual life.
08/27/09 6:05 PM
Interview with Bo Lozoff
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 [...]
10/11/08 7:19 PM
iHanuman Newsletter October 2008
Namaste! During the last month we’ve encountered many yogis, including several of us here at iHanuman, getting actively involved in the upcoming presidential election. From volunteering at non-partisan voter registration drives to community canvassing for our preferred candidates, we get to experience the incredible opportunities for growth as well as the many pitfalls of trying [...]
10/6/08 3:18 PM
