Dumbo Feather editor-in-chief Berry Liberman, sits with one of the world’s leading teachers of mindfulness meditation – Sylvia Boorstein.
Sylvia is one of the people who literally brought Buddhism to the West in the 1970s, and like many of them is Jewish. She is a mother, a grandmother, a psychotherapist, and a founding teacher of Spirit Rock, a world-renowned Buddhist meditation centre in Woodacre, California.
The titles of Sylvia’s books are telling of her good humour and simple wisdom, among them including “Happiness is an inside job,” "Road Sage," "It’s Easier than you think," “That’s funny, You Don’t look Buddhist,” and our favourite, “Don’t just do something, sit there.”
It was an honour for us to have this time with Sylvia, and to hear her reflections and hopes in the latter stages of her life.
Sylvia features in our "Beyond Ego" issue of Dumbo Feather magazine, if you’re not already a subscriber, go to dumbofeather.com and soak up more goodness like this in print.
