#  Video: Making Space for Meditation—Reflections on Practice in an Academic Setting 

 





April 29, 2013

 

 

This panel discussion, the last of the semester in the CSWR series Intellectual Worlds of Meditation, featured four HDS students: Leslie Hubbard, a first year MTS Buddhist studies student, former Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, and leader of the Boston Wake Up meditation group; Benjamin Van Arnam, a first year MTS student studying Buddhism and philosophy; Funlayo E. Z. Wood, a third year doctoral student in African and African American Studies with a primary field in Religion, and creator of Orisa-Focal (tm) Meditation, a guided practice that uses concepts and imagery of the Yoruba Ifa-Orisa Tradition; and Dave Woessner, a third year MDiv student at HDS, nominee for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church, and teacher of Samatha meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.



 



 

 

 



 

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