Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 20 - An Interview with Ben Connelly (The Zen Lamp Series)

 Ben Connelly is a Senior Zen Teacher at Minnesota Zen
Meditation Center. Ben began Zen practice at the Minnesota Zen
Meditation Center in 2001, was ordained in 2009, and received
dharma transmission in 2015. He is currently serving as Program
Administrator. He started teaching Introduction to Meditation in
2005, and since then has taught regularly at the Minnesota Zen
Meditation Center and more recently, at Zen centers across the
US. He teaches secular mindfulness in a variety of contexts such
as police training, addiction recovery groups, and wellness
groups. Ben is also a musician by profession: a singer and
songwriter, guitar teacher, film composer and
multi-instrumentalist. His first book, Inside the Grass Hut,
Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem (Wisdom Publications) was
published in 2014, and his second Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A
Practitioner's Guide, was published by Wisdom in 2016. His latest
book, Mindfulness and Intimacy, came out in February 2019 (Wisdom
Publications).

For more on Ben:
 https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/ben-connelly/


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