Life In The Dharma: Autobiography of John M. Travis as Told to Mary Helen Fein
Authors John M. Travis and Mary Helen Fein
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is the story, in his own words, of how a person who lives with enlightenment comes to be and how he has offered his heart and the depth of the Buddha’s teaching for all beings, to ease suffering and to awaken to compassion and joy. Walk with John through his life story - the story of the places and people and ideas and events that helped him to become who he is.
At some points in his life, he was privileged and wealthy. At other times, he was poor and living on the street: European boarding schools as a child, sleeping on the street in Haight-Ashbury in his teens, on the bus in India with Ram Dass in his twenties. In Asia, John studied with the great Buddhist masters of the time. He and others studied together. And then, they brought Buddhism back to the West. They founded meditation groups all over the United States. John himself started meditation groups in almost every town along the Sierra Foothills, as well Sacramento, Reno and Carson City. He brought the teachings of the Buddha to hundreds of seekers.
"I have led such a blessed life, enjoying the great privilege of teaching the Buddhist Dharma. As a younger person, I never dreamed that I would be a teacher. Everything about schoolwork was difficult for me: lessons, reading, writing, homework. My Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and my dyslexia rose up with these activities and all learning would stop to be replaced by misery. But my mother was a great teacher. And unbeknownst to me, I inherited her ability. It took a long time for me to discover, but I am forever grateful that friends and teachers saw something in me that I could not see myself."
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