Posts from Tricycle's editors on Burma and other Buddhist issues of the day.

Sylvia Boorstein has been teaching since 1985 and teaches both vipassana and metta meditation. She is a psychotherapist, wife, mother, and grandmother who is particularly interested in seeing daily life as practice. Her books include It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness; Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat; That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist; Pay Attention for Goodness' Sake: The Buddhist Path of Kindness; and Happiness Is an Inside Job.

Gregory Kramer, co-founder and president of the Metta Foundation, has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. he is the author of Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom.

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