Why We Meditate

Tsoknyi Rinpoche, an internationally renowned meditation teacher and Daniel Goleman, New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, have co-created a new approach to traditional meditative teachings and methods.  Tsoknyi found that after decades of teaching traditional methods to Westerners, these methods often did not work.  Tsoknyi wanted to help heal the connection between mind and heart for his students, so he reinvented his approach to nourish the heart-mind interconnections.  We will delve into how these teachings apply emotionally in our daily lives as presented in the new work by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.  

The required book for this class is Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2022, ISBN 9781982178451)

Jerry Webster, Ph. D., (Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland) has taught numerous courses in literature for the U. of MD. and in multiculturalism for Montgomery County Public Schools.  He taught English full-time in public school systems for forty years.  He served as the Shastri, or head teacher, for the Shambhala Buddhist Center in Washington, D.C. for 10 years until he retired in 2020.  He teaches regularly for the D. C. Politics & Prose Bookstore, the Johns Hopkins Odyssey Program, and the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Frederick Community College, and has taught two previous online courses for WC-ALL.