Mirabai bush biography children

On Being with Krista Tippett. Mirabai Bush works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, she is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers.

Her life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.

Mirabai is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative .

Mirabai Bush is called in to work with educators and judges and social activists and soldiers. I have been more and more willing to take the risk to offer those practices even in very secular working situations recently than I used to be, because people really want to be loved, it turns out. It always edges on sounding like a Hallmark card.

But I have found it to be very powerful if you can find the right way to do it.

She is an organic gardener in Western Massachusetts and the mother of one adult son, Owen.

We spoke in Tippett: How would you start to describe the spiritual background of your childhood, of your early life? Bush: Well, my early life — I was brought up Catholic. When I was 7, my father left, and my mother had to go to work. This was right after the war. I have to say the Second World War. They were both across the street from us.

So I was in church every morning for my whole childhood.