Marie Mannschatz

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Marie Mannschatz

Marie Mannschatz (born September 11, 1950 in Rausdorf , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a Buddhist meditation teacher and German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Hamburg , Mannschatz moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he studied sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and social work at the state university of applied sciences . She worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Work at Goethe University and, after completing her studies, went to the Institute for Social Psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin as a social worker . At the same time, she began her training as a Gestalt therapist at the Fritz Perls Institute in 1974 and, a few years later, after first stays in California , started her own business as a Gestalt and psychotherapist under the continuous supervision of Hilarion Petzold .

In 1978, she completed her first five weeks of Vipassana - silent retreat led by Jack Kornfield , Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg . In the 1980s she organized retreats for Kornfield , Goldstein and Christopher Titmuss in Germany. In 1993 she began training as a Vipassana meditation teacher in the Theravada tradition with Jack Kornfield , among others with Tara Brach, Eugene Cash and Wes Nisker . From 1998 to 2014 she taught together with Jack Kornfield at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center , among other things, several months of silent retreats and in 2002 published her first book on metta meditation, a meditation technique in which she has now largely specialized, at Theseus Verlag . In 1994 she founded the network "Buddhist Perspectives" together with other meditation teachers, and since 2006 she has been writing a regular column for the magazine "Cause and Effect", which is published in Vienna. Some of her books have been translated into six languages.

Marie Mannschatz teaches in the non-denominational educational center Benediktushof , in the House of Silence , in the Buddha House in Allgäu and in the Beatenberg meditation center.

Publications (selection)

  • 1999: A master from Burma , Dao magazine
  • 2002: 5 Obstacles in Buddhism in the West , Ed. Fronsdal / van House, Arbor Verlag
  • 2002: Loving and letting go , Theseus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89620-178-2
  • 2005: Meditation , Graefe and Unzer Verlag
  • 2007: Buddha's Guide to Happiness , Graefe and Unzer Verlag
  • 2011: With Buddha to inner balance , Graefe and Unzer Verlag,
  • 2012: The practical book on Buddha's instructions , Graefe and Unzer Verlag
  • 2014: Every day a step towards you , Argon Verlag
  • 2015: Buddhas Herzmeditation , Graefe und Unzer Verlag
  • 2019: Completely imperfect , OW Barth Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iding, Doris .: Sources of healing: Conversations with spiritual teachers, doctors and healers . Orig.-issued edition. Theseus-Verl, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89620-328-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Darling, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Rausdorf