Paul R. Fleischman

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Paul R. Fleischman (born August 4, 1945 in New Jersey ) is a retired American psychiatrist, meditation teacher in the tradition of SN Goenka, and author. He graduated from the University of Chicago , received his PhD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and taught at Yale University . In 1993 he received the Oskar Pfister Prize of the American Psychiatric Association , which is awarded for "outstanding contributions in the field of religion and psychiatry".

meditation

Paul Fleischman learned Vipassana Meditation from SN Goenka in India, where he took his first course in 1974. In 1987 he became an assistant teacher and in 1998, together with his wife Susan Fleischman, he was appointed teacher by SN Goenka.

Books

SN Goenka gave Paul R. Fleischman the task of speaking to and writing for Western scholars and experts and that is the main focus of his books. He combines American culture and Western science with Indian culture, especially the teachings of the Buddha . He writes for a Western audience as a connoisseur of the East with the intention of working out the common foundations. Some of his books have been translated into other languages, but not into German.

  • The healing spirit
Paul Fleischman received the Oskar Pfister Award for this work.
  • Cultivating Inner Peace
Twenty-eight chapters on the aspects of inner peace. The author introduces a range of personalities including Kathleen and Juan Mascaró , Helen and Scott Nearing , the Shakers , Walt Whitman , Mahatma Gandhi , John Muir , Henry David Thoreau . With these examples, he explains the characteristics that are important for the search for inner peace.
  • The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism
An essay on nonviolence written after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The author discusses the concept of nonviolence, especially when compared to pacifism . He describes non-violence as an inner attitude on a spiritual path, based on the teachings of the Buddha.
  • You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things
A collection of poems.
  • Karma and chaos
A collection of seven essays.
  • Why I Sit
  • The Therapeutic Action of Vipassana
  • Healing the Healer
  • Vipassana Meditation: A Unique Contribution to Mental Health
  • The Experience of Impermanence
  • Touchdown Anicca: An Evocation of Meditation in Everyday Life
  • Karma and Chaos (with his son Forrest Fleischman)
  • An ancient path
A collection of lectures by Paul Fleischman from 2007 (USA, Germany, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Belgium).
  • Wonder - When and Why the World Appears Radiant
A study of wonder as a particular state of mind and as a relationship between man and the world. Paul R. Fleischman first gathers literary witnesses and testimonies of wonder and defines astonishment in psychological terms. He then describes numerous discoveries and paradigm shifts in the natural sciences over the past 150 years. Finally, he draws an overall picture of a world that is capable of marveling at itself.

E-books

  • Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific World View
SNGoenka taught Vipassana meditation in a practical and pragmatic way, but always postulated that there is no contradiction between Vipassana and a scientific worldview. Here Paul R. Fleischman describes the world, from a scientific perspective as well as from meditation, as "the organization of complex, dynamic and flowing connections in a ceaseless flow" (p.iv)
  • A Practical and Spiritual Path
An introduction to Vipassana meditation.
  • Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
In this essay, which arose from lectures at several universities, Paul Fleischman considers the common basis of the various existing meditation techniques: "(...) all meditations share a natural function of mind and body that is just waiting to be cultivated (.. .) "and specifies" (...) that meditation is the systematic cultivation of the homeostatic regulation of mind, body and feelings. "

items

  • Seeing a Guru , The Yale Review, VOLUME LXIV, NO. October 1, 1974

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Oppitz: The psychiatrist Paul Fleischman experiences happiness through Vipassana meditation and communicates this to other people: On the middle path . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed June 27, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Biographical details taken from the books "Karma and Chaos" and "Cultivating Inner Peace"
  3. ^ Oskar Pfister Award | americanpsychiatricfoundation.org. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
  4. ^ The Healing Spirit. Paragon House, New York, 1989
  5. ↑ Cultivating Inner Peace. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 1997, 2004
  6. ↑ The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2002
  7. ↑ cf. The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2002, pp. 27-29.
  8. ↑ You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2005
  9. ↑ Karma and Chaos. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2005
  10. ↑ An Ancient Path. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2008
  11. ^ Wonder - When and Why the World Appears Radiant , SmallBatchBooks.com, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2013, 387 p.
  12. ^ Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific World View. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2009 (ebook), 29p.
  13. ^ A Practical and Spiritual Path. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2015 (ebook)
  14. ↑ Our Best and Most Lasting Gift. Pariyatti Publishing, Onalaska, 2016 (ebook)
  15. ↑ "(...) all meditations share a natural function of mind and body which is just waiting there to be cultivated (...)", p. 8th
  16. ↑ "(...) that meditation is the systematic cultivation of homeostatic regulation of the mind, body, and emotions.", P. 8th

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personal data
SURNAME Fleischman, Paul R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist, meditation teacher, and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey