By Paul B Fleischman, MD, with co-author Forrest D Fleischman

150 pages, 215mm x 141mm
Softback
Pariyatti Publishing, 2005
ISBN 0-9649484-5-1

Basic Information:
The therapeutic benefits of self-awareness have never been more needed than in today’s complex world. In eight poetic and inspiring essays Dr Fleischman explores the interface between psychiatry. science and meditation.

This book may open the reader’s heart to the wellsprings of love and compassion, wisdom and equanimity available to all who develop a deep understanding of the experience of impermanence.

Contents:

• Preface
• Prologue: Sacred Partnership
• 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
• Abouth the Authors
• Contact Information for Vipassana Centers

About the authors:

Forrest D Fleischman wrote the original draft of “Karma and Chaos”for a maths class during his junior year at Amherst Regional High School. He graduated from Stanford University as a member of the Goldman Honors Programme in Earth Systems and received a masters degree from Stanford. He now works for Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics in Eugene, Oregon

Paul B Fleischman, MD has practised psychiatry for more than thirty years. The American Psychiatric Association awarded him the Oskar Pfister award in 1995 for his “important contributions to the humanistic and spiritual side of psychiatric issues” as presented in the book The Healing Spirit (Paragon House, New York, 1989). He is also the author of Cultivating Inner Peace (1997, 2004), The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism (2002), and a collection of poetry, You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things (2005), all from Pariyatti Press. With his wife, Susan, he took his first Vipassana meditation course under the guidance of S N Goenka in India in 1974. In 1987 the Fleischmans were appointed assistant Vipassana teachers, and in 1998 Goenkaji named them teachers. They live in Amherst, Massachusetts.