About this episode

Jeremy David Engels discusses mindfulness, community building, and his experiences on a Buddhist pilgrimage.

Jeremy David Engels, Ph.D., is the Liberal Arts professor of Communication and Ethics at Penn State University. He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga and since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh. He is an award-winning teacher and scholar, and has published numerous books and articles about democracy, community building, deliberation, and peace. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife Anna run a community yoga and meditation studio called Yoga Lab. Jeremy joyfully joins the Plum Village Beloved Community in practicing mindfulness as “the practice of peace.” For more information about Jeremy and other resources, please visit the following links: https://jeremydavidengels.com/ https://zenandtheartofdemocracy.substack.com/ https://www.parallax.org/product/on-mindful-democracy/ https://www.statecollegeyogalab.com/ We discussed: *The Walk for Peace, deliberation, and the need for and the impact of Beloved Community *Tech awareness, teaching mindfulness to university students, and the invitation to be our own anthropologist *Interdependence, a…

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Moore

Guest: Jeremy David Engels

Topics covered

• mindfulness
• Buddhism
• community building
• deliberation
• peace
• interdependence
• pilgrimage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Penn State University, Plum Village Beloved Community, Yoga Lab

Places: State College, Pennsylvania, India, Nepal, Vietnam

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