Paul R. Fleischman
Paul R. Fleischman (born August 4, 1945 in New Jersey) is a retired American psychiatrist, writer and meditation teacher in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. He graduated from the University of Chicago and received his M.D from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He trained in Psychiatry at Yale University. In 1993 the American Psychiatric Association awarded him the Oskar Pfister Award, which is given "to honor outstanding contributions in the field of psychiatry and religion".
Meditation
Paul R. Fleischman learned Vipassana Meditation from S.N. Goenka in India. He sat his first Vipassana course in 1974. In 1987 he became assistant teacher and in 1998 S.N. Goenka appointed him and his wife Susan Fleischman full teachers.
Books
S.N. Goenka assigned Susan and Paul Fleischman the task of speaking to and writing for Western academics and professionals and this is the overall focus of his books. He connects American culture and Western science with Eastern knowledge. He writes for a Western audience as an interpreter of the East, analyzing and explaining meditation and pointing out the common ground of all humans. Several of his books have been translated to other languages.
* The Healing Spirit
:The Healing Spirit is a study on religious issues in psychiatric practice. According to Paul R. Fleischman ten themes cover the relevant phenomena: Witnessed significance, lawful order, affirming acceptance, a calling, membership, release, a worldview, human love, sacrifice, and meaningful death. Each theme is illustrated by exemplary case studies. For this book about psychiatry and religion Paul R. Fleischman received the Oskar Pfister Award.
* Cultivating Inner Peace
:Twenty-eight chapters approaching the different aspects of inner peace. The author presents Kathleen and Juan Mascaró, Helen and Scott Nearing, the Shakers, Walt Whitman, Mahatma Gandhi, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau and others, highlighting their qualities in the quest of inner peace.
* The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism
:An essay on nonviolence, written after the terrorist September 11 attacks in 2001. The author discusses the concept of nonviolence, especially in contrast to pacifism. He analyzes, based on the teachings of the Buddha, nonviolence as a personal attitude on the path of purification of the mind.
* You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things
:A collection of poetry.
* 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 (coauthored by Forrest D. Fleischman)
* An Ancient Path
:A collection of public talks by Paul Fleischman in 2007 (USA, Germany, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Belgium).
* Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant
:A literary, scientific and personal exploration of wonder as a state of mind and a relationship between an individual and the world.
E-Books
* Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific World View
:The author puts Vipassana Meditation in the context of science. S.N.Goenka taught Vipassana Meditation in a practical and pragmatic way, but also postulated that is no conflict between it and the scientific world view. Here Paul R. Fleischman describes the world both from a scientific and a meditational perspective "as an organization of complex, dynamic, and fluid compounds in ceaseless flux"(p.iv).
* A Practical and Spiritual Path
:An introduction to Vipassana Meditation.
* Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
:This essay, based on talks given at different universities, focuses on the common ground of the different existing meditation techniques: "(...)all meditations share a natural function of mind and body which is just waiting there to be cultivated(...)" (p. 8) or more precisely "(...)that meditation is the systematic cultivation of homeostatic regulation of the mind, body, and emotions." (p. 8)
Articles
* Seeing a Guru, The Yale Review, VOLUME LXIV, NO. 1, October 1974
Meditation
Paul R. Fleischman learned Vipassana Meditation from S.N. Goenka in India. He sat his first Vipassana course in 1974. In 1987 he became assistant teacher and in 1998 S.N. Goenka appointed him and his wife Susan Fleischman full teachers.
Books
S.N. Goenka assigned Susan and Paul Fleischman the task of speaking to and writing for Western academics and professionals and this is the overall focus of his books. He connects American culture and Western science with Eastern knowledge. He writes for a Western audience as an interpreter of the East, analyzing and explaining meditation and pointing out the common ground of all humans. Several of his books have been translated to other languages.
* The Healing Spirit
:The Healing Spirit is a study on religious issues in psychiatric practice. According to Paul R. Fleischman ten themes cover the relevant phenomena: Witnessed significance, lawful order, affirming acceptance, a calling, membership, release, a worldview, human love, sacrifice, and meaningful death. Each theme is illustrated by exemplary case studies. For this book about psychiatry and religion Paul R. Fleischman received the Oskar Pfister Award.
* Cultivating Inner Peace
:Twenty-eight chapters approaching the different aspects of inner peace. The author presents Kathleen and Juan Mascaró, Helen and Scott Nearing, the Shakers, Walt Whitman, Mahatma Gandhi, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau and others, highlighting their qualities in the quest of inner peace.
* The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism
:An essay on nonviolence, written after the terrorist September 11 attacks in 2001. The author discusses the concept of nonviolence, especially in contrast to pacifism. He analyzes, based on the teachings of the Buddha, nonviolence as a personal attitude on the path of purification of the mind.
* You Can Never Speak Up Too Often for the Love of All Things
:A collection of poetry.
* 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 (coauthored by Forrest D. Fleischman)
* An Ancient Path
:A collection of public talks by Paul Fleischman in 2007 (USA, Germany, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Belgium).
* Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant
:A literary, scientific and personal exploration of wonder as a state of mind and a relationship between an individual and the world.
E-Books
* Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific World View
:The author puts Vipassana Meditation in the context of science. S.N.Goenka taught Vipassana Meditation in a practical and pragmatic way, but also postulated that is no conflict between it and the scientific world view. Here Paul R. Fleischman describes the world both from a scientific and a meditational perspective "as an organization of complex, dynamic, and fluid compounds in ceaseless flux"(p.iv).
* A Practical and Spiritual Path
:An introduction to Vipassana Meditation.
* Our Best and Most Lasting Gift: The Universal Features of Meditation
:This essay, based on talks given at different universities, focuses on the common ground of the different existing meditation techniques: "(...)all meditations share a natural function of mind and body which is just waiting there to be cultivated(...)" (p. 8) or more precisely "(...)that meditation is the systematic cultivation of homeostatic regulation of the mind, body, and emotions." (p. 8)
Articles
* Seeing a Guru, The Yale Review, VOLUME LXIV, NO. 1, October 1974
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