Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks so much for listening today.

So I am really happy to introduce you to another practitioner, a Dharma brother. Donald Altman, who's a psychotherapist, award-winning writer, former Buddhist monk and teacher. He served as an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling and is currently an adjunct faculty member of the interpersonal neurobiology program at Portland State University.

Donald has a wealth of experience in the Dharma, teaching mindfulness, and he's with us today

to talk Turkey on Mindfulness Plus. Hi, Donald.

Oh, hi, Thomas.

Great to be here.

Thank you for taking the time, Donald.

Well, I'm always happy to talk about mindfulness.

Indeed, as am I.

Yeah, it's been a passion of mine.

I can see it's a passion of yours as well and like minds get together right

absolutely yeah which brings us to this conversation so for for the guests on mindfulness

plus for the for the for the audience those who don't know you yet don't know you yet donald could

you just say a little bit about what brought you into the practice whenever that was and just give us a sense of that?

Well, I think I was a spiritual seeker for a long time and I'd always been drawn to different readings like Krishna Murti.

I used to love reading Krishna Mdy, and different Hindu teachings.

And I think it came a time in my life, and I think that often we experience suffering or pain in different ways.

And I think I was seeking for a deeper understanding of why certain patterns were repeating in my own life,

certain painful patterns. And I had an opportunity to study with a well-known teaching monk

from Burma by the name of Uthi Linanda. And after I met him, he had such this incredible sense of compassion and openness.

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