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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Fleet Mall. Fleet is a long time student of

Chogim Trimperimpeche and is an Acharya or senior mindfulness meditation teacher in the Shambala International Meditation Community.

Fleet founded the Prison Darma Network, now called the Prison Mindfulness Institute in 1989.

While he was in the midst of serving a 30-year sentence with no parole

for drug smuggling at a maximum security federal prison medical facility.

In addition, in 1991, Fleet founded the National Prison Hospice Association,

launching a movement that now includes hospice programs

in over 75 state and federal prisons.

Fleet Mall is the author of the book

Darma in Hell, the prison writings of Fleet Mall

and leads prison programs, meditation retreats,

chaplaincy and hospice trainings, activist trainings, bearing witness retreats and street retreats throughout the world.

He's also the founder and executive director of the Peace Maker Institute and he's

co-founder of the UPAIA Chaplaincy Program. In this episode of Insights at

The Edge, Fleet Mall and I spoke about how the only way out is through,

and how this teaching helped Fleet deal with regret and fueled his focus to create as much good as possible while he was in prison.

We also talked about the teaching of basic goodness

and how Fleet tested about the Teaching of Basic Goodness

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