Loving-Kindness: Buddhist and Is My Job Antidote to Hatred & Fear Transgender “Wrong Livelihood”? Train Your Mind Transform Your Brain The Science of Buddhist Meditation The Dalai Lama Richard Davidson Daniel Goleman + Prison Dharma: Finding Peace at Rikers Island The radical Buddhism of Rev. angel Kyodo williams Why the U.S. Needs Love CONTENTS FEATURES SPECIAL SECTION TRAIN YOUR MIND, TRANSFORM YOUR BRAIN: THE SCIENCE OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION 34 DISRUPTING SUFFERING AT RIKERS ISLAND No one escapes suffering in America’s most notorious jail. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong profiles Justin von Bujdoss, the 52 HOW MEDITATION CHANGES YOUR BRAIN— first-ever Buddhist chaplain at Rikers Island. AND YOUR LIFE When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they 40 SHIT HAPPENS IN FOLSOM PRISON discovered Buddhist meditation can alter deep-seated Tony Bernhard isn’t afraid to get real when he teaches in Folsom traits in our brain patterns and character. Daniel Prison’s Psychiatric Services Unit, where men inside cages learn Goleman and Richard Davidson tell the story of this to meditate. revolutionary breakthrough in our understanding of how meditation works. 45 BUDDHISM BEHIND BARS Many dedicated volunteers offer Buddhist teachings and 58 MIND & BRAIN: THE TWO SCIENCES practices in prisons across the U.S. The Dalai Lama explains why conventional science isn’t enough—we also need the inner science of mind 46 LOVE AND JUSTICE that Buddhist meditators specialize in. “I just want people to be liberated”: John DeMont on the radical Buddhism of Rev. angel Kyodo williams. 62 WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T While people have believed for thousands of years 68 WHY AMERICA NEEDS LOVE that meditation works, the search for scientific proof Love doesn’t mean we have to agree, but we don’t have to be is just beginning. The team at Greater Good Science enemies. 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SOME YEARS AGO I was talking with Sojun Mel Weitsman, thought for a moment, and said a third were good people, a one of the senior figures in American Zen. I noted to Weitsman third weren’t, and the rest were in the middle. About the same Roshi, whom I had just met, that many longtime Buddhists as humanity overall, it seemed to me. weren’t sure the practice was working for them. So we Buddhists can’t take a “holier than thou” attitude, nei- “How would they know?” was his tart reply. ther personally nor collectively. But spiritual practice, like life, He was right. It is hard to know what effect spiritual practice is a never-ending work in progress. The standard is not perfec- is having on us—whether it’s really making us kinder and wiser tion, but the kind of day-to-day human goodness exemplified people. We may never know. by some of the people you’ll meet in this issue. We often think of spiritual realization as a kind of lightning Consider the heart and courage of Justin von Bujdoss and bolt, dramatic and obvious. It can happen that way, but more Tony Bernhard, doing their best to bring some love and help often it’s said to be like walking through the fog.