Mirabai Bush Contemplation, Life, and Work
b'Co-creator of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. \\u201cThere is a calming, quieting, centering practice that leads to insight in every tradition.\\u201d Contemplative practice and social change. Mindful emailing. Creative, relational, ritual, cyclical.\\nMirabai Bush works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, she is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google\\u2019s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush\\u2019s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.\\nMirabai Bush co-founded the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is the author of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and has written two books with Ram Dass: Compassion in Action and Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying.\\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.'