Kulananda (Michael Chaskalson) on mindfulness

Kulananda is a member of the same Buddhist organization that I’m ordained into — the Western Buddhist Order. He recently wrote an article for use over on Wildmind, and the email exchanges we had concerning that writing prompted me to take a look at his other activities.

Kulananda’s a lovely guy — very intelligent and kind. He founded a Buddhist business which now has multi-million pound revenues. Although he started the business, Windhorse Trading (now known as Windhorse:Evolution), in a very Buddhist fashion he simply let go of it when it was time for him to move on. Windhorse:Evolution is a very unusual business in that it gives its profits to various charities.

I haven’t seen Kulananda much since I moved to the US and I found that under his “old” name, Michael Chaskalson, he’d launched a site promoting Mindfulness Stress Reduction, in which he has trained. In fact he has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University in Wales.

The site’s well worth a look. It’s nicely designed (by a Buddhist, believe) and there’s a particularly valuable list of articles on mindfulness meditation that’s well worth checking out.

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