[Buddha-l] Tovanna: Insight meditation in Israel

[Graeme Lyall AM]

Dear List,
Some friends of mine in Israel who run Bhavana House in Tel Aviv were
interested enough to forward the following information in response to my
forwarding your post.
"Stephen Fulder is a good friend, and for the last five years he teaches
regularly at Bhavana House. The post from Buddha-L confuses between two
groups that Stephen initiated: Tovana (meaning Insight in Hebrew) organizes
2-8 days retreats, most of them led by Israeli teachers and some by foreign
teachers (Stephen Batchelor visited Israel only twice, not as  mentioned in
the post). Their senior teacher and source of inspiration is Christopher
Titmus, and if you know him you can understand the spirit of the group. The
other group is Middle Way, and though there is some overlap between the
participants, it is not a Buddhist group in its essence. This group has
really beautiful peace activities, though (according to my impression) most
of the people taking part are Israeli Jews, while the Israeli Arabs are a
minority. There is a third group that Stephen initiated that was not
mentioned in the post, Akoda. This peace learning community has a study
group that met regularly at Bhavana House for the last three years."

Graeme Lyall AM
President - Amitabha Buddhist Association of New South Wales
President - University Buddhist Education Foundation
Member - Executive Council of the World Fellowship of Buddhists
WEBSITE: http://www.buddhismaustralia.org 
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Tovanna: Insight meditation in Israel

On Friday 27 July 2007 13:52, curt wrote:

> Significant political change will come to Palestine one way or the
> other. The type of dialog that Fulder is involved in will do little to
> bring about actual change, but it does have the potential to greatly
> impact HOW the changes will come about.

It is not at all likely that the tiny number of people doing the workshops 
that Fulder described will have a noticeable effect on the overall
situation. 
The Israeli vipassana folks are painfully aware of that. The workshop
process 
reportedly has a tremendous effect on the individuals who do them. And that 
seems to be enough to keep people interested in keeping the program going.

-- 
Richard 
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