The name he was given by his American birth parents was Jeffrey Miller. His family was Jewish. After graduating with honors from college in NY, he traveled throughout Europe and the East. He has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia including the Dalai Lama. His studies included 15 years in India and the Himalayas and eight years in a cloistered Tibetan retreat. He wrote several books a group of 3 called the Awakening Trilogy are favorites.
He currently teaches and lectures around the world at such places as at Esalen, Open Center, Omega Institute, Interface, at universities in the United States and abroad, and at spiritual centers of all kinds. He also contributes regularly to Tricycle magazine, New Age, and Yoga Journal. He currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
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