- Bo Lozoff
Bo Lozoff is co-founder with his wife
Sita Lozoff of theHuman Kindness Foundation . He also co-founded thePrison-Ashram Project withRam Dass in 1973, and continues with Sita to co-direct that project. Lozoff speaks widely on spiritual issues, including talks in prisons, public talks, sermons, and musical performances.Lozoff has drawn fans as diverse as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who wrote forewords to two of his books, "We're All Doing Time," and "It's a Meaningful Life; it just takes practioe," to Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, who in his last interview in Pittsburgh Magazine (http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml) named Bo Lozoff, along with Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer, as one of his personal heroes.
One program of the Human Kindness Foundation, Kindness House, helped prison parolees by providing them housing and employment. However, that program closed in 2007 amid allegations of sexual misconduct by Lozoff, according to an investigative report by Raleigh's "
Independent Weekly " newspaper. [cite news | first=Matt | last=Saldaña | coauthors= | title=The two faces of Bo Lozoff | date=2008-08-27 | publisher= | url =http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A263212 | work =Independent Weekly | accessdate = 2008-09-01 ] Lozoff and Human Kindness Foundation are in the process of filing a libel and defamation of character lawsuit against the newspaper, claiming the article contained distortions and lies.fact|date=September 2008Lozoff has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the
Chicago Theological Seminary , and received the Temple Award for Creative Altruism from theInstitute of Noetic Sciences .He is the author of We're All Doing Time, It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice, and other books, including a children's book, "The Wonderful Life of a Fly Who Couldn't Fly." Lozoff is also a singer/songwriter with several CDs and performs throughout the U.S.
References
Gordon, Paula, Life Practice. http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/lozoff/
External links
*http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml
*http://mrrogersandme.blogspot.com/2006/06/staring-at-sun.html
* [http://www.universallight.org/open_letter_from_god.htm An Open Letter from God]
* [http://ascentmagazine.com/articles.aspx?articleID=83&page=read&subpage=past&issueID=11 "Life in Community"] an interview with ascent magazine.
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