Anthony Stultz

Sensei Anthony Stultz is the Founder and Director of the Blue Mountain Lotus Society [http://www.bmls.org] , a non-profit Buddhist organization located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is an influential figure in a new school of Buddhism known as the Navayana, or "new vehicle" that has roots primarily in Mahayana Buddhism through Zen, Shin and Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhism but is unique in that it has returned to the roots of Classical Buddhism's focus on social engagement. It is through this foundation that Sensei Stultz has developed The Four Directions, a new form of intervention that uses the language of psychology to illustrate the dharma teachings of Classical Buddhism. After completing graduate school at the Episcopal Divinity School and studying Buddhist Philosophy at Harvard University he served as a Chaplain at the Penn State University Hershey Medical Center. Sensei Stultz is also an accomplished author of SoulQuest: Zen Lessons for the Journey of Life (2000), The Book of Common Meditation (2003), Free Your Mind (2007), The Invisible Sun (2007), and Mere Buddhism (2008). He is a contributing author to Engaged Buddhism in the West (2000) as well as Action Dharma (2003). He also runs the Center for Mindfulness Counseling, integrating Eastern and Western counseling techniques. Sensei Tony has been serving as a Buddhist minister and counselor for over twenty years and is an accomplished public speaker on mindfulness practices and liberation teaching. Sensei Tony has recently published his first book titled Free Your Mind: The Four Directions of an Awakened Life and is also very influential in the American Buddhist movement.

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