Date

03/19/2012 - 03/19/2012

Time

12:30 - 02:30

Geshe Michael Roach has spent most of his adult life as a monk in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, and has been meditating for over 30 years. He has passed more than six years in deep retreat, including a traditional "Great Retreat" of 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days in silence and meditation, from 2000 to 2003, in a hut in the Arizona desert. When asked about any inner achievements and realizations, he prefers the Tibetan approach of not talking about things which cannot be proven to others, saying only that he has been "very fortunate".

He does like to say that his personal practice has made him "the happiest person I know".

Geshe Michael Roach is the first westerner to be awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, after more than 20 years of study in Tibetan monasteries and is the bestselling author of "The Diamond Cutter" in which he describes the principles that helped him build Andin International Diamond Corporation (recently sold to the Warren Buffet group) to annual sales of over USD 100 million.

http://geshemichaelroach.com/index.html

March 19th from 12:30 to 2:30pm at The Bookshop