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Cultivating the Mindful Heart

By Dr Radhule Weininger

With Japanese Zen master Souken Danjo With His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Radhule Weininger, Ph.D., is a
clinical psychologist in private
practice, founder of the non-
profit Mindful Heart Programs,
and teacher of deep mindfulness
and compassion practices, and
Buddhist psychology. She began
her meditation studies in 1980
at Black Rock Monastery in Sri
Lanka. For the past 20 years,
she has been mentored in her Compassion,” with a foreword by children and step-children, and a
teaching by Jack Kornfield and in Jack Kornfield was also published dog, Lucy.
her interest in Engaged Buddhism by Shambala Publications.
by Joanna Macy. Her second Radhule is faculty at Pacifica Despite her very busy schedule
book “Heart Medicine: How to Graduate School and, together Radhule was able to respond to
Stop Painful Patterns and Find with her husband Michael Benny Liow’s interview about
Freedom and Peace-at Last,” with Kearney, an author and physician, topics closest to her heart on the
forewords by HH The Dalai Lama she has been teaching about self- practice of mindfulness in one’s
and Joanna Macy, was published care and resilience to caregivers life, and the relationship between
by Shambhala Publications locally and internationally for kindness and compassion with
in December 2021. Her book over twenty years. Radhule mindfulness.
“Heartwork: The Path of Self- and her husband have six adult