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— If one uses this time and experience of being in prison to practice meditation, to practice dharma, then being in prison, even though it is believed you are in prison by outside people, in reality it becomes a retreat for you. —

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

 

Venerable Aileen Barry
LPP Australia Coordinator:
Ven. Choetso runs the day-to-day operations in the office, assigns prisoners to teachers and supports the requests of prisoners.

“My reasons for working as a volunteer and later Co-ordinator for the Liberation Prison Project are based in the knowledge and understanding that in having this opportunity to offer Buddhist methods to these individuals who are living within an environment that I can only imagine in its starkness, pain and suffering I am provided with a constant source of inspiration, a constant reminder of the courage and strength that these people are applying to what is the most difficult job that anyone of us ever faces, going beyond our usual negative habits.”