Loving Kindness/Friendliness Meditation

Mary Jo has meditated over 70 years in the Christian, yoga, and Buddhist traditions. She is a religious sister (sfcc), a secular Carmelite (ocds), and also vowed to the Theravadan Buddhist nuns’ precepts. She raised eight children, two of them adopted, and has 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She has taught meditation in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia since 1987. She is a psychology and religious studies professor emerita at Minnesota State University at Mankato, offers spiritual guidance, and writes and lectures on spirituality. She has seven published books and numerous published professional articles. She has brought meditation into prisons as a volunteer, and now lives with two beloved cats.