“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
JUDITH SIMMER-BROWN is a Buddhist teacher and scholar who has committed to joining deep inner awakening to our enlightened nature with the social path of cultivating enlightened society through compassionate and responsive networks and structures of diverse communities and peoples. Her personal and academic work have focused on the inner practices of Tibetan Buddhism that cultivate the heart and mind as well as socially transformative practices such as compassion training, anti-racism activism, and interreligious dialogue. She was a founding faculty member at Naropa University, one of the first fully accredited Buddhist-inspired universities in the U.S, and has served as an Acharya, senior dharma teacher, in Shambhala International. She is active in academic and dharmic circles in many collaborative projects, and is a popular lecturer, retreat teacher, and frequent author of books, chapters, and articles.
