Bodhipaksa (Author of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha, 2018)

Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes  Bodhipaksa (Author of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha, 2018) to the Show! 

• www.bodhipaksa.com
• www.wildmind.org

Bodhipaksa was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1961 and became interested in meditation and Buddhism while in high school. He became a practicing Buddhist while he was completing a degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the University of Glasgow. After graduation he made a switch to community education, in which he helped bring educational opportunities to single parents and at-risk youth in an impoverished town outside of Glasgow. From there he moved to being the director of Dhanakosa Retreat Center for four years and later was the director of the Edinburgh Buddhist Center.

He completed an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Buddhism and business at the university of Montana. As a result of this he started Wildmind (www.wildmind.org), which is an online meditation resource. That in turn led to him publishing around a dozen guided meditation CDs, one of which was the best-selling meditation title on Amazon for three years. In 2002 he moved to New Hampshire, where he still lives. He has two children, who are adopted from Ethiopia.

Bodhipaksa has published many guided meditation albums and several books, the most recent of which is “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha,” which comes out on November 6, 2018. He’s currently under contract to write a book on self-compassion, to be published in 2019.