Reflective Meditation

Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company

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With its innovative narrative format, Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer’s Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company sets out a conversation that comes from their deep and heartfelt care for meditators.

A unique, witty and compassionate conversation between authors and reader, Nelly and Linda’s voices are deeply rich, genuine, and touching, resonant with the feminine experience.

Gorgeously written, amid their dialogue the reader is invited to creative craft their own meditation practice, as well as getting a sensitive and intelligent overview of basic early Buddhist teachings.

Meet the Authors

Linda Modaro

Linda Modaro is spiritual director and lead teacher of Sati Sangha, an online meditation community. She also mentors teachers and offers ethical reflecting for Buddhist teachers. Formerly an Acupuncturist and master of Qi Gong, Linda created a bestselling four-part Qi Gong video series, Discovering Chi (1995).

 

Nelly Kaufer

Nelly Kaufer is founder and lead teacher at Pine Street Sangha, a meditation center in Portland, Oregon. A psychotherapist in private practice, she integrates Buddhist psychology into her clinical orientation as well as in continuing education workshops for mental health professionals. Nelly has co-authored several books, including A Woman’s Guide to Spiritual Renewal (Harper, 1994).

Reflective Meditation Reviews

D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer
Midwest Book Review

From considerations of Buddhist concepts of vulnerability and suffering to how meditators grapple with challenging characteristics of existence and experience, Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer craft a dialogue of possibilities that ultimately transcends much of the average reader’s concepts of what meditative practices can reveal…The dialogue portion of the practice is just as essential for understanding and success as the meditative process itself. Conversations about experience, intention, mindfulness, and more permeate insights about the bigger-picture thinking meditation can unfold in a dance of mental origami.

Josh Summers
host of the Everyday Sublime podcast

You may discover, as I did, a gentler, kinder and more ethically integrated doorway into the heart of the Middle Way.

Carol Newhouse
co-author of A Women’s Guide to Spiritual Renewal and Country Lesbians

You are invited into the room as two dharma friends, highly accomplished meditation teachers, engage in intimately reflective conversations on topics such as power, feminism, and the many causes and conditions of their lives.

Sharon Salzberg
author of Lovingkindness and Real Change

How do you share your experience of meditation? Linda and Nelly share their personal journey of meditation and offer ways to relate that completely fit in everyday life.

In the Media

Blog

Midwest Review Talks Reflective Meditation

Original content by Donovan’s Literary Services for their September, 2023 issue.   Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company encourages and provokes conversation and reflective meditation. This offers a different perspective and approach to not just enlightened thinking and feeling, but dialogue. A fine prologue synthesizes the practice’s results by narrating the…

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A Taste of Reflective Meditation

A Taste of Reflective Meditation

If you would like to learn more about the reflective meditation approach, Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer are offering an introduction to reflective meditation in an hour-long Zoom event on the following dates: Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 6-7pm/PDT – Register here and/or Monday, Oct. 23 at 6-7pm/PDT – Register here Linda and Nelly are the…

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Mental Oragami

Review by Diane Donovan Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company encourages and provokes conversation and reflective meditation. This offers a different perspective and approach to not just enlightened thinking and feeling, but dialogue.  A fine prologue synthesizes the practice’s results by narrating the experience of Kim Henderson, who observed her good…

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Muscle of Reflection

By Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer featured on The Secular Buddhist Network on August 8, 2023   Greater awareness develops in three phases in Reflective Meditation. First we meditate, allowing whatever to transpire. Then we take a step back and reflect upon it, finding words often in writing, for what happened. Then we speak it…

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Price of Doing Business

Nelly Kaufer and Linda Modaro creatively collaborate, evolving Reflective Meditation. Both Linda and Nelly founded Buddhist meditation communities. Nelly Kaufer is the author of three books and a licensed psychotherapist, integrating Buddhist psychology into her clinical orientation and providing continuing education to mental health professionals. Linda Modaro began teaching Buddhist meditation in 2008. Prior to…

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Improvising in Practice

In a world often crowded with prescriptive meditation practices, Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer offer a refreshing perspective. “Meditation is not about dictating a precise path; it’s about deep listening,” they emphasize. This candid insight resonates as they shed light on their unique approach during an interview with Josh Summers. Their emphasis on listening to…

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Basic Meditation Instructions

By Nelly Kaufer and Linda Modaro   These basic meditation instructions can be helpful for beginning meditators. If you already have a meditation practice, you can try these instructions, or you can meditate in the ways that you are accustomed. In an open, unstructured meditation approach there are many ways to meditate. You’ll find your…

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Why we love Reflective Meditation

By Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer   Why Linda loves Reflective Meditation Love: 1) an intense feeling of deep affection. 2) a great interest and pleasure in something. It was love at first sight. Love that has lasted through decades. Yet, I know Reflective Meditation and all the other people, places and things that I…

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