Three-Year Silent Retreat

James Connor, author of The Perfection of Marketing, and Founder and CEO of The James Group, appears on "Happy Hour" (FOX Business). Connor discusses his plan to give everything away and leaving to embark on a three-year silent Buddhist retreat. To learn more about James Connor, visit perfectionofmarketing.com.

(GOOD.is) In late 2010, in the sun scorched highlands of Arizona's Chirakawa Mountains, some 50 Buddhist students will embark on a retreat. For three years, three months, and three days, they will have no contact with the outside world, and they will not speak a word.

The retreat will be lead by Lama Christie McNally, one of the only women in the world to carry the title of "lama" (or teacher), and Geshe Michael Roach. (The Buddhist degree of geshe is comparable to a doctorate in the United States.) McNally and Roach are the founders of Diamond Mountain, a school some 100 miles from Tucson which is modeled after Buddhist monastic tradition, and which is not far from where the retreat will take place.

Earlier this month, while Lama McNally was visiting the Asian Classics Institute of Los Angeles's Mahasukha Center to teach from and talk about her book, The Tibetan Book of Meditation... More>>

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