Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist.
He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok.
Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio – as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter.
He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok.
He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography.
Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy.
He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee – where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures.
He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome.
His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects — including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur.
His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...
A simple collection of clear reflections on basic Buddhist philosophy.
The Path of Meditation includes an overview of the path & basic methodology of meditation; what & who you will meet as you go; body & mind, past, beliefs & emotions; the permanent guests of the mind, the 11 eternal fires of Burmese Buddhism & more.
The book is divided into eight sections with 48 concise pieces — all written simply & clearly, in a way that is thoughtful & explanatory & built around analogy & rhyme.
Individual pieces include: the path & pitfalls of meditation; on concentration & resistance; tools to develop; how your body & mind stay together; how to split them; on busy thoughts & wandering minds; making friends with difficult memories; accepting experiences; emotions like thunderstorms & floods; the deepest, darkest vaults & buried beliefs; removing the permanent guests of the mind; & extinguishing the fires of desire, delusion, despair & more.
Quotes from the Buddha, Hluang Pau Viriyang Sirinthro, Ajarn Buddhādasa Bhikkhu, Dr. Pramahachanya Khongchinda, Aung San Suu Kyi & an artist named Phu.
Includes photos of Buddha statues from temples in Bangkok's Yaowarat Chinatown neighborhood — at Wat Mangkorn Kamalawat [aka the Dragon Lotus temple], Wat Traimitr, Wat Kusoln Samakorn, Wat Uphai Raja Bamrung, Wat Mongkoln Samakhom, Wat Chakrawat, Wat Pathum Kongkha & Wat Bampen Cheen,
Willy Thorn is an artist, copywriter & meditation instructor in Bangkok. He was trained thru the renowned Willpower Institute of Wat Dhamma Mongkoln.
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Título : Buddhism 103
EAN : 9781005731083
Editorial : Willy Thorn
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