Paul Weiss began serious practice in Zen as well as tai chi in 1966 and spent years in several training and monastic settings, including in schools and clinics in China. In 1981 he founded the Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he teaches, counsels, and offers meditation retreats and his True Heart, True Mind Intensive. A lifelong poet, he is the author of two collections of poems and essays, You Hold This and Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence: Approaching the Dharma as Poetry.
“In The Dharma of Direct Experience, teacher, poet, and therapist Paul Weiss shares with us the profound wisdom he has discovered. The real gift of this book is not just his wisdom but that he shows us how to search for our own.” * WES “SCOOP” NISKER, dharma teacher, award-winning broadcast journalist, and author of Be *